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Ueli Steck comes close to an El Cap onsight with Golden Gate (5.13b, 41 pitches).

ClimbingNarc interviews Shawn Diamond and pimpin and crimpin interviews Phil Schaal.

The CragBaby provides a trip beta guide to bouldering in Bishop, California.

Alex Johnson made the FFA of Whispers of Wisdom (V10) at Emerald Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Rocky Mountain National Park now requires bear canisters.

The Organic Climber is a new blog about climbing, raw foods, vegetarianism and healthy living. Should be an interesting combination of topics for climbers.

The Mid-Atlantic Climbers association now has a blog.

Results from 2009 Melloblocco in Italy.

Rockgrrl discusses how to marry a climber.

New hard trad and sport lines in North Carolina put up by Dave Sharratt and Pat Goodman.

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The money the park receives is part of the $750 million federal package to improve the national park system. A full list of the projects is located here.

I wonder if any of this work will be done for the summer alpine bouldering season?

(via Daily Camera and Denver Business Journal)

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I attended the Mt. Washington Valley Ice Festival numerous times and had a blast. The ice climbing there was fantastic, with opportunities for superb multi-pitch routes, mixed climbs, and even top-roping.

When I moved to southwest Virginia to be closer to the New River Gorge, the one thing I missed was the availability of ice climbing in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Hampshire. It has now been years since I’ve climbed ice.

Now that I’m in Colorado I’m anxiously awaiting the upcoming ice season, though I think I’ll need to upgrade most of my gear (I hope my wife is not reading this!)

As a preview to the upcoming season, Splitter Choss has a post up on the status of some of the Colorado ice climbing areas including Crested Butte, Ouray, and Rocky Mountain National Park.

If you’re looking forward to ice climbing this year, there are several resources to update you on the winter climbing conditions. Mountain Project has conditions reports that can be tailored to areas you choose. NEice.com provides conditions via a user forum for most of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Eastern Canada. For both US and international climbing area conditions, the American Alpine Institute blog provides a weekly post on updated conditions. For Colorado specific conditions, you can check iceclimbingcolorado.com‘s current condition reports. Finally, Chauvin Guides provides a detailed look at conditions in New Hampshire with pictures and descriptions.

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Jamie Emerson reports that Angie Payne made the first female ascent of European Human Being (V12) in Rocky Mountain National Park.

pimpin’ and crimpin’ has some additional photos of Angie on the problem from a prior attempt.

Finally, the ClimbingNarc gives us full coverage of not only Angie Payne, but also of Alex Johnson’s recent send of Clear Blue Skies (V12) and Alex Puccio’s send of The Marble SDS (V11/12) all in Rocky Mountain National Park.

ClimbingNarc also makes a great point about reporting “first female ascents.” As women continue to push grades as hard as men, hopefully we can eventually stop designating between the two. I’ve been as guilty on this blog as everyone else in covering this, but the sooner it becomes simply about the climber and their significant achievement, regardless of gender, the better.

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Rocky Mountain National Park may get wilderness protection

Dream in Vertical takes us on a Bishop bouldering trip with tons of pics

Barbara Zangerl makes first female ascent of Pura Vida (8A+/B) in Magic Wood, Switzerland

Daniel Woods completes new 8c in Magic Wood

Check CAMP Tricams for possible problems

Peter Beal‘s essay on climbing past 40 on FrontRangeBouldering.com

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For a sample of the quality posts, check out this one on bouldering impacts in Rocky Mountain National Park.

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