Instead of your traditional, I sent, we sent web log from the weekend, here is a collection of photographs that do the “Boulder Bubble” justice.
Friday night sushi on Pearl Street
Prana fashion show: Jonny Hork looking nice and Cuban
A sandy runway…
Jonny’s patented french blow. He still can’t turn left.
Saturday: Jonny Hork and Ben Spannuth on the ice at Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park
Kind Traverse (V11) (Photo Jonny Hork)
Crux on Kind Traverse (Photo: Jonny Hork)
Herman loving Park season…
No fear for this young bird while eating out of Jonny’s hand…
Rocky Mountain on Saturday was great and the conditions at Emerald Lake remain perfect. I went to the majority of Emerald Lake Boulders to check snow levels and this is the status:
Kind Traverse (v11) / Super Kind (V12) / Kind (V5) – perfect and topoutable.
Whispers of Wisdom (V10) – Ideal for climbing and the topout is bone dry.
Storm Shadow (V10/12) – With 5 minutes of digging it is climbable.
Hi Fi (V11) / Conquest (V12) / Large and Real Large (V9/10) / Tommy’s Arete (V8) – great condition and climbable, Tommy’s might need a 3 minute dig.
Veritas (V9/11/12) – Ben, Ryan S., and Ryan Y. cleaned the topout and it is climbable.
Next weekend we are planning on visiting Evans for some Area B searching and hopefully a solid effort on City Walls of Dying Dreams (V10), an old Cameron Cross highball. Despite the video being very poor quality, you can still get a feel for the height and beauty of this line, as well as the consequences of falling high on the boulder. When Johnny G. falls in the video he breaks his leg. Hopefully the snow will be nice and deep making for a flat landing. Looking forward to it!
The summer in Boulder is coming to an end. THANK GOD. The drama and hype of Colorado summers can wear on a boulderer and this summer has been nothing short of CRAZY. With the season coming to an end, climbers are heading back to their respective states and school is in full swing. As a [...]
Preparing the crux sloper on Never Never Land (All photos courtesy of Ryan Silven) SUPER CHAOS! is loaded with projects and among the hundreds of new lines waiting to be put up was a gem of a bloc that needed to be done. I first laid eyes on this tall and intimidating beauty a few [...]
The boulder, the myth, the legend… Full Chaos (V10) does exist and I climbed it! Flashed it in fact. I have wanted to climb on this “secret” boulder for a long time and had always heard stories about its quality and how difficult it is to find. Ryan Silven and I made it our mission [...]
Everyone is naming boulder fields these days so we have taken it upon ourselves to do the same. SUPER CHAOS! is where the new goods are located and you have to say it loud or type it in all caps with an exclamation point… It’s the only way people will know that you are talking [...]
Its here! The final installment of the Pogo series, Chapter 3! The finale includes Carlo’s discovery of the Pogo with the help of a fresh set of new Pusher holds. Carlo puts up the “dream pogo” boulder problem and demonstrates perfect form. My favorite part is what we called the pogo matrix, where Carlo goes [...]
Chapter 2 of the Pogo video has arrived! Day two of the three day Pogo extravaganza will give you the chapter we have dubbed “Discovery”. Jonny Hork and Nic Sherman as scientists is quite priceless and I’m certain we will do more work with them in the future. Jonny’s rant at the end is one [...]
March 15th, 2010 at 2:22 PM
I really like all those pictures. MORE PLEASE!