The heat of summer put much of my Eldo wish list on hold, chasing us to shade and higher altitudes. Now that the 90 degree days have passed, the confounding sandstone on the massive Redgarden Wall is again inviting. Numerous beautiful, historical, heady 5.11s sit rarely touched, awaiting the next challenger. Among these are Le [continue reading]
Sep 282011
Sep 192011
This weekend marked a unique contrast of climbing. Friday and Saturday we were cranking away on crimps and pockets on Shelf Road’s characteristic sport routes while on Sunday, The Yellow Spur beckoned us skyward with pitch after varied pitch of quality. Doug captured a few fantastic images of our stormy time at Shelf. Check out [continue reading]
A week ago I tweaked my back and have been fighting the pain since. Over the weekend it felt good enough to check off one of the Boulder locals must-do’s that has thus far evaded my list: Soloing the 2nd Flatiron Ron, Grant, Ryan and I had a good time in beautiful weather climbing the [continue reading]
Sep 052011
*Editors Note: This is a guest contribution from Tyler Scheer. All photos, the awesome video and text are from Tyler. It’s 6:30. In the morning. The sun is barely up, and for some reason my alarm is going off. I do what any reasonable person would, and hit the snooze button for twenty minutes. Adam’s [continue reading]
Aug 302011
With so much amazing climbing around Boulder, my priorities usually don’t involve lengthy projects. A number of the routes I’ve had success on this year have required around five total attempts over the course of 2-3 days. Most of those routes I’ve chosen because they are compelling lines worth multiple visits. But in the back [continue reading]
Aug 072011
The Rocky Mountain bouldering season is in full swing and with Boulder still baking we’d be crazy not to join in the fun. Following up our trip last weekend to Upper Chaos, this time we decided to visit the Lower Chaos boulders. The photos above (D-Rock) show a crux move on Skipper G (V8) at [continue reading]
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