News & Notes - 10/12/2011
News & Notes from Lynn Hill, Joe Kinder, Sasha DiGiulian, Reno climbing walls, 50 year anniversaries and more...
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News & Notes - 9/14/2011
News & Notes from Sasha DiGiulian, Ben Spannuth, Dai Koyamada and a slew of upcoming access related events...
News & Notes - 8/17/2011
News & Notes from Jonathan Siegrist, 5.14d and V14 in a week by Jorg Verhoeven, a hard mult-pitch gets repeated and MUCH more...
News & Notes - 8/3/2011
A few lingering pieces of News & Notes left over from my recent vacation...
News & Notes - 6/1/2011
News & Notes from Ethan Pringle, Nina Caprez, Carlo Traversi, Jimmy Webb, potential problems with the GriGri 2 and much more...
News & Notes Bonus Edition - 4/29/2011
A few bonus News & Notes from Emily Harrington, Dorothea Karalus, Enzo Oddo and more...
News & Notes - 4/27/2011
A few News & Notes from Nik Berry, Daniel Woods, Adam Ondra, the Petzl Roc Trip China, a new iPhone app guidebook for Joshua Tree and more
News & Notes - 4/12/2011
News & Notes from Nina Caprez, Cedric Lachat, Kevin Jorgeson, Fred Nicole and much more...
News & Notes - 3/22/2011
News & Notes from Adam Ondra, Daniel Woods and much more...
News & Notes - 2/23/2011
A smorgasbord of News & Notes to get you through your Wednesday
News & Notes - 1/25/2011
Has it really been almost 2 months since we last did this??? Hopefully this massive round-up of News & Notes will get me back in your good graces...
News & Notes - 11/03/2010
News & Notes from Rifle, the Red River Gorge, Switzerland, the Petzl Roc Trip and more...
News & Notes - 10/05/2010
News & Notes from Rifle, Smith Rocks, Mt. Evans, Alex Honnold, Jamie Emerson, Phil Schaal and more...
News & Notes - 09/21/2010
News & Notes from the European Championships, Alex Honnold, Steve Wempler and more
News & Notes – 9/8/2010
News & Notes from Adam Ondra, Brent Perkins, Phil Schaal, Black Diamond and MUCH more...
Weekend News
A few notable sends that caught my eye recently and sad news from the Alps...
News & Notes - 08/16/2010
Youth seems to be the theme of this edition of News & Notes...
News & Notes – 08/03/2010
News & Notes from Dave Graham, Alex Honnold, the Pou brothers, another new 5.14 in Utah, more World Cups coming to North America and more...
Brief News & Notes - 6/28/2010
A few News & Notes from over the weekend...
News & Notes – 6/22/2010
News & Notes from Joe Kinder, Shawn Raboutou, Jimmy Webb and more...
News & Notes - 05/26/2010
News & Notes from Jonathan Siegrist, Paige Claasen, Mike Foley, Alex Honnold and more...
News & Notes – 05/05/2010
A special Access edition of News & Notes with additional news from Adam Ondra, Jimmy Webb, Dai Koyamada and more...
News & Notes - 4/14/2010
News & Notes from Daniel Woods, Chuck Fryberger, Paul Robinson, the Teva Mountain Games and more...
News & Notes – 3/29/2010
News & Notes about an 8 year-old sending V10, a new climbing gym, route development and much more...
News & Notes – 3/16/2010
News & Notes from Alex Honnold, Natasha Barnes, GP Salvo, Dean Potter, Yvon Chouinard and more...
News & Notes – 1/27/2010
News & Notes from the OR Winter Market, Chris Sharma, Iker Pou and more
News & Notes – 1/11/2010
News & Notes from Matt Wilder, Paul Robinson, Daniel Woods and MORE. Updated 1/12/10.
News & Notes – 12/29/2009
News & Notes from Jimmy Webb, Charlie Barrett, Carrie Cooper, Fred Nicole and more...
News & Notes – 11/17/2009
A few News & Notes as I get caught up from nearly 2 weeks away from a computer
News & Notes – 10/16/2009
News & Notes to wrap up the week...
News & Notes – 10/06/2009
News & Notes from Dave Graham, Tommy Caldwell, the Hubers, Adam Ondra and much more...
News & Notes – 09/15/2009
News from Jon Cardwell, Adam Ondra and Paul Robinson. Notes from Chris Sharma, the Reel Rock Tour and more...
News & Notes – 08/28/2009
Sport climbing news from France and Colorado and a slew of notes...
News & Notes – 08/07/2009
News on a new V15 from Nalle Hukkataival, several notes and a few good videos
News & Notes – 07/20/2009
Here at ClimbingNarc.com the summer climbing season at areas like Mt. Evans and RMNP is one I usually look forward to quite a bit as it usually provides good news fodder. Unfortuna...
News & Notes – 07/13/2009
A few News & Notes for your Monday...
News & Notes – 06/24/2009
News from Joe Kinder, Brad Weaver, Chuck Odette, Adam Ondra, Andy Raether and more
News & Notes – 05/20/2009
News & Notes from Matt Wilder, Southern Illinois, Black Diamond and more...
News & Notes – 05/07/2009
News & Notes returns...
News & Notes – 3/13/2009
News & Notes about Fred Nicole, Lynn Hill, Mike Doyle's unexpected send, V13s for Nalle Hukkataival and more.
News & Notes - 2/27/2009
Climbing news & notes from Chris Schulte, Jacinda Hunter, Ty Landman and more...
News & Notes – 2/13/2009
A summary of the past few weeks worth of News & Notes including the must see video from the Australian bolt failure tragedy.
News & Notes – 1/30/2009
Since I usually forget half the items I want to use for the News & Notes posts, I started posting them as I find them on the top of the front page of Climbingnarc.com. To avoid clu...
Friday News & Notes – 1/16/09
Not a whole lot going on this past week on the spray front. Here are a few interesting links to help get you to the weekend: Sonnie Trotter has an excellent discussion taking place...
News & Notes: 1/6/2009
News & Notes from Shawn Diamond, Alex Johnson, Matt Segal, Matt Wilder, Tim Clifford and much more...
Not Much News, Mostly Just Notes – 12/19/2008
Since no other news this week looks that impressive compared with 5.15 sport climbing FAs, here are a few links.
News & Notes – 12/08/2008
A few links for your perusal on this Monday...
News & Notes – 10/29/2008
News from Kevin Jorgeson, James Webb, Daniel Woods and Justin Alarcon. Notes on DPM, RRG Accidents and more.
News & Notes - 10/1/2008
Rocktoberfest is coming soon to the Red River Gorge, Ty Landman repeats Sharma's Practice Of The Wild, James Pearson climbs E12, the Colorado Bouldering guidebook controversy and m...
News & Notes - 9/11/2008
News & Notes from Alex Honnold, Way Lake Bouldering and several big upcoming events.
News & Notes - 8/4/2008
News & Notes from bouldering strongmen, a Mt. Evans bouldering guidebook in the works, the Fortress Of Solitude and more...
News & Notes: Get Outta Town Edition
News & Notes including Dave MacLeod, Buttermilks bouldering video, the 5.13ds of Rifle, Ty Landman and more...
News & Notes – 06/11/08
News & Notes on Sonnie Trotter, Ethan Pringle, tribute to Todd Skinner, the Caldwell's and more...
News & Notes 6/5/08
News & Notes on the Dosage 5 premier, videos from Wade David & Jamie Emerson and more...
News & Notes - 05/13/2008
I have another interesting topic for discussion tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few links for your perusal: If you enjoy salivating over the posts at the Betabase blog , y...
News & Notes - 5/8/2008
Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks: Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his r...
News & Notes: Spring Break Followup
A bit of followup on last week's Spring Break edition of News & Notes . Here are a few more links for you to check out: Many of you are no doubt following Jamie Emerson's updates f...
News & Notes: Spring Break Edition
A few general bits of climbing news along with several links to check out what people were up to over Spring Break: Early last month, Dean Potter completed a 40 foot roof project h...
News & Notes – 3/19/2008
Climbing news: Rastaman Vibration Sit pictures, Midnight Express repeated, Steve House in Argentina, Steve Dieckhoff's passing, Yosemite Bouldering, Ty Landman FAs and Pete Whittak...
News & Notes - 3/10/2008
Just an update on Beth Rodden's new 5.14 trad route Meltdown . Big Up Productions was there filming her work on the route for the upcoming Dosage 5. Big Up shares their first hand...
News & Notes: Friday Links
Here are a few links for your Friday reading pleasures: A good post on the various ways to manage your rope(s) on multi-pitch routes Canada's Tour de Bloc bouldering event in Frede...
News & Notes - 2/21/08
Matt Birch recently repeated The Mandala Sit Start (V14) at the Buttermilks outside of Bishop, CA. By my count this is the problem's 7th ascent. Wade David has photos posted from b...
News & Notes - 2/6/08
James Pearson, who is better known on this site for having flashed 3 V13 boulder problems , recently returned to the Gritstone of the UK to establish a new E10 route on the Cratcli...
News & Notes - 1/31/08
Recent climbing news including: Sharma & Harrington are national champions, Daniel Woods repeating V14 in a day, Hayden Miller climbing at Ute pass and news from Bernd Zangerl.
News & Notes - Mass Update
Thanks to James for compiling this massive list of updates. In this update you will find a lot of news on Dai Koyamada's exploints in the Frankenjura. Also news from Daniel Woods,...
News & Notes - Bouldering Edition
A summary of recent bouldering activity including more repeats of Trice in Boulder, Bishop bouldering, hard first ascents in Idaho and scary highball first ascents in Hueco Tanks....
News & Notes - 11/7/07
I realize lately that I have been spending too much time blogging about myself and not enough time talking about all the action going down elsewhere so here goes nothing: During hi...
News & Notes! 10/8/2007
I've spent way too much time spraying about myself lately and not nearly enough time spraying about the accomplishments of others. Here is my attempt to make up for this fact: Andr...
News & Notes - 9/17/2007
Let's get back to the spray... Paul Robinson made the 2nd ascent of Harry Roberton's Both Sides of the Spectrum (V12). He also put a new V9 highball at Camp Dick which he called Th...
News & Notes - 08/27/2007
As usual, I go away from a computer for a weekend and the sendtrain begins... The big news is that Paul Robinson has made the 3rd ascent of Jade (V15 for now) in RMNP. The day afte...
Midweek News - 08/22/07
Here are a few interesting stories to check out Splitterchoss has a couple of cool tidbits on climbing at Rifle. First is a post about a feature story done about climbing at Rifle...
News & Notes - 8/20/2007
A scary story that seems to be coming to a positive resolution is that of Ryan Sewell contracting the Hantavirus virus while climbing in Rifle, CO. Unfortunately both Ryan and his...
News & Notes - 8/6/2007
As usual, I go out of town and a ton of things happen: Last week Ty Landman visited Squamish and did what he normally does, which is climb hard problems. He did 1 V13 and a couple...
More News & Notes - 7/30/2007
I really dropped the ball this morning when I failed to mention a few more tidbits to check out: An updated version of the already phenomenal guidebook to sport climbing at the Red...
News & Notes - 7/30/2007
Paul Robinson is back from his trip to California with Daniel Woods . I would have to believe he is a little bit disappointed he did not send problems like Black Mamba (V13) or Som...
News & Notes - 7/23/2007
A few quick hitters: Jon Cardwell has been having a good run out in Europe. In the past month he has done 4 .14b's. Most recently he completed La Chronique de la Haine at Ceuse. Al...
News & Notes - 7/16/2007
16 year old Erik Lopez recently climbed two .14d's in one day at Rodellar, Spain. He climbed Ali-Hulk and made the second ascent of Dave Graham's Los Borrachos del Mascun . Not a b...
News & Notes - 7/2/2007
Here are some tidbits and things to check out: Dave Graham recently added another 5.14d to his impressive list of sends when he sent Ali-Hulk at Rodellar, Spain. Infamous Ali-hulk...
News & Notes - 6/25/2007
Finally back with it...somewhat... Of course the big news while I was gone was Daniel Woods fulfilling another portion of my earlier predictions when he did the first ascent of the...
News & Notes - 6/4/2007
Back from rock climbing in Iowa of all places... Joe Kinder and Jon Cardwell both repeated Andy Raether's route Kuru 5.14c at Rifle, CO. Joe commented that the route is 45% manufac...
News & Notes Returns! 5/29/2007
More on the weekend later but here is some spray from the past week: Helping me get my previous predictions off on the right foot, Ty Landman made the 2nd ascent of Ode To The Mode...
News & Notes - 5/14/2007
Big news of last week was Daniel Woods making the 2nd ascent of Suspension of Disbelief (V13 or V14) at Eldorado Canyon, CO. Dave Graham called it V13 but Daniel felt it was harder...
News & Notes - 5/7/2007
Andreas Bindhammer has made the 4th ascent of La Rambla Original (5.15a) at Siurana, Spain. Ethan Pringle and Issac Caldiero recently repeated Ben Moon's V13 testpiece in Little Co...
News & Notes - 4/30/2007
This will be an all Red River Gorge news week out of respect for the fire at Red River Outdoors : There is a nice writeup about what might have happened at climbing.com . There are...
News & Notes - 4/23/2007
After a bit of a hiatus, here is some spray: Jamie Emerson sent Circadian Rhythm (V13) at Poudre Canyon. Video is already available here . In the past few weeks Daniel Woods has se...
News & Notes - 3/26/2007
Here are a few news & notes from the past week: As I mentioned earlier , Paul Robinson had a pretty good day at the Buttermilks when he sent 2 v14's in one day. Dave Graham redpoin...
News & Notes - 3/19/2007
A few tidbits from the past week: Another week another FA for Dave Graham . This time it is the FA of a V13 boulder problem he has called Do or Die at Cogul, Spain. You can also re...
News & Notes - 3/12/2007
Ethan Pringle has repeated Fred Nicole's Eperanza (V14) at Hueco Tanks, TX. Fred made the first ascent back in 2001 Stewart Watson has repeated Ben Moon's Voyager (V13). You can se...
News & Notes - 3/5/2007
As I noted in my review of the "climbing" movie Specimen, the movie is not that great. Turns out Rock & Ice was even less generous in their latest issue. They give the movie 1.5 St...
News & Notes - 2/26/2007
Not much going on the past week, here are a few quick hitters: Ty Landman flashed the first ascent of Freak Brothers II (V10/11) at Boulder Canyon, CO. It was quickly repeated by h...