Utah Trip Part 2: Joe's Valley To Moab
Rest days from Joe's Valley
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Utah Trip Part 1: Joe's Valley
A few words and pictures from my first visit to Joe's Valley, UT
Ten Sleep
A few words on our trip to Ten Sleep and other stops out west earlier this month
2010 Hueco Rock Rodeo Photo Gallery
Merrick Ales has an excellent gallery of photos from the 2010 Hueco Rock Rodeo up on his website that includes plenty of shots of comp winners Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio. There's...
Kentucky Champagne
Sandstone and Bourbon...
Quick On The Draw 2010
Pictures and a few thoughts after attending the annual competition at my local gym for the 10th time
Photo Friday: Hueco Tanks & RRG
A few photos from Hueco Tanks and the Red River Gorge
Worth The Wait
It only took me 10 years, but I finally climbed at Hueco Tanks
Photo Friday
A few photo links to inspire your weekend: bouldering at Castle Rock, ID , sport climbing in Kalymnos, Greece and any post from the El Cap Report .
Anchorpoint
The weather this Summer in Wisconsin has been a climber's dream. Temps have rarely gotten higher than 80 and many perfect sunny days in the 70's have been there for the taking whic...
Tuolumne Trip 2009
I originally came up with the idea of going to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park for a week of climbing long trad routes earlier this year during one of my frequent injury...
Full Stop
Yesterday I came to a realization that the past 3 years have all followed the same pattern as far as my climbing is concerned. Each of the 3 years began with a roughly 6 month brea...
Devil's Lake Bouldering: Alpine Club and Beautiful Soup
After 6 weeks of sitting inside watching the spring season pass by while waiting for my knee to feel better, I was abnormally psyched to meet up with Nic (of Five Ten fame), Steve...
Spring Break ‘09 Pt. 3: Zahnd
After getting rained out in Kentucky, tearing my LCL and climbing on many fun problems in Rocktown we finished up our trip with a brief stop at Zahnd on our way out of town.
Spring Break ‘09 Pt. 2: Rocktown Pt. 2
More pictures from my recent trip to Rocktown, GA.
Spring Break ‘09 Pt. 2: Rocktown Pt. 1
If you ask most people to identify one classic problem in Rocktown, GA, The Orb would probably be it. One of the first problems you come across on the approach to the boulders, Th...
Spring Break ‘09 Pt. 1: Kentucky
With the weather not cooperating during my trip to Kentucky, we had no other option but to seek out alternative activities to occupy our time.
All Good Spring Breaks Must Come To An End
Spring break starts, spring break ends...
Quick On The Draw X Results & Pictures
In case you haven't seen them in the other locations I posted them, I added pictures from last weekend's Quick On The Draw X climbing competition to my pictures page . You can down...
Quick On The Draw X
On Saturday a record crowd descended on my local gym, Adventure Rock, for the 10th Annual Quick On The Draw competition. I have had the pleasure of attending the last 9 QotD's and...
Old Devil’s Lake Bouldering Photos: The Keymaker (V11?)
Not all the bouldering on the West Bluff at Devil's Lake is spread out and hard to find. A short hike down the tumbled rocks trail followed by a brief foray in to the talus will b...
Old Devil’s Lake Bouldering Photos: Jenga (V6 or 7?)
When we were moving last year, I was very psyched to stumble across a series of pictures from the spring of 2003 I didn't remember taking. Among the pile were several pictures of t...
HP40 New Years Washout
Our trip to HP40 in Alabama wasn't a complete wash, but as far as climbing was concerned it sure felt like it. Before we left I didn't feel all that prepared, and it showed once w...
Nameless Arete
The so-called Nameless Arete (V4) at Governor Dodge is one of those problems that can be really frustrating. Based on its grade it shouldn't be that hard (in the grand scheme of t...
Horseshoe Canyon Ranch Bouldering
Two weekends ago we took the kids from our climbing team on an 11+ hour drive to try out the bouldering at the Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Jasper, Arkansas. Based on both awesome se...
“Fifty Words...” & Horseshoe Canyon Ranch Sneak Peak
Fifty Words For… …Get A Life?? …A Job?? I'm not really sure what to make of the mini-melodrama that took place at the Red this weekend. Here is a brief synopsis for those intereste...
How Do You Think Our Trip To Rocktoberfest Went?
This past weekend I made the trip to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky with Mrs. Narc, Kevlar and Sarah. We all had high hopes of climbing well and having a good time at the Rocktobe...
Taylors Falls
This weekend we made a brief 2 day roadtrip to Minnesota. On Friday night we attended the “Sweet 16” party at Vertical Endeavors St. Paul . They were celebrating 16 years of busine...
RMNP: Kind Boulder
During our time in RMNP last month, one of the highlights for me was revisiting the Kind Boulder near Emerald Lake. It was one of the boulders I had distinct memories of visiting o...
Amateur Hour At Devil’s Lake
After two frustrating weekends that involved no outdoor climbing, this past weekend we made it out to the quartzite bluffs of Devil’s Lake. The crew consisted of Mrs. Narc, Old Sch...
May I Buy You A Compass?
Guest post from Mrs. Narc: As any Narc reader knows, this summer was packed with climbing adventures for the Narc and me. Being that he possesses the vast majority of our combined...
Yosemite Trad: Learning Lessons On ‘After Six’
I am a firm believer in learning something new every time I climb a route. Whether it is a new body position to do a move, a different way to rest, a better method for placing gear...
Yosemite Trad: Dog Crack
Eddie attempting the overhanging 5. 12 finger crack Dog Crack near the Wawona Tunnel in Yosemite Valley: Here is the full gallery:
Yosemite Bouldering: Largo Lunge
Largo Lunge is one of the more fun easy problems in Yosemite’s Camp 4. As with just about all problems (of any grade) in Yosemite though, this V0 is no gimme. Here is Mrs. Narc get...
RMNP Bouldering: Mikala
Going into the bouldering leg of our trip in RMNP, I had pretty low expectations. The cast from my latest surgery had only been off for 2 months, I got bouted in Yosemite recently...
RMNP Bouldering: Paul Robinson Working Top Notch Project
Last week I had the opportunity to tag along with Paul Robinson as he worked on an (at the time) unclimbed line in Upper Chaos Canyon, RMNP, CO.
Yosemite Museum Climbing Exhibit
While in Yosemite we had the good fortune of visiting during the Climbing Exhibit that was on display at the Yosemite Museum. The free exhibit is an incredible journey back in tim...
Governor Dodge Bouldering Update
Last year I made a few trips to Governor Dodge State Park to check out some of the bouldering that I had heard was there. I found a few good problems and a lot of suspect rock. My...
Yosemite Bouldering: Park Life
While in Yosemite I checked out one of the more famous testpieces, 'Park Life' (V12)
Yosemite Bouldering: Housekeeping
If this is a post about the Housekeeping boulders, then why is the preview image of the LeConte memorial you ask? Because it gives me an excuse to bring up Dean Potter’s ridiculou...
Yosemite Bouldering: Candyland
If you are looking to pad your spraysheet with a slew of easy ticks, Yosemite might not be for you. If you are looking to try hard and climb classic lines regardless of the grade...
Midnight Lightning
Let's start out the stories from our trip to Yosemite with someone (sadly not me) sending the most famous boulder problem on the planet, Midnight Lightning (V8). Located smack dab...
Happy Boulders: Hulk [Ego Crush]
To conclude this series of posts, let me recount one of my more unpleasant experiences during my trip to Bishop. One of the more well known moderate lines at the Happy Boulders is...
Buttermilks: Soulslinger
Soulslinger. One of the Buttermilks's most iconic problems. At V9 it is tops on the ticklist of many who aspire to climb hard problems, but cannot pull down on double digit testp...
Buttermilks: Cave Problem
During my 2006 trip to Bishop, I spent a lot of rest time running around and fondling holds of testpieces like The Mandala. Who hasn't? However, I couldn't spend the hole trip mi...
Governor Dodge: The Good Times Are Killing Me
No One Gets Outta Here Alive (V2) is probably one of the best boulder problems at Governor Dodge State Park in Southwest Wisconsin. Check out these two sequences of photos featuri...
Rachel & Eddie El Cap Pictures
Short on words, long on pictures, here is a visual summary of Rachel & Eddie’s trip up the Big Stone. They got to spend their first night on El Cap Tower with Ivo Ninov and Eric Pe...
Rachel & Eddie El Cap Nose Report
Not to turn this site into a Rachel and Eddie love-fest, but if you wanted to see some of their progress on The Nose of El Capitan be sure to check out the daily El Cap reports at...
More From Yosemite
This week’s Yosemite update includes David (broken heel and all) and Rachel climbing on Separate Reality, Eddie climbing on Tales of Power (5.12b), a trip to the Mariposa Grove and...
Stuck On Yosemite
A few friends of ours, David, Rachel and Eddie, have been out in Yosemite for the past few weeks. After a few tantalizing emails about their exploits they were kind enough to shar...
Ancient History: Narc Rock Climbing
Sorry for the lower quality photos... the technology back when I used to climb isn't what it is today... Click pictures to expand... Thanks to Dan for hooking up these long lost pi...
One Step Closer
So it's been almost 3 weeks since my most recent surgery. Back in February, I had surgery on my left thumb and this time it was my right thumb taking the knife, or scope as it wer...
Plan D Part 4: The Tombstone Left
To wrap up this series of ego boosts for T-Boz here is a sequence of photos of him climbing the left side of the Tombstone (not sure if it has a name or not). Regrettably he botch...
Plan D Part 3: The Tombstone Right
After Sarah & Kevlar gave the Tombstone their best efforts, Tony came down from his perch...
Plan D Part 2: The Tombstone
After finishing up at the Flatiron, we made our way over to the Tombstone boulder. Home to 3 tall problems ranging from V1 to V5, the Tombstone is one of the best boulders in...
Plan D Part 1: Gill's Flatiron
Late in the month of March, I headed up to Devil's Lake with the goal of exploring some lesser traveled boulders with the not-so-R-Tard crew (Kevin, Sarah & Tony). Unfortunately,...
Mt. Evans Photos
Sock Hands made a trip to the alpine bouldering area Mt. Evans this past weekend and clutched up with some nice photos of various sends. Check out the posts by clicking a link belo...
Parfrey's Glen State Natural Area
As usual, a weekend forecast for snow, wind and generally miserable weather leading up to the class I was teaching last weekend with Chris at Devil's Lake had us gripping all week....
Ancient History: Horse Pens 40 Pt. 2
Horse Pens 40, AL - October, 2003 Hammerhead V5 The Drip VFun My Tips = Owned
Monday Bouldering Extravaganza Comp Photos
Monday night was (I think) the 4th edition of Adventure Rock's Monday Bouldering Extravaganza Comp (MBEC to the initiated). Besides the fresh new boulder problems, the best part of...
Mrs. Narc Opens The Spring Season at Devils Lake
Despite the fact that I have no prospects for climbing anytime soon, I have been abnormally eager for the snows to melt and the Spring season at Devil's Lake to begin. A couple of...
Ancient History: Narc Climbing On Spring Break
I am a bit busy working on a semi-secret climbingnarc.com project which I hope to unveil in its entirety on Monday. In the interim, these pictures from Rockclimbergirl.com that I c...
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...
Ancient History: Horse Pens 40 Pt. 1
click pictures to expand Horse Pens 40, AL - October, 2003 Paper & Plastic V5 The Lowdown
Blank Man - 5.13b
01/27/2008 - Peter Bonamici climbing Blank Man (5.13b) at Red Wing, MN Nice work Peter...
Mallorca
EMS is shooting their new catalog in Mallorca and they have Chris Sharma and Joe Kinder (among others) on the scene. Joe has started posting updates on the first couple of days on...
Quick on the Draw Results & Photos
Results and Photos from the 2008 Quick on the Draw competition at Adventure Rock Climbing Gym
Quick on the Draw 9
This past weekend was the 9th Annual Quick on the Draw comp at Adventure Rock . The event saw a record number of participants and was incredibly fun to be a part of. Please check b...
More Gunks Pictures
Last October, I had the good fortune of climbing at the Gunks for a few days. If you missed my original write-up on the trip you can find it here . Finally, I got around to going t...
Random Winter Pictures
I added some random winter themed pictures to the Pictures page . They were taken either out behind our apartment complex or at Lapham Peak State Park . I think they are some of th...
Lapham Peak Snowshoeing Pictures
I was pretty lucky to get a set of snowshoes for Christmas and then have it snow 6 inches 3 days later. Last night I headed out to Lapham Peak State Park to test them out. Wh...
Horspens 40 Pictures - Black & White Edition
Click on pictures to expand, click anywhere off the picture to close...
Red Wing Barn Bluff: A Midwestern Anomaly
“Coming to Carleton was a strictly academic decision,” I explain to the student interviewing me for the Carletonian, the student Newspaper at Carleton College, a small liberal arts...
3rd V13 Flash for James Pearson
21 year old James Pearson added to his unprecedented list of V13 flashes this past month when he flashed Schules des Lebens in Chironico, Switzerland. In Switzerland to work on Dav...
Hillbilly Hollow
Note from Climbing Narc - Thanks to Sarah for this guest post on Hillbilly Hollow Three hours after leaving Milwaukee, Tony, Kevlar and I pull into a rest stop just off the highway...
A Few From Governor Dodge
Cold, yet fun day...
Bishop Bouldering: 365 Days Ago
November 22, 2006 Buttermilks, Bishop, CA High Plains Drifter
A Few From Devil's Lake
Here are a few pictures from a fantastic day at Devil's Lake yesterday. Danny and I had a great day of climbing with the entire East Bluff to ourselves for the entire day. Lo...
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...
Governor Dodge Bouldering
Right about the time that I got injured earlier this year I heard about some bouldering 2 hours away in Governor Dodge State Park. Ever since then I've been eager to get out there...
HP 40 Day 2
Day 2 at HP 40 dawned to more fantastic weather. Despite the Boulderween festivities promised for later in the evening the campground didn't seem that crowded and the boulders were...
HP 40 Day 1
Last weekend, Amy and I took 5 kids from our climbing team for a long weekend to Horse Pens 40 in Alabama. Having been there a few times myself I was really excited for the kids to...
Back from HP40
As usual, HP40 was fantastic. Here is a picture of Tony attempting Boomslang (V6 but probably downgraded like everything else). More pictures and whatnot coming later this week.
The Gunks
Despite all of my (and Old School's) stressing, belly-aching and doomsday predictions about the weather forecast for New Paltz last week, the weather was basically a non-factor dur...
New Frontrange Pictures
Check out BoulderingMedia.com for new pictures from Independence Pass, CO and the recent Horsetooth Hang at the Horestooth Reservoir outside of Ft. Collins.
Gunks Bouldering
What better way to start recapping my trip to the Gunks than to talk about bouldering?
ABS 9 Adventure Rock Wrap Up
This past Saturday we held our first bouldering comp at Adventure Rock since the epic Booldering comp held in October of 2000. This time it was a local comp for the ABS 9 series. E...
ABS 9 Photos
I put together a quick page of photos from yesterday's ABS 9 comp at Adventure Rock. Check it out by clicking here .
More Devil's Lake Pictures
I added a few pictures from this past weekend's excursions at Devil's Lake to the pictures page . I'm still learning how to work with my new Nikon D70 which is at times frust...
Devil's Lake - 9/22-23/2007
Here are a few pictures with related storytelling from our weekend at Devil's Lake. More pictures than what is seen here can be viewed by visiting the pictures page . On Satu...
Devil's Lake Pictures
I added some pictures from the past weekend's adventures at Devil's Lake to the pictures page . Amy and I spent Saturday bouldering with Tony & Sarah at the North Shore...
Devil's Lake: John Cow Edition
Berkeley Foreplay Charybdis Thanks Chris!
Devil's Lake - 9/16/07
What a great weekend. Amy and I pulled off a rare doubleheader on Saturday when we took in a Wisconsin Badger football game in the afternoon and then a Brewers baseball game in the...
Purgatory
Over the Labor Day weekend I had an opportunity to check out the crag Purgatory at the Red River Gorge. I had always wanted to go there pre-injury so I could check out the hyper cl...
Mountain Climbing - Wisconsin Style
It was such a beautiful day for my day off today and seeing as climbing was out of the question, I decided to do some mountain climbing instead. Unfortunately I live in Wisco...
Roadside Attraction
Over the Labor Day weekend, I was fortunate enough to be able to climb one of the more classic trad routes at the Red River Gorge, Roadside Attraction .
NOLS Alaska
Approximate location of my NOLS course with Anchorage and Denali NP pictured. Back in High School, circa 1999, I was required to read Krakauer's Into Thin Air for an English class....
Creature Feature
For the Labor Day weekend, Amy and I took some friends of ours down to the Red River Gorge. On Friday we headed to Phantasia and did the classic route Creature Feature (5.9). I mad...
Devil's Lake Trad
Back in May, our friend Chris was nice enough to take us on a trad climbing adventure at Devil's Lake State Park. Having never done any trad climbing, it was something I had...
Before They Were Stars
The September 2007 issue of Outside Magazine features a spread on Chris Sharma's whirlwind year that will be featured in the upcoming film King Lines. This whirlwind year that star...
Pictures Page
I started adding a few pictures to the Pictures Page . Currently there are pictures from my trip to Colorado and Wyoming back in 2001. They were taken with my sister's...
Pulldown & Hoedown - RRG '07
I am just about recovered from last weekend's trip to the Red. Also, I am slowly getting everything in order with this new site and so far I am liking it a lot better. ...
Summertime At The Red
The hike into Muir Valley My old shoes still getting it done Trail to the Whittleton Arch Whittleton Arch Natural Bridge State Park, KY
Back From Kentucky
We are back from our weekend in Kentucky. Although overall it was an exhausting trip, it was one of the best I have had despite my lack of time spent on the wall. It will ta...
Mt. Evans Photos
Click photo to become enlightened... Click the photo and become enlightened to the fact that there is more climbing at Mt. Evans, CO than just the understandably legendary Dali Bou...
More on Sharma’s Uber-Proj
There is a lot of mystery surrounding this project at the epic 3rd Tier/Monastery of Clark Mountain that Chris Sharma has been working on. It is getting a lot of play for becoming...
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...
Chris Sharma - Three Degrees Of Separation
Chris Sharma has sent his latest project at the French uber crag they call Ceuse. He calls it Three Degrees of Separation and a grade of 5.14d has been suggested by Dave Graham. Th...
New Urban Climber Mag
On a lighter note, the new issue of Urban Climber is out (or should be soon). It features a rather cool staged photo of Paul Robinson over the water on Wrinkle in Time (V11) at Joe...
More Michael Reardon
I was organizing some magazines on my desk last night when I came across this issue of Climbing Magazine from October of 2006 Climbing #252 On the cover is Michael Reardon freesolo...
Aspen? California! Beautiful!
Ryan Olson has been spending his summer exploring new boulders near Independence Pass outside of Aspen, CO. He recently put up two videos on ColoradoClimbs showing off some of the...
Martina Cufar Comes to America
Former World Champion sport climber Martina Cufar from Slovenia announced her retirement from competitive climbing in 2006. During her competition days she sent sport routes as har...
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...
Vegas Calls…
Duty once again calls and I must return to the desert known as Las Vegas for a wedding. In the mean time, here are a few pictures from a trip I took out there a few years back. Rou...
Teva Mountain Games 2007
Here are the results from this year's bouldering contest... basically a repeat of last year. Wade David has the goods on the photos. 1 Daniel Woods 1 Alex Puccio 2 Paul Robinson 2...
Wild Iowa
This past weekend I went rock climbing in Iowa. Yes, Iowa. I volunteered myself to take the climbing team I coach down there. Despite the weather we managed to have a great 2 days...
Blink Of An Eye
That seems to be a good way to describe how long it seems to take for any climbing trip to be over. It seems like 5 minutes ago that I was fighting insane traffic in Chicago wonder...
Summer 2001 Road Trip: Wild Iris Pt. 2
Wild Iris Part 2 Mike Nash climbing Atomic Stetson (.13b/c) Mike climbing on the White Buffalo boulder. An interesting 20-25 foot boulder that has 2 bolts. The anchors were chopped...
Summer 2001 Road Trip: Wild Iris Pt. 1
Wild Iris The climbing at the Wild Iris outside of Lander, WY is a lot of tendon tweaking pulling on steep limestone pockets. Much like RMNP, the setting in which you are climbing...
Summer 2001 Road Trip: Lumpy Ridge
Lumpy Ridge The word lumpy is an apt word to describe the bouldering at Lumpy Ridge. The rock was very crystallized and rough on the skin. I think I remember us climbing there a fe...
Summer 2001 Road Trip: RMNP Rest Day
The "Rest" Day On one of our rest days I pushed for a hike to the top of Long's Peak. That was met with a lukewarm reception so we instead decided to hike to the lake pictured belo...
Summer 2001 Road Trip: RMNP Bouldering
RMNP Bouldering A few more pictures from "The Park" Mike Nash attempting an unkown problem near the Kind Traverse Mike attempting the hyperclassic Deep Puddle Dynamics (V9) Sundev...
Summer 2001 Road Trip: Camp Dick
Camp Dick Peter was friends with a local named Josh Heiney who was nice enough to take us on a tour of a what I believe was a newer area at the time, Camp Dick. Though the rock was...
Summer 2001 Road Trip: Chaos Canyon
Chaos Canyon There isn't much you can say to describe the bouldering and the atmosphere at Chaos Canyon in Rocky Mountain National Park. It has to be one of the best settings to cl...
Summer 2001 Road Trip
It seems like a different lifetime, but back in the summer of 2001 I went on a one month road trip after I graduated from High School. The destinations were Colorado for some alpin...
Valley Bouldering
When we did some bouldering in Yosemite last summer for our Honeymoon, I had assumed that all the bouldering had to have been tapped out. People have been climbing in the Valley fo...
Few Extra Bishop Bouldering Pictures
Here are a few leftover pictures that Tim Kettering was nice enough to forward to me.
Bishop Bouldering Pictures: Sad Boulders
Here is the last of the decent pictures I have from my trip to Bishop. These are from the Sad boulders. These shots have more of a professional flavor because they were taken by a...
Bishop Bouldering Pictures: Happy Boulders Pt. 2
Here is the second set of pictures from the Happy Boulders: Weapons of Mass Distraction Serengeti Atari almost ate it hard...
Bishop Bouldering Pictures: Happy Boulders Pt. 1
Here is the first set of pictures from the Happy Boulders: Hulk I suck... Heavenly Path (best V1 ever) Big Chicken
Bishop Bouldering Pictures: Buttermilks
I'll be posting a few pictures a day over the next few days from my trip to Bishop last November. I'll start with some pictures from the Buttermilks. High Plains Drifter Cave Probl...
Climbing Videos
Click here to be taken to the front page I will be updating this thread as I find new videos that I come across. Click a link below to be taken directly to that video on this page:...