Central Washington Bouldering
A few words about my recent trip to central Washington to boulder in Gold Bar, Index and Leavenworth
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Road Trips
Gold Bar & Leavenworth Bouldering
Gold Bar & Leavenworth Bouldering Watch on vimeo
Utah Trip Part 2: Joe's Valley To Moab
Rest days from Joe's Valley
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
Popular Posts & Videos For May 2010
A brief recap of a Memorial Day weekend spent at the Red River Gorge and Popular posts and videos for May of 2010
Trip To The Red & CO Bouldering News
A few words about my trip to the Red River Gorge over the weekend and video of Jimmy Webb and Brion Voges climbing boulders in Colorado
Kentucky Champagne
Sandstone and Bourbon...
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
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...
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...
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...
What A Difference A Week Makes
Two weekends ago I was out at Governor Dodge pulling down on sandstone boulder problems in a t-shirt. Conditions really could not have been much better. At the time, I knew that th...
Sandstone Violence
Over the past month, as Fall conditions have finally arrived here in Wisconsin, I have been slowly working my way through some of the harder problems at Governor Dodge in an attemp...
Theater Of The Absurd
My Dad often asks me why I don’t just use a ladder to get to the top of a boulder when I tell him about our various bouldering excursions. That’s a valid question I suppose, but wh...
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...
Central Wisconsin Sandstone Bouldering
I have to admit that I lived the past several years in a bubble, believing that Devil’s Lake was the only place to climb in the entire state of Wisconsin. Thanks to the generous be...
“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...
I Can’t Believe I Am Alive To Write This Trip Report
You will never believe what happened to us during our recent drive to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky...
Governor Dodge Bouldering Update 2
Yesterday was another beautiful and atypically pleasant summer day here in Wisconsin. Mrs. Narc and I had a good day bouldering out at Governor Dodge where we were able to do a cou...
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.
RMNP Trip Update
Our trip out west is going very well so far. We are in RMNP right now and it has been cool to see everything that is going on out here. Apparently the ever-humble Tommy Caldwell re...
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...
Living The High Life At Devil’s Lake
Old School and I made our respective returns from surgery to the sharp end at Devil’s Lake yesterday. I decided to leave my camera behind so my words will have to suffice...for th...
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...
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...
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,...
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
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...
Gem Lake
With one day to ourselves before our coaching duties commenced for the recent ABS Nationals comp in Boulder, we somehow had to pick only a couple of activities out of the myriad th...
Ancient History: Horse Pens 40 Pt. 1
click pictures to expand Horse Pens 40, AL - October, 2003 Paper & Plastic V5 The Lowdown
ABS Nationals: Boulder Bound
Barring any weather related delays we will be on a plane heading to Denver/Boulder later this evening. Friday will be a day of exploration with the weekend dedicated to coaching an...
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...
Horspens 40 Pictures - Black & White Edition
Click on pictures to expand, click anywhere off the picture to close...
Little Rock City Video - Red House (V7)
In preparation for the upcoming Triple Crown Bouldering event at Little Rock City/Stone Fort outside of Chattanooga, TN, here is a video of me on Red House from the Spring of 2005....
A Few From Governor Dodge
Cold, yet fun day...
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...
Devil's Lake in the Fall
Picture if you will for a moment the most glorious Fall day you have ever seen at your local climbing crag. Picture in your head the trees ablaze with full fledged Fall colors. Fee...
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...
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...
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...
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 .
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...
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
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...
Spring Break
I guess it’s not really called “Spring Break” any more for me now that I work for a living, but nevertheless this past weekend/week served as our Spring Break trip for the year. I...