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Arkansas quick recap
Daily Doses —
So the 4 day trip to Arkansas was a blast! I must say, Arkansas is by far one of the best areas to go bouldering. With tons of classic areas, littered with a range of easy - difficult boulders.. any climber can have a good time. We got lucky with the weather, and all days where pretty cold, and sunny. I'd say the only downside to the whole trip was Voges ripping multiple flappers on the first day! But with syke and some solid effort he was still able to get shit done! ...
Jimmy Webb In The Zone In Arkansas
ClimbingNarc.com —
Any time Chris Sharma comes through an area and leaves behind a wake of difficult looking ungraded boulder problems it’s always interesting to see what subsequent repeaters think about the problems. Take his well publicized trips to Arkansas for example. Most of the problems featured in Dosage 3 have been repeated at this point with Witness The Fitness (V15? , repeated by Fred Nicole and now broken) and King Lion (V12, repeated by Dave Graham, Ethan Pringle and others) being among the more notable. However, one of the cooler looking lines that had yet to be repeated as far as anyone ...
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TheLowDown —
Here are a couple of cool vids from Jimmy Webb, shot during an extended weekend in the Ozarks, Arizona. The highlight is the quick 2nd(?) ascent of Chris Sharma's The Zone, 8B-ish? Enjoy! Arkansas 1 from Jimmy Webb on Vimeo. Arkansas 2 2009 from Jimmy Webb on Vimeo. ...
2009 Year In Review Part 4
ClimbingNarc.com —
Click here to read Part 1 (Jan. – March) here to read Part 2 (April – June) and here to read Part 3 (July – Sept.) of the 2009 Year In Review. On to Part 4:
October
40-year-old Yuji Hirayama visited Canada (in September really) and repeated Cobra Crack (5.14 trad) among other notable achievements (Link).
Big Up Productions released their latest movie, Progression. I interviewed Josh Lowell about the movie (Link) and provided my thoughts in a review (Link).
The 2009 Triple Crown ...
