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perfect winter tempsthis secluded and little-known area has vast potential for those willing to do the 100 mile drive from flagstaff.
Submitted by: bvb on 2006-01-17
Views: 1614 | Votes: 30 | Comments: 13 |
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heart cave reduxsome burly dude from phoenix does the heart cave, avoiding the dreaded curt shannon "signature series" beta.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-11-10
Views: 1873 | Votes: 27 | Comments: 9 |
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dropzonedrew applies maximum torque to the heel-toe cam, midway through this vee-sharma flagstaff testpiece
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-11-04
Views: 1883 | Votes: 64 | Comments: 18 |
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curt nails the dynocurt sails toward the bucket on the heart cave problem, using his shannon "signature series" beta.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-08-21
Views: 1804 | Votes: 76 | Comments: 41 |
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ryanG crimps like a fiend at Gloria'sblood crushed out of his tips at 500 psi, ryan pimps and crimps through the crux of a new B2 boulder problem at glorias rocks, march '05
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-06-24
Views: 1938 | Votes: 59 | Comments: 25 |
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the most perfect limestoneextraordinary color accents this extraordinarily good highball in an obscure canyon near flagstaff
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-06-24
Views: 2125 | Votes: 40 | Comments: 12 |
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sammy t. stretches his tendonssam pulling hard in an obscure limestone draw near flagstaff
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-06-24
Views: 1903 | Votes: 34 | Comments: 2 |
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luke finally sees daylightafter 20' of horizontal, luke breaks out into the sun and the angle 'eases' into an 8 foot, 120 degree headwall.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-13
Views: 1344 | Votes: 34 | Comments: 15 |
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noah's aretenoah's arete, one of the best boulder problems in utah. photo by john wason.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 1547 | Votes: 39 | Comments: 12 |
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goldrushgoldrush, typical of the stellar rock and thought-provoking heights found on hankry mountains boulder problems. photo by john wason.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 1340 | Votes: 35 | Comments: 15 |
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The Verta scary, unnamed 20-footer on "the vert" boulder, hankry mountains, utah.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 1224 | Votes: 22 | Comments: 6 |
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world leader pretend"world leader pretend", a stellar roof problem near preist draw, arizona.
photo by jocelyn van belle
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 1843 | Votes: 50 | Comments: 31 |
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the roofmoving into the crux wide fists section of this unnamed, dead-horizontal, 17' roof crack. photo by andy d.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 1823 | Votes: 50 | Comments: 24 |
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the unnamedbvb on an unnamed 5-star highball at big rocks. photo by jocelyn van belle.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 2205 | Votes: 37 | Comments: 10 |
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radio free loabvb on the steep, positive cutter edges of "radio free loa", big rocks, utah.
photo by john wason
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 2246 | Votes: 40 | Comments: 7 |
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the shieldjvb on the impeccable rock of "the shield" at big rocks, near capitol reef national park.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 2653 | Votes: 55 | Comments: 18 |
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the brain, center routejvb on the steep and unrelenting center route on the brain, big rocks, utah.
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 1492 | Votes: 30 | Comments: 9 |
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the salton seaandy on an obscure roof near preist draw, arizona
Submitted by: bvb on 2005-04-09
Views: 3111 | Votes: 44 | Comments: 30 |
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Vaino Kodas flashing Bad AssOldskooler Vaino Kodas hiked this Priest Draw classic as a warm-up before moving on to the much harder sends. Your climbing prime begins at 40....
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-06-10
Views: 2449 | Votes: 16 | Comments: 6 |
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The Legendary Kerwin KlienFA of Carnivore, and half the other early hards in PD. he da Man.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-06-03
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SPLITTERNote to sportclimbers, pocket fiends, and tusconites: bring tape. lots of it.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-06-03
Views: 1196 | Votes: 18 | Comments: 4 |
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Basalt Dream UnitA small Basalt crag near Gloria's. Quiet, secluded, and choice.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-05-23
Views: 1153 | Votes: 11 | Comments: 5 |
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Eyeballing The Lipjvb starts to work into the off-fingers crux at the lip of the B.C.O.F. This thing has a bad size for everybody...
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-05-18
Views: 1082 | Votes: 23 | Comments: 2 |
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Cory On Bachar Cracker of FlagstaffAnother angle on this rarely-seen five star splitter. If you like pain, this bud's for you.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-05-18
Views: 951 | Votes: 11 | Comments: 0 |
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Curt Shannon Tags The Lip On The Pet Tree ProblemStill crimping after all these years, old man shannon puts the smackdown on Jim Gault's overhanging crimpfest meat tenderizing nightmare at Gloria's. Ouch.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-05-18
Views: 1388 | Votes: 15 | Comments: 7 |
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The Bachar Cracker of FlagstaffYou don't find true splitter cracks in Flagstaff limestone too often, but they're out there. Here, JVB launches out this superb 18' hands and fingers roof, predictably referred to as "The Bachar Cracker of Flagstaff"
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-05-18
Views: 1819 | Votes: 13 | Comments: 0 |
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Don't Let This Happen To YouIn a hurry to pack up and get out to an unclimbed 18' roof crack in an area near Priest Draw, I tried to cut open a gatorade bottle with a $50.00 german high-carbon steel paring knife and wound up damn near cutting off my finger instead. Here I am four hours after my second surgery, indulging in a little frontier "anasthesia". Moral of the story? Don't Drink and Knife ;-}
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-05-02
Views: 936 | Votes: 15 | Comments: 11 |
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The Rabbit Valley OverhangClimbing at Big Rocks is all about big roofs on highly colorful bullet stone. This classic V5 roof charges 7' of full horizontal on letterbox pockets and sloping huecos, and is only one of the four problems that tackle this five star formation.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-04-12
Views: 1124 | Votes: 10 | Comments: 3 |
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Curt and his ToupeeCurt belays some hottie at Nuevo, January, 1985. Check at all that hair!
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-04-06
Views: 1529 | Votes: 4 | Comments: 2 |
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Rick Piggot On The Undertow RoofDescription: Another legendary California mystery hardman from the 70's and 80's, Rick's gig was soloing Woodson 5.12's and El Cap spook routes. Here's Rick leading the massive Undertow Roof at Mt. Woodson, circa mid 80's. Like many Woodson rarities and obscurities, it's likely this route has not seen a chalk mark in 15 years.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-29
Views: 1709 | Votes: 39 | Comments: 9 |
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Bruce "Kinnaloa" Pottenger and JVB, 7am, Looking For CoffeeJ-Tree. '86. The typical scene outside our truck early in the morning. Bruce, the original climbing t-shirt kingpin and inventor of the first bouldering crashpad, is clearly in desperate need of java. Jocelyn, however, has obviously had too much. This ain't no #$@*% wienie roast, babe...
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-19
Views: 1431 | Votes: 10 | Comments: 2 |
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Mike Paul Works On His Tan On Stem GemIn the early 80's, NOBODY had the Stem Gem more wired than Mikey (aka Vawto, aka the Watusi). Barefoot, backwards, in the blistering noontime sun, and he could camp out there for hours. Just another mid-week bouldering sesh in the Monument...
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-19
Views: 2153 | Votes: 27 | Comments: 11 |
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Leave It To Beaver, March 1980 -- A Tragic FailureOf all my way-too-many not-quite-flashes, 23 years later this is one of the tragic near-misses that still stings. On my very first ever attempt at the Beaver, betaless and wearing tennies, I powered through dozens of ill-concieved and off-sequence moves, finally pumping off the big jugs on the VERY LAST MOVE. Please God, someone just shoot me.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-19
Views: 1421 | Votes: 29 | Comments: 12 |
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Generic Peabrain ShotActually, you gotta hike past the Manx boulders to get to this. And yeah, this is me in the standard pose from the standard angle of a standard V3 problem. But what the hell, we had a great time that day...we were bouldering with Peggy Oki, pioneering Skateboarder, member of the original Zephyr skate team, soul sister watercolor artist, and, after a week with us, a fully transformed hard-core boulderer. Chalk up another one for the pebble wrestlers!
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-19
Views: 810 | Votes: 13 | Comments: 3 |
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Let Us Now Praise Female BurlBack in the day, only a handful of American female climbers could boast this kind of buffed-out rip. Sharon was one of 'em. After a steady, multi-year diet of 5.11 and 5.12 cracks, big walls, french limestone, alpine epics, hard bouldering, and multi-month road trips, she had some serious cut. Here she is in her prime, Spring 1987, warming up on some generic Jtree mega-classic...guess the route!
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-18
Views: 1562 | Votes: 12 | Comments: 10 |
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jvb pumping granite on robbin's crackjvb on yet another airy, standard-issue 25-footer woodson highball: the robbin's crack. if you think the ropeless trip up is scary, better put on the diapers for the descent -- downclimbing the crack! photo shot back in march, 1985.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-18
Views: 1177 | Votes: 53 | Comments: 16 |
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The Bachar Cracker Of New EnglandYour humble poseur, uh, I mean poster, on the second ascent of the elusive and mysterious "Bachar Cracker Of New England." After I conned Sherman into the mandatory six-hour deforestation project required to clear the lip-and-slab topout, he bagged the first ascent(sonofabitch!) and I jetted up first thing the following spring determined to go full-on sendfest. To my knowledge, Verm and I have the only two ticks, but by now ya gotta figure the Franconia homeboys have been keeping busy on it...New England climbers, can you correct me on this?
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 749 | Votes: 15 | Comments: 4 |
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Generic Midnight Lightning ShotAfter working the route in miserable, wet, on-and-off snow conditions for two weeks in February and March of 1988, I had the match wired and was getting to the lip every time. Six or seven bad slappers from the mantle dimmed my enthusiasm a bit, and in late March the frikkin' Park Service transferred me to Boston. Haven't been back to the Valley since. After 15 years, it's probably time, eh? With pads, spotters and decent shoes, who knows...?
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 774 | Votes: 24 | Comments: 6 |
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Another Choice High-Altitude Hankry TestpeiceScattered among the old-growth poderosa pines in the Hankry Mountains of Eastern Utah are the Western hemisphere's finest nuggets. Bullet rock, sandbox landings, and a low-key scene that will have the most high-strung climbers taking afternooon naps. Have at it, grommets.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 832 | Votes: 8 | Comment: 1 |
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JVB On Starving In StereoJocelyn putting the smackdown on Starving In Stereo, 1986. At the time, Starving vied with the Lie Detector for "Hardest Climb At Woodson" status. Either way, you knew for damn sure that you'd better bring some tape...
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 981 | Votes: 11 | Comments: 3 |
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Tom Lindner On Stairway To HeavenTom Lindner hiking Stairway To Heaven, winter of 1985. During this era, Tom held undisputed King of the Hill status, and had a solo circuit that consisted of about 15 or 20 V4 - V6 "boulder problems" that averaged 30' high and featured no-nonsense "Game Over" landings. To this very day, Tom defines the term Hardcore.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 1323 | Votes: 8 | Comments: 6 |
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Palm Reading on the Stem GemUnderground hardman and archetypal all-arounder John Wason geckos his way through the insecure stemming and palming on this most classic of all J-Tree classics.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 743 | Votes: 23 | Comments: 8 |
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Jaws -- Same Day, Different LapHere's Jocelyn on, like, lap number 8, trying to bust the record for the most consecutive solo laps on Jaws back in 1985. Can you spell wired? 18 years later, and she can still huck laps on the sucker like it's a 5.6 slab, despite the fact that this inch-and-a-quarter ankle-breaker has a bad size for everybody. Me? I wanna Top Rope. Go figure.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 1034 | Votes: 17 | Comments: 6 |
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Can You Say Concentration?Yosemite Valley, Spring of 1986, and the lovely Jocelyn Van Belle is inches away from ticking her first 5.12 flash on Peter's Out, an old Croft route established in 1979.(Jocie's on a TR though -- lose style points for that, I guess.) You can tell by the look on her face that she is zeroed in on those tips jams with laser-like focus. And she's looking pretty damn good, I'd say, for someone who hasn't showered in two weeks. My wife...I think I'll keep her.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 817 | Votes: 11 | Comments: 2 |
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Big Rocks -- The Skull Rock RoofTypical of Big Rocks bouldering is this long, powerful sit down roof. After travelling miles of horizontal, relief is granted when you finally hit the big huecos at the lip. But it ain't over till it's over -- a burly topout now awaits the fully pumped pebble wrestler!
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-16
Views: 732 | Votes: 11 | Comments: 0 |
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Wide Open Spaces At Big RocksJoceyln Van Belle enjoys the spectacular setting at Big Rocks, near Capitol Reef National Park and located on the northern edge of the 9,000 foot Awapa Plateau. The lush Rabbit Valley lies in the background, with 11,600 foot Thousand Lake Mountain looming behind.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-16
Views: 685 | Votes: 11 | Comment: 1 |
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Jocelyn on the Whiffle BallJocelyn starts to air it out on the Whiffle Ball, one of many superb highball boulder problems at Big Rocks, an area loaded with off-the-deck moderates. The problem Jocelyn's on in this photo is a 30' V2 heavily pocketed jug haul with the crux down low, and a must-do for those visiting the area. Look for full beta on Big Rocks in the soon-to-be-released Russo/Baldwin/Beck Utah Bouldering Guide.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-16
Views: 921 | Votes: 12 | Comments: 4 |
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Epi, Showing Some Serious BuffOnce upon a time, epi ruled the scene when it came to long, knee-knocking runouts and steep boulder problems that demanded flexibility and raw, unfettered power. Here's Greg in his prime, circa 1985, showing us how it's done on his shamelessly sandbagged B1 "Epicenter", Mt. Woodson.
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-16
Views: 1256 | Votes: 11 | Comments: 3 |
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Stingray -- The First ReconHere's one for the history books -- March 1985 -- Brooke Sandahl and Mike Paul making the first attempts on Stingray, later TR'd by Mike to become JTree's hardest crack. On this freezing March day, good progress ws made, but man did the fingers get COLD!
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-16
Views: 1966 | Votes: 11 | Comments: 3 |
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Crimpin' The Dimes on ValhallaRound about the late '70's, on what must of been our 50th ascent of this route, Alan (Pywiac) dropped the belay rope just long enough to snap this photo. I didn't notice, 'cause I was zeroed in on the upcoming runout on nickles and dimes...the Friend on my rack was a just-past-prototype unit that alan brought from Jardine for $18.00 bucks...what a rip-off!
Submitted by: bvb on 2003-03-17
Views: 2247 | Votes: 17 | Comments: 4 |