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I have been a bit of a slacker over the past couple of months in terms of posting, I have been posting some on www.climbidaho.com, and am going to start posting again here as well. Kaiya and I just returned from a trip to the Southeast, and although it was a dismal adventure that included some pretty questionable weather I had a good time, got to meet some great new friends and climb on some of

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This is the long awaited much promised video from the Grandjean boulders in the Sawtooths. Jeff Smith on Milk Roof Variation V8 and Wild Raspberry V6/7 and myself on the Prow and Crossing the Boundary.A few words about the climbing: Milk Roof is amazing. Mike McClure put this problem up and I ended up figuring out a different sequence that completely changes the problem/grade. A difference of

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As I have been since returning from Colorado and starting school, I again hiked up to the boulders out of Grandjean on Saturday to try and send my project. Monday, Jeff and I went up and I came really close, or so I thought, and needed a rope to finish cleaning the 20 feet of slab that accompanied sending the "Sawtooth Super Project". I have a habit of wearing my running shoes to clean techy

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The beautiful view of Lincoln Lake aka Wolverineland at 12000 feetMatt Fultz and I concluded our trip to Colorado with a day at Lincoln Lake, an area high in the Mt. Evans/Arapaho Forest area southwest of Boulder, and a final day at the Park. Catching almost perfect weather save one rainy day, we both managed to send some things we wanted to and also fail on others, leaving projects for another

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Matt Fultz and I headed out to Rocky Mountain late last week and have been sampling the best that the high-altitude areas of Colorado have to offer. Upper Chaos Canyon in Rocky Mountain National Park is just that: complete chaos. House size boulders sit upon pedestals of monster truck size "pebbles" that we grapple and grovel with. The amount of rock that one can see upon topping out near Top

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Went back up to the Sawtooths again this last weekend with Jeff Smith. This time we were joined by Jamey Sproull, owner of Asana Climbing, his girlfriend Venessa and two of his employees and fellow climbers Adam Healy and Morty ??????? (Sorry man I still don't know your last name). Adam had a pretty rough day, forgetting all his food in the car and only having 3 PBR's to sustain him! He still

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Finally got up to the boulders that Jeff Smith has been raving about for years now. Only a short drive from Boise, a 5.3 mile hike and you're there. Jeff and I went up for Saturday and I shot some photos of almost everything we tried. I sent the Prow, a MM problem that is one of the best I have been on since the Flame in Hueco. Jeff did a new line on a small boulder in the main area, no name

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Been a while since the last post, the past couple of months have been pretty hectic and didn't involve a lot of climbing. Mostly moving from SLC to Boise, Idaho to prepare for the fall semester and hopefully do some new alpine exploration in my home state! Moving from Salt Lake because I wanted to go to Font in the spring, do a lot of climbing in the fall and winter would have pushed my

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Kaiya and I have been taking it a bit easy of late...we both are working on some things that are really hard for us and the weather is Salt Lake is getting warm! No, bad temps! Go down! But it just keeps getting warmer. I got a new job, again, framing houses that requires a 40 minute drive every day each way, so the whole climbing at LCC after work thing has kind of gone to shit lately. I

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Kaiya and I are engaged!! I popped the question at Castle Rock on Monday the 22nd. She said yes. Then the most hectic, ridiculous and crowded day of climbing there began! I fell off the jug rail of Columbian Bowtie twice, once resulting in a screaming, shoe-throwing mantrum...and Kaiya sent Jared's Roof Stand! Her hardest yet, according to her. Weather was a bit crazy there, snow and

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The last few weeks have been a bit quiet here, at least on the blog, apologies for that. Internet silence has not been congruent with a lack of climbing however. Kaiya and I have been up to Castle Rock with Anthony Txertudi and Pawel, down to Ibex with the Cahoons, McClures and Pawel again, and then just the other day, out to Little Cottonwood where we met some friends from the gym here in

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So the "potatards" were out in full force the last few days at Castle Rock. On Friday, Mike, Tammy, Kaiya and I walked through a blizzard to get to the Taco Cave. For those of you who have had the privilege of climbing at Castle, the snow was coming down so hard that from the parking lot, the Comp Wall was invisible through the sheets of snow. Turned out to be a rewarding trip of postholing

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Itching to get outside climbing since we got to Salt Lake, Kaiya and I managed to get up to Castle Rock to meet Tammy and Mike McClure and their friend from Boise Nate Moody. I had met Nate at Swan Falls a couple of years ago so it was nice to see him again and climb with some good, fun people for the day in one of the coolest most beautiful places I have ever bouldered. Post-holing through two

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Still jobless...I worked one day with quite possibly the 3 dumbest people ever to grace the framing industry. Marty's grandma would definitely not approve. Our place is almost complete, still having the wall to wall carpet is sweet!! Mike and Tammy McClure called the other day randomly, plane from SLC to Boise was delayed an extra 3 hours so we picked them up and hung out for a bit, showed

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It's weird how when you haven't been in a place that you spent so much time in for four months, you feel like a stranger, an outsider. In reference to Moscow, that is a GREAT feeling. We have a place in SLC, on 500 East. Cool little place on the main floor of a house with a little yard and a garage to use. Psyched to head down there with our stuff and move in for real. Kaiya and I spent some

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Here is a vid from the trip when we were in Joe's that Mike McClure had on climbidaho...its of the Black Dahlia

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December 29th marked the end of the climbing portion of our road trip. Now, in the midst of winter in the northwest, Kaiya and I get to drive all the way back to Moscow from El Paso. Leaving snow headed towards more I imagine. We chose a route that would take us on the safest, snow free roads while adding a couple of hundred miles along the way. And a stop in VegasFour months has flown by in

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Kaiya was on last time; Mike McClure had just left after a pretty good couple of days after some frustrating ones not having enough time to send on tours, bad weather etc... Brian Veseth joined us on the 13th, bringing his energy from the snowy wet and cold depths of home in Moscow to crush here in Hueco. Brian had an amazing first day, sending a lot of problems in the 4-6 range and finding

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The weather has turned to 60 and sunny in El Paso...finally. The first day we were here it snowed and for the rest of the week it was frigid with one day being incredibly windy (gusts up to 50 mph) McClure flew home a few days ago and Darryl showed up day before yesterday...incredibly psyched I might add. Mike sent Left Martini on his first go of the day which was awesome. I started to work

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Day 5 of climbing in Hueco Tanks have yielded yet another V13 for Mike McClure, and some more sending for me as well. Mike sent Tequila Sunrise, the sit start to Dirty Martini on the Rocks, a hard start to the dyno problem outside the Martini Roof. We both sent El Techo as well, I came away with a flash of Purple Flowers, sent Dirty Martini on the rocks, and came soooo close to Left Martini.

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Kaiya and I arrived in Flagstaff last night with virtually no idea where we were going to sleep (Priest Draw was my first though...) and walked into a coffee shop to check hotels and directions to the Draw to camp. Just so happened that the coffee shop that Kaiya chose employed a friend that I met through Jeff Hamlin a couple years ago named Tedd! Scored a place to crash while we are here and

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After an exodus from the skin tearing granite of Bishop, Kaiya and I started to send once again in the Shangri-La of Joe's Valley. I managed to send some more problems in the 10-12 range, including the 3rd ascent of Kill List, the 2nd of Dunkin' Donuts, and I made the FA of an amazing problem called the Black Dahlia, a V10 that would be a contender for the best problem in Joe's Valley...Kaiya

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After spending nearly a month in Joe's Valley, Kaiya and I decided that it was time to head out to Bishop to hit the Buttermilks and hopefully send some long standing projects. Now after almost 2 1/2 months on this road trip, I should have a good idea that something crazy or unexpected would happen, and I am shocked that I didn't see it coming. Four rest days and we were ready to tear skin off

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So I switched my videos over to YouTube so that Brett and Mike can watch them from their IPhones, this is the video of me on the Skeleton Key at Joes Valley. I should have some more photos up today of Kill List and Kaiya on Wills A Fire and others...

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Finally, the video of Kaiya sending Geeks of the Industry, a classic V7 at Rocky Mountain national Park in Colorado. We were there in late Sept/early Oct of this year.Kaiya Ward on Geeks of the Industry, V7 RMNP from Mike Bockino on Vimeo.

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Here is the vid of me on the FA of Allergic to Happyness, a super cool V7 that I put up on the right fork up above the UMWA boulder about 1/4 of the way up the hill. Huge boulder with a prominent arete on the right side.Also, in bigger and much more important and better news...Kaiya sent her first ever V8 yesterday!!!!!!!!!! G2-07, a powerful underclingy crimp problem at the Eden area of the

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Now in Joe's 2 1/2 weeks, the crushing has finally begun! Sends are flying around left and right and I, in all of my amazing abilities with Adobe Premier am barely able to keep up with making videos and not tearing out all of my hair.Kaiya on Geeks of the Industry from RMNP is finally done and as soon as Vimeo decides to let me have it, I will post that ASAP. I put together some vid of me on an

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So we've been in Joe's Valley now for about a week, climbing on and off, my sister and Conrad are now here, so our crew has effectively doubled. 3 days ago we suffered a bit of a mishap and I slid down the slab of a boulder and smashed my camera all to hell and broke the lens off....good thing Conrad has a brand spanking new one. He managed to get a couple photos of Kaiya on Scary Monsters,

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I have finally finished the long awaited guide to TumTum Bouldering...just still don't really know how to publish it to the web on the blog so if you want a copy let me know and I can email it to anyone who wants one. Its all in pdf format so it works with area computers. Might be able to get Mike McClure to post it on climbidaho.com for a downloadable version too, working on that. anyways,

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Above are the promised photos from Big Bend in Moab, Utah. We escaped the shite weather of RMNP for a couple of days and jetted down to Moab to get bouted on problems well below our consistent flash level....quite humbling. Anyways, here they are, hopefully get some video of some sends at Rocky soon and cross your fingers the TumTum guide will be done by weeks end!!!

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Been at Rocky Mountain National Park now for 2 climbing days...today was a rest day. The first day we went up to Emerald Lake and checked it out, I did the Kind, and some other stuff that with no guide was unnamed and unrated. Worked on Whispers of Wisdom, a V10/11 that is awesome squeezy heel hooky fun with a 35' tall slab topout. Kaiya adjusted to the altitude and prepared to climb the next

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It's Kaiya typing for a little bit of a change...We left Jackson Monday morning and headed to Rocky Mountain National Park with high hopes of good weather and hard sends. Garnet Canyon did not happen because the weather turned bad in the afternoon. We spent the afternoon hiking around Jenny Lake instead with Mike's sister Nancy. Woke up Tuesday morning and it was freezing at Rocky. Some snow

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Boulder City photos for all the working people to drool over...that means you Mr. McWinemaker. Headed up Garnet Canyon tomorrow morning to check out the boulders...with a brush and pads!! Photos and vid soon.

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Spent a few days at Castle Rock, mostly getting beat down, but thanks to Kaiya the two of us did not have to leave the place empty-handed. I had gone down there with the idea that I was going to send either the Smell of Africa V11/12 or the Bagpiper....and that I wouldn't even come close enough to Jared's Roof to spit on the start holds. Little did I know.Kaiya on the only thing she didn't

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Since Kaiya and I left Moscow on the 28th of August, there have been some pretty interesting things going down. We left on the premise that we would meet some friends John, Rob and Kate in Leavenworth for a weekend of bouldering, and then we would stay there for the rest of the week until the imminent arrival of Dave Matthews to the Gorge....little did we know. Two days after we got to

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Here is some vid of me on the Sleeping Lady, my buddy came down from Vancouver BC with his wife Meghan, and Riley shot some video of me, enjoy!The Sleeping Lady from Mike Bockino on Vimeo.

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Spent the last week in Leavenworth, Wa getting bronchitis, taking Kaiya to the ER cause her health insurance sucked, and then finally after all of that getting to climb for a few good days of temps. Rob, Kate and John Lipke joined us for the first weekend, and then we took a couple of days to get over the sickness, and a couple more days of climbing before we headed to Dave Matthews at the Gorge

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first an apology to all of you in internetdom, this blog post marks the 4th time i have used the internet since May 17th...I know that McClure and Jessen are dying, I don't constantly update my inhale/exhale patterns online. Anyways, been working 50-80 hours a week all summer, many sidejobs are done, money is made and there are now 13, yes only 13 days til Kaiyaka and I leave for the road trip..

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Got out on Monday of finals week with Brian Veseth and Kaiya. It was our two year anniversary on Monday so we decided to spend it climbing, of course. With a torrential downpour all the way there, we were a bit skeptical of the conditions for the rest of the day, but were pleasantly suprised when after about 1030 all was well and scattered clouds gave way to sunshine and good temps. Brian

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More excerpts from Tumtum, Conrad on a super sick roof crack, me on Soul to Squeeze and a really cool dyno I called Jamaican Jerk, and Kaiya doing Gigantor's Problem...you don't name things and they are named after you. Worked on a project that adds about 6 moves to Soul to Squeeze, all of them harder than the V10 itself, could be the hardest thing I have ever done...if I can do it. I'm going up

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Jake Dolence with perfect execution of an all points off downward dyno...note the peace sign that says "peace out bitches I'm jumpin"Some of the better photos from the Saturday session. A big group went up and put up a bunch of new stuff, and lots of the other problems saw repeats. You can click on the photo for a full screen version, most people probably know that, I just figured it out

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Here is a vid of 4 of the problems that we did over the weekend. I will get some vid of the others soon.Tum Tum Part 1 from Mike Bockino on Vimeo.

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Conrad sticks the second move of The Corridor and needs a brighter colored shirt...Squamish-esque setting on a south facing hillside just past Deep Creek right outside of Spokane...yes there are super high quality boulders there, and that's were Kaiya and I, along with Jeff Crawford (local area developer and world class math teacher) all weekend. Scrubbing boulders and doing new stuff. There is

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After 4 climbing days in Bishop, Tammy, Kaiya and Steff have all sent some shit, Tammy fired a send of Gleaming the Cube, a tenuous, powerful V8 in the Milks, Kaiya and Steff both sent Perfectly Chicken (V5), and I have now fallen off the last move of the Buttermilker 9 times. I have the bottom section wired, but I keep hitting that last hold a little off, and by that time don't have the pull to

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So we (Tammy McClure, Kaiya and myself landed in Bishop after a wonderful bracelet making filled, casino food eating 9 hour drive on Friday. We hung with Mike and Tammy before leaving Boise, and I vowed to avenge Mike's tendon pulley by trying to find a kneebar on every climb, and send the Buttermilker at last.Day 1 started out really well for all, went up to the Happies and were basking in the

Mike Bockinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02829691372296452497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5287127494838663890.post-1421599268198441242009-03-11T09:57:00.000-07:002009-03-11T09:58:36.093-07:00

Climbers from all over the country converged on Moscow, Idaho at the UofI Climbing Gym on March 7th to strut their stuff on the routes set by Randy Hill and Mike McClure. People as far away as New York and Alaska participated in the weekend of crimping, slapping slopers, pinching and hopefully sending...here are the results. Palouse Climbing Festival 2009

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This weekend, March 6 and 7 was the Palouse Climbing Festival, a weekend filled with yelling a screaming, dynoing for $20 bills, 5.13/12b routes, a lot of psyche, hours of work and one damn good slide show from world renowned photographer Nathan Smith. Check out Nathan's website www.pullphotography.comMike McClure and Randy Hill visited from Boise, Idaho to set all of the fabulous routes and

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I have been saying that I would post some photos from Lenville, namely the Porcupine Boulder, and here they are finally. Conrad and I went out a bit ago, I had sent everything but this project with a teensie little Fredric Nicole crimper, and Conrad wanted to send Moose Muscles. We warmed up at the gym and then headed out, since all of the easy stuff was wet, for Conrad to send and me to get

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So yeah, the weather in the inland northwest has been less than optimal I guess one could say. Pretty hard to go bouldering when all the boulders are wet. And your girlfriend/climbing partner is injured=doesn't want to stand in the 35 degree wind for no reason (I can't figure out why). Kaiya did some sort of damage to her left ring finger two weeks ago, and she has been sidelined ever since.

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I went out to Lenville yesterday to do some climbing and video shooting for a small video that Mark is going to make if he has enough time before the comp on the 7th of March. I hadn't been out there since the late summer when I wasn't in the best of bouldering shape. Guess I am now. I had tried Moose Muscles, a V11 that Mark did, over a few days and a lot of tries but never could manage to

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These days, as the temps plummet into the negative ranges at night, the idea of climbing outside is entertained through watching videos on climbidaho and youtube, while in reality I am trapped in a gym. Two I guess, I just got a membership to the one in Pullman WA, so I got nothin to bitch about. Having nothing in the immediate future to look forward makes it hard to psyche yourself up to do

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I have obviously (for those of you who can't tell) posted a bunch of photos from my Thanksgiving trip to Bishop and New Year's trip to Hueco. More to come and hopefully video of Kaiya sending the FFA of Tots in Riggins, Idaho from the long weekend.

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The last time I checked in, Bush was still in office, we were officially headed into a reciession(not that anything has changed on that front) and I was headed to Bishop California to go bouldering for Thanksgiving break. Ain't school great? Structured vacation time and everything. No wonder professional students exist. So did the usual thing drove through the night got some shit food at a

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Headed to Bishop today to thrash myself on the beautiful granite boulders. Had a super gnar sesh with Mike McClure and Randy Hill at Castle Rock last weekend, managed to flash The Smell and Jared's Roof Stand, and sent Out of Africa. I kept getting to the last move on the Smell of Africa, but that hard last move killed me after the second day on. That Taco Cave is PHYSICAL!! Should have tons

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Make sure to check out the new pics of the Northwest bouldering and sport climbing, expecially the big photo of Polinski on Problem Child

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Years ago at the U of I climbing gym, we used to session for hours on end, pushing each other to get stronger. At the head of the progressive climbing was a kid named Ben Carpenter. He gave up climbing about 4 years ago to devote more time to wood turning, which as with climbing, he gave it everything and excelled. Recently, over the last couple of years, he has made his way to the crag a few

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All psyched on routes again. Not that the psyche ever really left, but as the temps went south and the cool wind in Riggins starts to blow, I was getting pretty close to being done with route climbing for the season. Until this weekend. After a very engrossing geology field trip to dig fossilized plants in Clarkia, ID, I raced up to Spokane to Deep Creek to meet Mark Polinski, John Keane and

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Earlier this summer, a group of guys from the area began developing a bouldering area 20 minutes southeast of Moscow. Pawel, Shirley T., Mark and myself spent a consideralbe amount of time out there this summer, and recently Conrad has been logging quite a few hours. The bouldering is actually quite good, amazing to some who went to school here and looked for rock for four years (sorry McClures

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Tammy and Mike finally got married. Can't really call it an onsight, but a flash could be given (rehearsal blows the onsight I hear) seeing as how they both performed flawless. Went down to Boise, ID on Thursday to boulder and attend the festivities for the weekend. Had a pretty sick night session with McClure, sent Ride the Lightning (V9) at Reynold's Creek in 5 goes, did some really cool

Mike Bockinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02829691372296452497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5287127494838663890.post-40477198603228219152008-09-23T15:52:00.000-07:002008-09-23T15:56:57.209-07:00

Been bouldering at Liberty Park in Spokane a lot in the last couple of weeks, fortunately I have a good pic from last year, here I am on Medieval Justice, a V10 that was FA'ed by Mike McClure a few years ago. All of the boulder problems at the park are really long (for bouldering) and physical. Not as much of the techy side of bouldering here. More of how hard you can pull down, which is rad

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September has been a strange month of climbing for me. Struggling on Progressive Discipline (14b) at Deep Creek, a route that showcases the strength of Mike McClure, I have been going to Liberty Park after or before every session to boulder on the fractured basalt. Urbna bouldering at its best here, a picturesque area of Spokane, Washington, ripe with teenage gangbangers, broken glass and the

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