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→ 01 May 13 at 12 am
→ 01 May 13 at 12 am
Griffin Whiteside on Arrowhead in Joe’s Valley, Utah
Photo by Hayden Jamieson
Belay On
Blogging the beautiful side of climbing.
I’ve got a friend who’s been climbing for 5 years, and he climbs V10.
I have another friend that’s been climbing for 7 years, and he climbs 5/10c.
Do you trad 5.12? Good for you.
Onsight V10 last weekend? Great.
Finish your first 5.11 in 10 years? Fantastic.
Make the US World team? Good for fucking you.
This sport needs to stop being so fucking judgmental. I’m sick of walking into a gym and feeling eyes on me, seizing me up. I’m sick of my fucking FRIENDS, judging my other friends. In the above scenario, I was talking about the second guy to the first guy, and he SCOFFED and acted like such a dick. Needless to say, I was really offended.
I have friends, young kids who are like young siblings to me, that are constantly being ignored by coaches, and then by their own teammates, because they don’t climb 5.12, so OBVIOUSLY they’re not trying hard enough. I work with them. They try fucking hard. How fucked up is that?
Climb because you want to fucking climb. You do you, I’ll do me, and for God’s sake BE SUPPORTIVE of your fellow climbers! You all want the same thing, and that’s to get to the top of all the cool places while meeting cool people along the way.
Why do we have to be so judgmental about it?
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→ 29 Apr 13 at 3 pm
→ 29 Apr 13 at 3 pm
Paul Robinson makes the FA of a 30+ move boulder problem in Hawaii
Photo via Asana Climbing
♥ 32
→ 19 Mar 13 at 1 pm
→ 19 Mar 13 at 1 pm
Uncut video of Carlo Traversi on Direct North, V14, Buttermilks, in Bishop, California
♥ 25
→ 11 Mar 13 at 9 pm
→ 11 Mar 13 at 9 pm
This is one of the boulder fields at Castle Hill Station, in Arthurs Pass, New Zealand. Photo taken by Richard Mellis, it shows some of the University of Canterburys climbing club on their way to enjoy it. This was day two of the trip:)
Women:
- Alex Puccio
- Andrea Szekely
- Isabelle Faus
- Megan Mascarenas
Men:
- Daniel Woods
- Ian Dory
- Vasya Vorotnikov
- Carlo Traversi (despite Garrett Gregor’s challenge)
Congrats to all the competitors, what a spectacular comp! I practically had a heart attack… Wow. If climbing isn’t an Olympic sport after that, then that’s some bull.
whenever you have a climber friend with an ego problem just kindly remind them that Alex Honnold put up a 19-pitch 5.13c/d and be on your way
JACK DONAGHY JUST MADE A REFERENCE TO THE DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY “TOUCHING THE VOID” ABOUT THE ICE CLIMBER AND IT WAS GREAT
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→ 11 Feb 13 at 3 pm
→ 11 Feb 13 at 3 pm
Chris Sharma’s recent ascent of Fight or Flight (9b) in Spain
See raw footage of Adam Ondra’s ascent here (I wanted to give Sharma his own blogspace haha)
