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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : Eldorado Canyon Bouldering : West World : The Tasty Slab
By: Chip Phillips When: Dec 13, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: ^ I will try ask Mike and John about it next opportunity I have and see what they have to say about the "The Tasty Slab".
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : Eldorado Canyon Bouldering : West World : The Tasty Slab
By: Chip Phillips When: Dec 12, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Good to see something in Eldo I haven't seen before, even if it is a slab ... j/k Misha!
Anyway, at this point I would be very cautious claiming FAs anywhere near Eldorado Canyon State Park. People have been consistently hiking off trail all over western edge of Eldo for decades putting problems up in the most obscure places that are not in any guide. There are several hundred problems back there, some as far as 3 miles from the car and WAY WAY off-trail. Something as close as you are describin... more >>
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Location: CO : Canon City : Shelf Road : The Gym : Deeper Shade Of Soul (5.13) : ... : Photo
By: Chip Phillips When: Dec 11, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: C Lantz rockin' the JRAT lycra. Most excellent ... hope your surfing adventures are treating you well, sir!
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Mt. Evans : Mt. Evans Bouldering : Area A : ... : Last of the Ohitians (V1)
By: Chip Phillips When: Dec 11, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: FA: Doug Mckee.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Mt. Evans : Mt. Evans Bouldering : Area A : ... : Puddle Jumper (V2)
By: Chip Phillips When: Dec 8, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: I concur. Not as cool looking, but right up there with The Ladder in terms of quality for this grade range.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Mt. Evans : Mt. Evans Bouldering : Area A : ... : Pink Fink (V7 PG13)
By: Chip Phillips When: Dec 7, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: This problem has broken at least twice. A bit harder than V6 today.
FA: Greg Loomis.
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : Supremacy Rock : Supremacy Crack (5.11b)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 28, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Great story and historical background regarding this climb. Thanks, Pat!
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Location: CO : Golden : Clear Creek Canyon : The New River Wall : Red Makes Me Angry! (V6-7)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 27, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Maybe it was chalk, but the word Rieger was prominently scrawled across the little overhang. I'm curious where the photo went? FWIW, Scott Hahn told me this problem was called Rieger in about 2005 or so, so that's what I always thought it was.
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Location: CO : Fort Collins : Arthur's Rock : Photo
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 26, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Godzilla is actually the right line in this photo. Far left line you are uncertain about is Main Street. The middle line, which doesn't get much traffic and is quite hard, is Four Dollar Arete.
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Location: CO : Golden : Clear Creek Canyon : The New River Wall : Under Your Clings (V6-7)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 23, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Wet Carrot begins on the jug at the lip of the roof and heads right and up. It was put up by the guys guys who developed the easier stuff in the cave long before Dark Waters, Formula 50/500, etc, etc. Can't say for sure that JJ did it from the underclings first, but the lower problem which adds two moves was done by JJ in the infancy of the Dark Waters cave. He called it More Wetter Carrot, staying with the spirit of the original problem.
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Location: CO : Boulder : Flagstaff : Cloud Shadow : The Consideration (V4)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 22, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: FWIW, the name of this problem is "The Consideration" ... NOT "Consideration."
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Location: CO : Golden : Clear Creek Canyon : The New River Wall : Red Makes Me Angry! (V6-7)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 22, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: I must ask, who thought it was a good idea to spray paint "Rieger" on this little six foot overhanging block?
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Location: CO : Boulder : Flagstaff : Cloud Shadow : The Consideration (V4)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 22, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: pfwein - I deleted my previous post, since you've clarified yours.
You will know if you do Reverse Consideration. Switch the hands in the first beta photo above and you've got it. It's a completely ridiculous contortionist crossover that is really fun and made possible by perfectly placed feet. Match and throw to the lip. It's also got some cool history, being a Holloway problem.
True Consideration is thought to be the original way The Consideration was climbed ... without the small LH crimp t... more >>
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Location: CO : Boulder : Flatirons : North : Satellite Boulders : Breaking Point, The (V3 PG13)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 20, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: I'm not certain, but based on your description Joshua, I believe this problem is listed in Benningfield's first Colorado Bouldering guide and was done in the 1990s. Check out the original Colorado Bouldering and feel free to clarify. If I'm wrong, I'll delete this comment. And yes, that landing is complex to say the least - almost worthy of an R rating - with lots of questionable flakes under the roof before the lip.
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Location: CO : Boulder : Flatirons : North : Upper Satellite Boulders : Halley's Comet (V7)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 13, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Sweatpants - trend up and left from Toe to Toe & the BBC Boulder between the trail that heads to the Third and the Upper Satellites. If you get the US proper, come back down the steep main drainage heading east until you get to it. Halley's Comet and its sds, Richter Scale, are on the downhill side of a large block in a drainage culvert, maybe 300 yards as the crow flies from Toe to Toe, the BBC Boulder, etc.
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Location: CO : Eagle/Vail/Leadville : The Aircraft Carrier : Star Crossed Lovers (V5)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 8, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: I guess I have to take back my glowing praise for this problem ... total choss!
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Location: CO : Eagle/Vail/Leadville : The Aircraft Carrier : Star Crossed Lovers (V5)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 7, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Quite possibly the best problem of the grade in all of Colorado.
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Location: Monomaniac : Unknown Mt Evans BPs : Photo
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 4, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Hollow Deception, FA: Bennett Scott
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Location: Monomaniac : Unknown Mt Evans BPs : Photo
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 4, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Jiggle, FA: Charles Fryberger.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Mt. Evans : Mt. Evans Bouldering : Area A : ... : Public Execution (V9-10 PG13)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 4, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Fear not Peter, I've begun working on the Flagstaff Mountain online guide again. See you soon.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Mt. Evans : Mt. Evans Bouldering : Area A : ... : The Ladder (V2)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 4, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: FWIW, this problem was never referred to as "Indian Ladder" by the developers. Indian Ladder is at The Bog in the Poudre. Same developers.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Mt. Evans : Mt. Evans Bouldering : Area A : ... : Hollow Deception (V8-9)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 3, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Thank you sir, I should have known ... =)
Any insights regarding the status of this problem, as discussed above?
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Location: CO : Boulder : Flatirons : North : Satellite Boulders : Fleshfest (V10)
By: Chip Phillips When: Nov 1, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Flash Gordon ... since I entered the majority of the Satellites problems in the database, I am curious about this original xerox guide you speak of ... who put it together? Just the Satellites Boulders or is there more to it?
Thanks in advance for your response. Send me an e-mail message if you prefer.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : RMNP Bouldering Areas : Tyndall Gorge : ... : The Kind (V5)
By: Chip Phillips When: Oct 29, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: While I agree Jason, I can't help but yawn a little. Boulderers from all over the world know this problem as The Kind. However, it's nice to finally know who was first to start tooling around putting up problems near Emerald Lake. I knew Ian Glass and Jim Belcer were early on the scene, but Jim Hurst is new name I had not heard before. Thanks for that cool bit of info!
A related example is The Monkey Traverse, which was known for 20 years as The Long Traverse before Benningfield's guide changed... more >>
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : RMNP Bouldering Areas : Tyndall Gorge : ... : The Kind (V5)
By: Chip Phillips When: Oct 28, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: I too have ALWAYS heard this called "The Kind." Respect for The Standard Overhang name should presumably be given, regardless how uninspiring it is.
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