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The Beer Barrel Loop
V9,
Boulder,
Avg: 2 from 2
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FA: Ben Greenwood, 1998
Colorado
> Boulder
> Flagstaff
> Beer Barrel Boulder
Description
If you are looking for a new project at Flag, this might be your ticket. This rarely repeated problem involves climbing a complete loop around the Beer Barrel boulder. Start on the underclings on the south east side and traverse clockwise, finishing on a hard crux on the north east side. It's helpful to have someone block for you as you pass the crowds on the other problems.
Protection
A pad or two is fine.
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Actually Misha, Ben is quite serious, although he is one of the nicest and most unassuming climbers I've ever come across. Although I have not yet added The Beer Barrel to my online bouldering guide to Flagstaff Mountain, Ben Greenwood is credited in my draft with the FA of The Beer Barrel Loop in 1998 among other things. Additional evidence for his FA of this problem is as follows:
1. Sit-starts were not in fashion in CO or anywhere else for that matter until Sherman's first Hueco guide came out in the early 1990s. By and large, people just didn't see the point of sitting on their asses and dirtburglaring pre-pads.
2. The sds for The Beer Barrel Loop was first done in 1998 when Chris Lesher cleaned up and added a sit-start to The Brooks Bulge. Ben Greenwood was there and began doing link-ups out of this sit-start almost immediately including a link-up into The Poling Pebble called Static Fingers and The Beer Barrel Loop.
3. The finish for The Beer Barrel Loop, Northeast Mantel V6, was cleaned by Scott Boldien and established by Ben Walburn in the mid-to-late 1990s.
I hope I've convinced you, Misha. If not, leave a respectful message and I will try to respond. Boulderers represent but a sliver of a small and tight climbing community. FA info and problem names are rarely perfect, but if someone comes forward and offers their opinion, we should all try to be more respectful about it, regardless how wrong we might think someone is (I'm guilty of this, too). I think our goal at mountainproject is a longterm one ... to try to archive all this stuff in perpetuity before our memories fade and give credit when possible where it is due.
FWIW, I have not had much time to work on the guide over the last year, but The Beer Barrel with topos will be one of the next areas to go up on the online guide here: flagstaffmountainbouldering… Dec 30, 2009
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