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Jul 10, 2016 Cannon Cliff Cannon Cliff summer 2016 ● Posted this so I could use the route topo tool to highlight some recent rockfall for a blog post. Since her… View Comment
Nov 9, 2015 j. The Maine Hi… > Katahdin > 01. Chimney Pon… > Armadillo (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Climber on Hand crack above flake. Belayer on grassy ledge. Viewed while hiking on Knife ridge ● 6 years after taking this shot I got to go back and climb the Armadillo via the wind in the wills variation… View Comment
Aug 18, 2015 j. The Maine Hi… > Katahdin > 01. Chimney Pon… > Armadillo (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Geoff Wilson on the the left hand variation, Wind in the Willows. A stellar and rather consistent 5.9 Crack. When coupled with the 5.8 left hand Chimney start from the original 1934 Armadillow route, this makes for a super high quality, direct, continuos crack climb... ● Chimney can be seen two bushy ledges below the climber. Its the same chimney from the picture in an essay o… View Comment
Aug 13, 2015 Cathedral Ledge > Barber Wall Book of Solemnibeast (variation of Book of Solemnity) 5.10- ● While this is a fun link up, I would hardly label the second pitch of the book "awkward". Classic, killer,… View Comment
Sep 6, 2014 -Acadia NP > Precipice aka The S Wall Mme. LeBois' Troubled Lunge -(Central Slab) 5.7 ● see here : mountainproject.com/v/madam… View Comment
Sep 1, 2014 Cathedral Ledge > Mordor Wall > Pendulum Route (5.11c/d 7a 24 VIII 25 E4 6a PG13) Spencer Hastings pulling the P7 crux ● unfortunatly I think your compliment is misplaced, John! We all tried the corner way and couldn't figure it… View Comment
Aug 31, 2014 Cathedral Ledge > Mordor Wall Pendulum Route 5.11c/d PG13 ● a couple of thoughts after adventuring up this climb. The climbing is generally fun well protected and cons… View Comment
Aug 31, 2014 Cannon Cliff > Moby Grape Area > Moby Grape (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c PG13) Pauling pulling the roof move on P8 ● on the left edge of the rock buttress by his head. The anchor is about 15' up a slab from here. I dropped d… View Comment
Aug 19, 2014 Cathedral Ledge > N End > Kiddy Crack (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Courtney begining the route ● YOu know your European when... View Comment
Aug 19, 2014 Cannon Cliff > Moby Grape Area Moby Grape 5.8 PG13 ● Belay beta. Over the years I've discovered a couple of pieces of beta regarding belay locations that make t… View Comment
Aug 15, 2014 Cannon Cliff > Whitney-Gilman… > Whitney Gilman Ridge (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) NOT the W-G trail...this goes "nowhere". The Moby Grape trail leaves from one of those paved picnic areas along the side. ● This trail goes no where. The Moby Grape trail leaves from one of those paved picnic areas along the side.… View Comment
Jun 22, 2014 Lake Tahoe > Highway 50 Corr… > Lover's Leap > Main Formation > E Wall The Line 5.9 ● fun, solid line. We did it in two as well, and with a bit of runout on easy terrain on the second pitch, th… View Comment
Feb 5, 2014 NH Ice & Mixed > N Conway Area > Cathedral Ledge Ice C… Repentance 5.9 WI5 M4-5 ● So that others don't make the same mistake as us, the preferred second pitch belay is higher then you might… View Comment
Dec 15, 2013 NH Ice & Mixed > Rumney Ice Climbs > Apocalypse Wall Parallel Gully WI3- ● I think the beta for this route is to chimney. There are a number of spots where you can get very comfortab… View Comment
Dec 2, 2013 Red River Gorge > Northern Gorge > Military Wall Tissue Tiger 5.12b ● I found the no hands rest as well. A solid knee bar that not only allowed me to go no hands, but got me hal… View Comment
Nov 2, 2013 Rumney Waimea ● Hey Soon, I have to say that start to techno is some of my favorite climbing on the cliff. Being one of th… View Comment
Nov 2, 2013 Rumney Waimea ● Soon, I would assume the NFS position would be that it is stashed equipment and therefore abandoned propert… View Comment
Nov 2, 2013 Rumney Waimea ● Hey Soon. The last time an actual vote was held was either in 2007 or 2008 at an RCA meeting at the Rock Ba… View Comment
Nov 1, 2013 Rumney > Waimea Lily milking the rest before the starting moves of butt bongo fiesta ● This fixed instillation does nothing but promote laziness and dangerous climbing practices. For what? to le… View Comment
Nov 1, 2013 Rumney Waimea ● Just to be clear, the last time the RCA addressed the ladder issue was at a large meeting 5 or 6 years ago… View Comment
Oct 25, 2013 Rumney > Waimea Cote d'Azure 5.13b ● For A while I was thinking this was a step up from other .13b's I had done. The boulder problem at the star… View Comment
Sep 15, 2013 Rumney > Orange Crush Lions and Tigers and Bears 5.11b ● Both finishes are fixed in their entirety with permadraws. View Comment
Aug 25, 2013 WM: Albany Area Band M ● Ben, are you aware the cliff is closed by the land owners? Unless something has changed, your threatening t… View Comment
Aug 4, 2013 Rumney > Main Cliff Sweet Polly Purebred 5.10c ● Hey Nick, sounds like you've had a rad tour of Rumney's classics recently. right on. The way you descri… View Comment
Jul 16, 2013 Rumney > Orange Crush > Predator (5.13b 8a 29 IX+ 30 E7 6c) the dead point hold... ● Ha, this draw is now on my rear view mirror. The thing seriously sketched me out. The sides are sharp and t… View Comment
May 19, 2013 Rumney > Hinterlands Found the Jolt anchors 60-70' downhill in the woods!!! ● How are those quick clips looking? worth going up with a wrench to grab them and repurpose them on another… View Comment
Feb 24, 2013 NH Ice & Mixed > - Franconia Notch The Flume (Franconia Notch) ● I would think twice about mixed climbing here, Ryan. This is a very very popular tourist attraction that br… View Comment
Feb 1, 2013 Rumney > Triple Corners > Triple Corners Left Promises 5.12d ● Lee, you're a model of sensibility! if the climbing community had more people with your level of psych and… View Comment
Jan 15, 2013 NH Ice & Mixed > - Lakes Region Ice > Newfound Lake > Pikeline (WI3+) this is what the route looked like last year when I soloed it, steep ice to a rock finish ● This is indeed the climb. View Comment
Jan 11, 2013 NH Ice & Mixed > - Lakes Region Ice > Newfound Lake Blood line WI3 ● I just never get enough of this climb. There are many variations that feel completely different and probabl… View Comment
Dec 25, 2012 NH Ice & Mixed > - Lakes Region Ice > Newfound Lake Slim Jim WI4 PG13 ● The ramp above the initial pillar can be hollow and pretty hard to protect at times. Since you can't see it… View Comment
Nov 27, 2012 WM: Pinkham / P… > 01. Hall's Ledge > Golden Wall > Dirty Thieving Loran (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c) We be jammin'. ● We be pinchin', and I hope you Like pinchin' too....hmm. doesn't work as well. But I'm not seeing any jams... View Comment
Nov 26, 2012 WM: Waterville… > Goodrich Rock T… > Davis Boulders > Lower Davis 538 Boulder ● Now I know what it looks like when a political junkie develops a bouldering area. Pretty fascinating statis… View Comment
Oct 24, 2012 Rumney > Meadows > Center Section Hippos on Parade 5.9 ● Downgrade? I could be mistaken, but I feel as though I've always seen this at .8+... If you follow the chal… View Comment
Oct 17, 2012 WM: Franconia N… > Profile Cliff Natural High 5.7 ● This route is one less a piton after today. Certainly spicier in that section, but nothing that's out of ch… View Comment
Aug 6, 2012 -Acadia NP > Precipice aka The S Wall High Wire 5.11c ● Cool climb, very well protected, but I didn't find it any harder than Connecticut cracks... View Comment

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