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Oct 3, 2025 S Idaho > Shoshone Lava T… > "Little" Cave Return of the Jewel Thief 5.9+ ● Lucas, you appear to have a personality disorder. I'm admittedly not entirely sure if this is my personal v… View Comment
May 23, 2025 Eastern Sierra > Bishop Area > Owens River Gorge > Upper Gorge > Gorgeous Towers Come On Gorgeous!! 5.11a ● Euan, care to elucidate which part of my post that you removed violated policies? Perhaps you took issue… View Comment
Apr 17, 2025 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite Bittersweet 5.11b ● Oh yeah, this is a neat little line! It was bolted a while back by Craig Farry He named the route Bit… View Comment
Nov 4, 2024 W Idaho > Black Cliffs > Short Cliffs Desperate Indulgence 5.11a ● The lowest bolt serves as back-up for the horizontal purple metolius. View Comment
Oct 24, 2024 Wasatch Range > … > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > China Wall > China Slab Narcosis 5.10a/b ● Route name is Narcosis. FA Bill Boyle. Bill actually fell/slipped from the top out above the upper chimey b… View Comment
Oct 17, 2024 Wasatch Range > … > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite > Beef Dinno (5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a) Custom draws that were removed (or stolen) from the route around Oct 4th ● It took almost exactly two years, but the draw thief was caught with the stolen draws on his rack at a loca… View Comment
Jun 6, 2024 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Boil Oil 5.10d ● The route name is known as Boil Oil … Bolted and FA’d by a visiting French climber Jose Maman. View Comment
May 2, 2024 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite Limestone Cowboy 5.12a ● Clear the final roof and continue on to the logical finish of this line at the uppermost anchors. This fini… View Comment
May 2, 2024 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite Adios Amigos 5.12b ● The FQ Kingline. Also certainly a contender for one of the canyons finest routes. A redpoint feels equal i… View Comment
May 1, 2024 W Idaho > Black Cliffs > Dark Side T.V.O.D. 5.12b ● I actually forgot about this route and the times I’d climbed it years ago before you posted this- I’m glad… View Comment
Apr 26, 2024 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Gate Buttress > E Gate Buttress Speed Of Life 5.11d R ● I gotta say, I always thought that “past user” sure seemed like a grade-fluffing pillow-biter. Sounds lik… View Comment
Apr 10, 2024 Central Utah > Joe's Valley > Right Fork > No Substance No Substance V8 ● Finally Greg posts a quality beta video with a lot of substance! I confess in such days of darkness I fe… View Comment
Mar 24, 2024 Central Oregon > Smith Rock > (f) Cocaine Gully (f) Cocaine Gully \| 0407 5.12b ● That’s quite an imagination you have Artem. Sincerely. 20+ years ago when this route was first bolted,… View Comment
Oct 15, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Betagraph Betagraphic 5.11c ● So close to a perfect 4 stars! A fine route! View Comment
Oct 15, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Betagraph Babe-a-licious 5.10d ● A top-tier route throughout the whole canyon- not to be missed. View Comment
Oct 10, 2023 Joshua Tree NP > … 1 > Geology Tour Rd… > Towers of Uncer… > Lava Dome > Hot Flashes (5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c) For some reason these bolt heads appear to be covered in epoxy. The rock quality is pretty bad underneath the patina but I'm not sure if the bolter tried to make diy glue-in with a five-piece mechanical bolt or what. I opted to TR this one. ● Looks like they used the epoxy to prohibit a socket or wrench from allowing the removal of the bolt. Art… View Comment
Sep 30, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Nuclear Fingers 5.12b ● Very surprised to say I found this to be the least enjoyable route of all the frontside of 385 has to offer… View Comment
Sep 29, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Capstone 5.12c ● The only real reason to climb Nuclear Fingers is the upper finish on Capstone! Far better than what’s belo… View Comment
Sep 28, 2023 Wasatch Range > … > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Right Hand Fork > Hobbit Caves Ram Gap 5.8+ ● Poorly conceived and poorly executed route View Comment
Aug 20, 2023 Wasatch Range > Wasatch Back Echo Canyon ● @Lee The Echo Canyon Formation is indeed a soft, generally poor quality conglomerate. It is C grade or e… View Comment
Jul 25, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Goat Debris 5.11a ● Thanks to ASCA for quality and durable hardware that was installed on this route! Please consider a donatio… View Comment
Jul 22, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Pigs in a Blankie 5.11c ● The 5.11c grade only refers to Pigs in a Blankie (Pigs), not Pig in a Python (5.12b) Pig in a Python trend… View Comment
Jul 18, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Paleface 5.13a ● Route can be climbed with a 50m rope… right about 80ft (23m) to the anchor View Comment
Jul 18, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Directional Arms 5.12b ● IMO an ascent of Direction Arms involves both the direct arete start, and the upper extension past Conventi… View Comment
Jul 16, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Conventional Arms 5.11b/c ● Thanks to ASCA for quality and durable hardware that was installed on this route! Please consider a donatio… View Comment
Jul 16, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Spin doctor 5.11d ● Thanks to ASCA for quality and durable hardware that was installed on this route! Please consider a donatio… View Comment
Jul 16, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Hat Trick 5.11a ● Thanks to ASCA for quality and durable hardware that was installed on this route! Please consider a donatio… View Comment
Jun 27, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite Saturday Mourning 5.11b/c ● Is “Satuday” a typo? Was this route formerly known as “Toxic Sphincter Syndrome”? View Comment
Jun 27, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Friendly Fire 5.11b ● FA Boyle, Mitchel Tricky foot work and surprisingly artful gear. Likely a three-star trad climb for L… View Comment
Jun 27, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Mile 385 Area Stormin' Norman 5.11c ● FA Boyle, Barnes, Mitchel Rebolted with bomber and beautiful single-leg Raumer glue-ins! Although thi… View Comment
Jun 16, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite Cannonball 5.10c ● This route wouldn’t be amazing if it was a different route that was amazing. Just pass. View Comment
Jun 16, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite Nebulous Precision 5.10d ● This weird route has a very contrived start- it should have began to the right up the blocky ramp. Also… View Comment
Jun 13, 2023 Southwest Utah > … > Snow Canyon SP > Island In The Sky > Circus Wall > Barbarian (5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b R) Still doing routes after 60+ years of climbing... ● Whatever his process, I’m sure it’s 100% safe. Only the gods survived more time living in the mountains… View Comment
Jun 13, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Big Cottonwood… > Moss Ledges Al’s Ascend 3rd V0-1 R ● Yeah! He sounds like a washed up, middle-aged has-been jerk! Jealous of Slaydies I suppose View Comment
Jun 11, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite Garden of Cucumbers 5.12c/d ● The “Amplitheater” where this GOC route is found up canyon and up-trail a short bit from Star Shart. Th… View Comment
Jun 11, 2023 Wasatch Range > Northern Wasatch > Cache Valley > Logan Canyon > Fucoidal Quartzite Bird Shit Banana Split 5.11c ● Garden of Cucumbers shares the start of this BSBS for 4-5 bolts and then cuts hard diagonal left at an obvi… View Comment

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