Give it up for Midwestern boy killin' it at the Ouray Ice Comp!

Midwestern born Nathan Kutcher cranked out a first place victory in his first time competing at the 2012 Ouray Ice Fest comp beating out a great field of mixed competitors. Check out the alpinist newswire for an overview of the event. Good on ya Chossmonkey!!

Yeah, awesome job Nathan! Bare-handed too!

Yea Nathan! Way to represent!

Awesome, I thought I recognized that name!

Some cool pics from the comp via Denver Post:

photos.denverpost.com/media…

'Midwestern'? Story I read says he's from Canada. Where are his ice origins anyway? Da UP' as an American or Canadian?

Where is he from?

Born in Minnesota and lived in Central Wisconsin for a long time. He was always silently crankin' as hard as anyone. Very humble, yet inspiring person to climb with.

Even though he is a midwestern transplant to Canada, he has a heavier "Canadian" (upper-midwestern) accent than his wife, who actually is a native-born Canadian.

Rock and Ice wrote a bit on the comp. Am I the only one who detects some butthurt at his winning?

rockandice.com/news/1767-tn…

Oh some definate butthurt in that article about his winning, ridiculous really. Thanks Eric

I don't know how you could separate the butthurt from the piss poor writing.

The author of the R&I article just uses a poor analogy of the peanut brittle and snake gag to illustrate how he felt, making it sound like the result of the comp was unfavorable. But if you read the rest of the article you realize he enjoyed watching the win. It's just awkward writing.

Stich wrote:But if you read the rest of the article you realize he enjoyed watching the win. It's just awkward writing.

I got the impression that he didn't see a lot of the win, because he was too busy looking down at his program roster to see who the next sponsored radguy up to bat was. I just would have expected a bit more psych and appreciation, especially since Raleigh also honed his climbing chops in a peripheral area (Oklahoma).

Erieguardless, it was awesome to see Nathan win. B-Team represent!

Thanks guys!!

I was just super psyched to be accepted to compete. Winning was unbelievable!!

I didn't start climbing ice until just before moving to Canada. I was living in Buffalo,NY at the time and was pretty much already here. My 1st time on ice was here in Canada and with the exception of a few short trips I'm pretty much Ontario grown when it comes to ice and mixed.

I owe a huge thanks to James Loveridge who answered countless questions and gave invaluable advise in my early days and even right up to the point of the comp. He also developed a kick ass mixed crag that I had the good fortune of spending a couple days at a few years back while home for X-Mas. It was one of the few times I have had the opportunity to really test my skills out and where I found out I might actually be good at drytooling. Without James I don't think Ouray would have happened for me, at least not this year.

nathankutcher wrote:Thanks guys!! I was just super psyched to be accepted to compete. Winning was unbelievable!! I didn't start climbing ice until just before moving to Canada. I was living in Buffalo,NY at the time and was pretty much already here. My 1st time on ice was here in Canada and with the exception of a few short trips I'm pretty much Ontario grown when it comes to ice and mixed. I owe a huge thanks to James Loveridge who answered countless questions and gave invaluable advise in my early days and even right up to the point of the comp. He also developed a kick ass mixed crag that I had the good fortune of spending a couple days at a few years back while home for X-Mas. It was one of the few times I have had the opportunity to really test my skills out and where I found out I might actually be good at drytooling. Without James I don't think Ouray would have happened for me, at least not this year.

Great Job!!