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  • GrippedG

    Denver to Host Its First-Ever World Cup

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    The World Cup circuit is coming back to Colorado in 2025 The post Denver to Host Its First-Ever World Cup appeared first on Gripped Magazine. https://gripped.com/indoor-climbing/denver-to-host-its-first-ever-world-cup/
  • American Alpine ClubA

    Guidebook XII—Member Spotlight

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    “Driving towards Highway 285, we pass strips of red rock cutting through the foothills of Morrison in Colorado’s Front Range, chasing the promise of new climbs. In the front seat, Josh Pollock describes the Narrow Gauge Slab, a new crag he has been developing in Jefferson County. Pollock is the type of person who points out the ecology of the world around him. As the car weaves along the mid-elevation Ponderosa Pine forest, Pollock describes how we’ll see cute pin cushion cacti, black-chinned or broad-tailed hummingbirds, and Douglas-fir tussock moth caterpillars. We pull into a three-level parking lot about seven miles down the Pine Valley Ranch Road. With no cell service and heavy packs, we set off along an old railroad trail toward the crag. Not even ten minutes into our walk, Pollock turns off, and we are greeted by a Jeffco trail crew building switchbacks to the crag.” https://americanalpineclub.org/news/2024/11/20/the-guidebook-xii
  • UK ClimbingU

    Will Bosi flashes Dune, 8B+

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    Will Bosi has made a flash ascent of Jana vecov's Dune, 8B+, atStaechovck Lom, Czech Republic. https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=776009
  • chrishockman@social.chinwag.orgC

    Climbing Escalade Canada gains Canadian Paralympic Committee Membership

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    Canada has added a new sport to its Paralympic program smartly getting ahead of 2028 https://paralympicsportsnews.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/climbing-escalade-canada-gains-canadian-paralympic-committee-membership/ #Climbing #Paralympics
  • GrippedG

    Climbing Norway’s Hardest Mixed Route

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    A new video just dropped featuring some hard winter climbing and a first ascent The post Climbing Norway’s Hardest Mixed Route appeared first on Gripped Magazine. https://gripped.com/news/climbing-norways-hardest-mixed-route/
  • IFSCI

    Para Climbing finals | Arco 2024

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR--Ze2GxXo
  • devnullD

    Does gate direction matter on a hanger? (more practice board faffery)

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    Today I was supposed to host an informal skills clinic with a climber new to the outdoors, and teach them the basics of anchor cleaning. They ended up rescheduling, so I had some time to waste. We're usually taught to clip draws with the gate facing away from the direction of the next bolt/pro, but if you're clipping a hanger (as opposed to a glue-in), could the biner rotate, and have the gate opened by the bolt itself? I tried with an extendable draw I had, and it took some doing, but it was definitely possible. Rope movement can make a draw do funny things, and extendable draws in particular love to flip orientation. Lots of seemingly impossible things have happened to unattended protection! This doesn't really apply to local crags here since bolts here are glue-ins, with exception of the anchor, but food for thought. All the same it seems the advice to clip with the gate facing away from direction of travel still seems to supercede this niche edge case. [image: 1726449887485-pxl_20240916_011132217-resized.jpg] [image: 1726449891860-pxl_20240916_011143499-resized.jpg] [image: 1726449898882-pxl_20240916_011243263.mp-resized.jpg] [image: 1726449903000-pxl_20240916_011433464_exported_1433.jpg]
  • GrippedG

    Ice Climber Bails Off Sketchy Thin USA Ice

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    https://gripped.com/video/ice-climber-bails-off-sketchy-thin-usa-ice/