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Climbing in High Tatras - #slovakia.Nice route with long time friends.

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  • ClimbingZineC

    The Art of The First Ascent by Luke Mehall

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    You know you’re getting old when they start replacing the bolts you used for a first ascent. That was my first thought when I heard that an anchor I’d placed, over in my old stomping grounds of Gunnison, Colorado, was getting an update. Story by Luke Mehall. This piece is published in Volume 15, now… https://climbingzine.com/the-art-of-the-first-ascent-by-luke-mehall/
  • GrippedG

    Katie McKinstry Makes History with Hardest Female Drytooling Ascent

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    With her send of Parallel World, Katie McKinstry became the first woman to climb D15+ The post Katie McKinstry Makes History with Hardest Female Drytooling Ascent appeared first on Gripped Magazine. https://gripped.com/profiles/katie-mckinstry-makes-history-with-hardest-female-drytooling-ascent/
  • EpicTVE

    Second Female Ascent go Greenspit 8b+

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhKae1pWoC4
  • climbingC

    Longtime California Climber Arrested on Rape Charges

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    Jason Crist is accused of nine felonies by three women. https://www.climbing.com/news/jason-crist-rape-charges/
  • HowNOT2H

    The All-American Breaktests #climbinggear #breaktest

    Videos climbing hownot2
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXLtFRHQZ8o
  • 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]
  • climbingC

    Alannah Yip’s Top 4 Tips for Sport Projecting

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    How do you figure out impossible moves? Is there a strategic way to rest? How much should you be warming up? It's all here. https://www.climbing.com/skills/sport-climbing/alannah-yip-sport-climbing-advice/
  • climbingC

    Weekend Whipper: This 60-foot Fall Ended “Very Close to the Ground”

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    https://www.climbing.com/videos/trad-climber-nearly-decks/