Was motivating to see a couple of Japan’s strongest in action on Burden of Dreams today @saruzaemon9 @ryohei_kame. And equally impressive to see the accurate reproduction holds they’ve been training on! Rad to see technology enabling new things and ways in climbing. Wish Toru and Ryohei best with their efforts on Burden! Gamba!💪👍 @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Was motivating to see a couple of Japan’s strongest in action on Burden of Dreams today @saruzaemon9 @ryohei_kame. And equally impressive to see the accurate reproduction holds they’ve been training on! Rad to see technology enabling new things and ways in climbing. Wish Toru and Ryohei best with their efforts on Burden! Gamba!💪👍 @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Bonsai (V14) one of Hueco’s best hard ones found and opened by @dave_graham_ and first ascent by @jwebxl.📍Top of West Mountain @syknar with the video. @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Last year I opened this project in Red Rocks and after putting in the work was close to climbing it – falling off the last move. Then frigid winter temperatures claimed the canyon. Even sticking around for two more months trying to seal the deal, I never got a fighting chance. Returning for a rematch this winter I routinely worked my way back to where I‘d been – hoping to get an actual shot this year. It was really refreshing to finally session the boulder with someone. @jwebxl and @dawoods89 had teamed up earlier this winter to take it down. Their beta however was of no use for me. Ultimately the boulder is about a friction sloper crux with a barely-there bicycle to gain the slot crimp. Jimmy and Daniel both had the arm-span to bypass this sequence so I was alone fighting my own fight. This low percentage, friction reliant sequence – combined with my skin issues in the desert – made for low odds to catch the conditions I required. Half the “climbing” days consisted of just showing up and not being able to get any grip on the rock. Or do any climbing. It all boiling down to weather watching and very little actual climbing put a big dent in my motivation and made me question whether it’s even worthwhile to keep dragging myself out there day after day. Yesterday I sent it. It was quite anticlimactic. It didn’t seem like anything that I hadn’t already done 10 times. My skin just didn’t fail me that time. I‘m happy it didn’t. All in all, stoked!! Also a lesson to be learned about how not every battle is necessarily worth fighting. I struggle when climbing becomes all about managing external factors and very minimally about the actual climbing. Just hours later another winter storm put an end to climbing here for a while. You’re bound to get lucky every now and then! Yes!! 🎰🍾 In-depth video piece coming from @mindframecinema @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
The Mondo-ledge 📷@westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
@dawoods89 trying Vantablack – rad little 8B I opened last winter ⚫️ @BLACKdiamond @lasportivagram
@dawoods89 trying Vantablack – rad little 8B I opened last winter ⚫️ @BLACKdiamond @lasportivagram
@dawoods89 trying Vantablack – rad little 8B I opened last winter ⚫️ @BLACKdiamond @lasportivagram
Things are coming together on the line in Black Velvet! Weather has finally been great the past week and @dawoods89 returned for round 2. Daniel and Jimmy have a new way to get around the crux – no such luck for me with my arm span, so I’m working on my invisible bicycle sloper match and one-inch-punch to the slot crimp. Feeling good on it and hoping the weather will be on our side for some more days! Yesterday Daniel got as close as it can get and punted off the very last move. So much more motivating to be working this thing together with someone! Good times in Red Rocks so far! @blackdiamond @lasportivagram #bouldering
🇦🇷 #tuzgle @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Charles Albert (@barefoot_charles) making headlines in Fontainebleau with his first ascent of No Kpote Only proposing 9A (V17) – first of the grade in Fontainebleau and second in the world! #bouldering
Charles Albert (@barefoot_charles) making headlines in Fontainebleau with his first ascent of No Kpote Only proposing 9A (V17) – first of the grade in Fontainebleau and second in the world! #bouldering
Frequent flyer miles 📸 @mlloyd8 @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Frequent flyer miles 📸 @mlloyd8 @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Lots of this lately 📷 @ignaciomulero @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Cruisin Hueco @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Altitude sickness. Sunburns. Rad boulders everywhere. Unforgettable first week in the Argentinian altiplano! 📷 @mlloyd8 @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Bouncing around on Dawn Wall 📽 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Chile 🇨🇱 @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Chile 🇨🇱 @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Chile 🇨🇱 @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
#Olympicdreams with @dawoods89 video by @mindframecinema @lasportivagram @blackdiamond