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Unearthed: Tour de Pump Climbing Competition 1993 video – Featuring Russell Hooper and other rock stars
In 1993 I decided to drive (or ride, as it were) to Boulder, Colorado for the Tour De Pump, an annual climbing competition that featured some of the best sport climbers of the day. Here were the superstars of the climbing world, and to a newly minted climber from Norman, Oklahoma, it was like being…
A bit about the origins of bouldering
For those of you who think bouldering is a recent occurrence in climbing history, think again. There are documented accounts of bouldering that go back at least as far as the 1870s, according to John Gill. http://www128.pair.com/r3d4k7/Bouldering_History1.0.html It’s equally enlightening to see that “practice climbing,” training on man-made climbing wall structures, even in the US…
Photo Reflection: The Thunderhead Boulder
It’s been a while now – perhaps we could call it a generation ago? – that we I had a boulder in my backyard. Built this thing from scratch with some help from friends and family. It’s since been deconstructed but it lives on in images and memories… Related Images:
Storyboard Story
A few years ago (2012), he would have been 5, my son, Summit was asking about movie-making, how movies are dreamed up, how they are created, how they come to be. I thought I’d take him through the process and explain the beginning stages and work through the concepts with him. I explained that movies…
Photo Reflection – Climbing a spire in Mexico
This has always been one of my favorite routes due to its position, exposure and level of adventure. Here on the second pitch of the west Spire, the top of the climb ends at a small pinnacle just big enough for two people to run the rope through a bolted anchor and rappel the south…
Climb Up – A Short Documentary
Jay Sheldon put together a short documentary about our journey from home walls to a climbing gym business. While the video focuses on myself it’s important to say that this arc has been combined with my wife Lisa, my family, and the support of friends over the years. Of course, this is just a hint of…
Photo Reflection: Sisyphus Summits with Andy
How do you know when you’ve had one of the best climbing trips of your life? The answer is that you don’t, until years later when you look back and realize that the experience you had, the people you spent it with, and the lessons you learned have filtered over into the everything else you…
Photo Reflection: Wind River Range – Jerel on Pingora
The year was 2006 and Jerel and I ventured to the Wind River Range in Wyoming to climb Pingora Spire. It was a 12 mile hike in to the Cirque of the Towers. We lucked out with the mosquitos as they weren’t bad – I remember hearing horror stories about a particular time of year…
Photo Reflection: Lisa at Sand Rock, AL
I’m quickly realizing that the dates are hard to pinpoint sometimes because even though the digital file gives a particular date that doesn’t mean it was taken then. This is one from 2000 ( I think) – it wasn’t long after Lisa and I met. We went out to Alabama and toured around some climbing areas.…
Photo Reflection: Bugaboos Approach
I’m going back through my archives of photos to do some individual photo postings along with a short (or maybe in some cases long) blurb about the picture; who, what, where, when, etc. So we’ll kick it off with this one from 1997 (I think) from a month long climbing trip to Alberta and British Columbia.…