USAC Routesetting Clinic

Aloha, we BKB routesetters traveled to Central Rock Gym in Hadley, Massachusetts. On the 14th and 15th of September we took part in USA Climbing's Level I routesetting clinic. Here's a little vid showing what it's all about.

City Slickers Part II

Part Deux, some of you may have seen it!

City Slickers Part I

ALOHA, for your viewing pleasure, I give you:

City Slickers, Part I of II. We went, we shralped, we were loud.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO!!!!!

dabathon 2011

Word on the street there's a dabathon happenin' September 10th...that's right. Post-labor day temps woot!

Playmate of the Year

Perhaps you've watched this one already, but I give you: Playmate of the Year. T'is an awesome lowball sloper problem in Joe's Valley. Keepin' the dream alive.

Desert Hipsters

A taste of hoo-hah to come, mustaches and desert dabbing in Joe's Valley circa April 2011.

Unf unf unf.

Dabbing of the Times

Ummm, Garrett just snuck a "Dab" onto the damn NY Times website. WOOT!

“I haven’t competed for 10 years,” said Garrett Koeppicus of Brooklyn. “If this comp wasn’t right in the smack dab of New York City, the place I love and the place I’ve lived for nine years, I’d probably have nothing to do with it.” -GK

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/rock-climbing-stars-to-clamber-in-central-park/

P.S. Plusalso, seriouzly - Dabathon?

AHEM!

P.S. - Will be back in Brooklyn ~ last week of June. Although I will have to continue teh nerding, I want to climb rocks with joo guys. Yeeeeeeessss, dooooo eeettt!!!

Also, Dabathon?! What?! Juss sayin.

xoxo,

CHL

A Day At Boat Rock

Here is a fun little ditty that Mr. Steven O. Sloan put together. A short session at Boat Rock, trying to take advantage of a little drop in temps :)

Hope all is well out there!

xoxo,

CHL



Blog of Stevenosloan

Double Vision

Click images to view diptychs:

Do Bongs

Higher ground proved fruitful on seepy day.

More Sandstone

A couple shots from the other weekend at LRC.

Dave Failla on Mono Doigt v5


Initially, thinking of mono pulling was pretty much a turn off for me, but the pockets scattered up the face turned out to be vurr cool. I bet this thing climbs even better will cool temps. Juicing the first "mono" requires bearing down with the middle finger and stacking the ring and index finger (or whatever u can fit on top of it. You then get a high step on a gunksy pebble or start hold) and crank up to a smaller mono, then balancy move surfing out left to good pocket, jack up feet then either weird-extended-cross move to crimp rail or top out straight up via slopppperz. Like a Boss. A V5 BOSS. OHYAYER.


Now and Zen v6/7


Sharp left hand crimp and slightly less sharp right hand pinch to start. Right heel up on shelf then big move (for me) to accuracy-requiring-bastard-crimp. Adjust feet, catch small crimp out left then fun surfing via jugs to top. This thing was pwning me, kinda threw a wobbler, can't lie. Waaaahhh!!! Oh, bouldering...

asdfasdf. I am vicariously bouldering through blog. Hope there is climbing this weekend. HOLLAH!!

xoxo,
CHL

Photos by Stevenosloan, here is his flickr:
Mr. Sloan's Flickr

Update 1.1

More climbing spots in. Update 1.1 now available in the Apple App store.

New features

Upload GPS tagged photos from your library (purple pins)

See your uploaded photos (Green pins)

See community photos (Red pins)

FB feed and Twitter Feed

Maps maintain last zoom view

Better list view

Who wants to help tag up more of the Gunks?

I'm going to go up sometime next weekday.

SLAAABBB!

The Rib
Three Star v1 @ Little Rock City
Vur Fun, Vur Nice. Do it twice, pls. K? Thx!
Steven O. Sloan floating it.

Also, it is gettin freeking warm down here. Rope action is imminent. Not sure how I feel about that. Pfwah!! Should be good. Maybe. Waaaaah!!
xoxo,
CHL

FRIDAY RE-DUBZ

Some random shots i pulled from the piddly photo pool I haz at the moment. Lots of rain down here lately, this weekend looks like it may be good though! Will hopefully have something fresh for you dabbers then.

Want to climb which joo guuyyysss. Hollah!

Golden Boy

Splashback

Tunnel Vision

OMGZ RE-DUBZ!

Quarte and Deuce My Loade

Big Up to Bissel for channeling the day's energy with this fantastic little vidsky. A muy bueno start to the season.

Gunks Bouldering - March 2011 from e b on Vimeo.

Cliffer

Hey all,

No doubt some of you have heard the news, but our traveling boy has managed to bust his ankle. He's making serious sad face right now, so I'm trying to organize something for him. The cost of the surgery will wipe him clean, and end his trip way, way, way too early.

Check out the page I put up, and if you can, help give our sausage-finger buddy a hand.

cheers.

http://keepcliffclimbing.wordpress.com/

(also, please post/repost. thanks dabbers!)

Street Mosaic

As some of you know, I have been working on launching a digital guidebook. The result has taken some time but Version 1 is officially in the Apple App Store for the iPhone. Here is the Link.

While designed for any type of travel, Street Mosaic origin was actually climbing focused. Now its an easy way to ge0-tag a climb or anything you want. All you have to do is take a pic, write a quick description, and share it.

The app does the mapping and sharing and you can search the database for nearby climbing no matter where you are.

Images people take can help in the actual identification of the climb instead of a hand-drawn pic.

Most importantly, I made it FREE.

Springtime PSYCH!

Something from the way-back machine. I needed some springtime psych, so I went digging through archives this morning. Here are more old photos than you could ever shake a stick at:

(links:)
TK on the FA of Pulled Apart the Horses

Kary on Diesel
Carriage Path Bouldering

Mono Problem!

Fossil Extravaganza

Fossil Extravaganza from Bryant Huffman on Vimeo.

Puerto Rico

420Kru took some dabbers bouldering. ¡Gracias!

Down & Dirty in Smuggler's Notch

Ent gully
Originally uploaded by peter.benchimol