Bouldering in Norway
Nalle Hukkataival and Kuutti Huhtikorpi bouldering in Norway. Areas featured: Harbak, Vingsand and Lofoten Islands.
Author Archive: Scott Sanchez
Just a bouldering junkie looking for great problems that inspire me to keep pushing myself and just get out and climb.
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Black Mountain Bouldering
Featuring lots of hard new climbs from Black Mountain California, several first ascents including Vorpal Blade V13, a few old classics such as Morphic Resonance, a guest appearance from Sarah Palin and even a highball or two.
Stoney Point – tilt shift teaser
“Stoney Point: Portrait of an American Crag” is a feature length documentary based on the unique history and climbing culture of a small city park on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Though often overlooked, few climbing areas can compare with the rich and storied history of Stoney Point. For the last 80 years the Point […]
Dean Potter: ‘King Air’ First Ascent
The Le Conte boulder, also known as the House Keeping boulder, is in Yosemite Valley, California. For more than a decade, I’d been trying to figure out the proudest, tallest line on the block, with no luck. One day, I was playing with my sister Jenny’s kids, Cyrus and Dahlia, in the forest amongst the […]
Nalle Hukkataival climbing in the Grampians of Australia
Black Diamond athlete Nalle Hukkataival spent most of September 2011 down in Australia, climbing on the beautiful and bullet stone of the Grampians. We had Keith Ladzinski on the scene to capture the action and he came back with gigs of quality footage—so many gigs of footy that it took he and his partner at […]
James Kassay on Zeus (V13), Grampians, Australia
This problem does not go anywhere, but V13 is V13, well done James! James Kassay got a bit of revenge this June when he dispatched Zeus, a V13 problem in the Grampians of Australia that had blown his A4 pulley earlier in the year.
The Beginning Again
I start climbing in 1987, I was 23 years old. A close friend of mine Craig Pearson introduced me to a sport that I fell in love with after my first attempt to scale his 20′ high artificial wall built in his front yard. Since that time I have jumped back in and out of […]
Off The Books” V11 & “Recession Proof” V9
Bouldering at Clear Creek Canyon during this time of the year is great. Yesterday John Gass, Alex Manikowski, Ben and I went back to a problem called “Off the Books” with the hopes of finishing it. On one of my goes I was able to get my left hand on the finish hold but my […]
Nalle Hukkataival flashing Crown of Aragorn (V13)
Nalle Hukkataival flashing Crown of Aragorn (V13) in Hueco Tanks, Texas.
Centerfold V10 FA and A Few Repeats Poudre Cyn, CO
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