Steepteam Bouldering

Saturday found the team and myself bouldering outside. We had great weather for a late October day. I gave the team a tour of the 3 main boulders at Phipps Park, and then watched the sendfest begin. Great to hear kids saying how awesome it is to boulder outside. The highlight was getting on the rarely done "Dyno Problem" V5-6 and working it out until an eventual send by Ben.

The Thigh Hooker (V0)

Forrest on the Cube Slab V3

Cody Bouldering IV

While the snow falls, Tanner gives the Holy Horizontal Arete (V5) a go.

We committed to the drive down to Cody to find nice occasional sun and grippy temperatures. With Tanner, Jeremy, Art, Clint, Snyder and myself working our way around the Sphinx area, we got on Coffee Skills (V6) Billings Coffee Skills (V5) Holy Horizontal Arete (V5) Nathan's Problem (V5) Mini Cave Left (V4) Toadstool V3) Holy Horizontals (V3) Terrible Twos (V3) The Sphinxter (V3) Toadstool (V1) The Sphinxter (V0) and Smiley (Vo). My first time I bouldered at the Sphinx I was with team kids and parents. Thus making today sort of was my first time really climbing in the area, and it took me a while to warm up to the problems being very eliminate in nature. I flashed my first Cody V5, but also have gotten shut down by three V3's in the past week, go figure.

Snyder crimping down on The Wanna Be V6 (V5).

Joel about to take a big fall on Holy Horizontals (V3).

Cody Bouldering III

Mike on the Hueco Traverse V2

Sunny but brisk day in Cody with Nate, Ben, Mike, Miles, Angela, Clint, and Synder. Problems climbed were Studs V8, Babies for Breakfast V7, Sugar Pie V6, Medusa V5, Tuna Town V5, The Bludgeoning V5, Spear Chucker V4, Perseus V4, Hueco Simulator V3, With or Without Sugar V3, Hueco Traverse V2, Special K V1, and a host of other moderates. Camera settings were off tilt all day so not much for quality photos.

Clint on the Sugar Pie V6.

Snyder giving it a good run on the V9 crack on the Spear Point Boulder.

Chicago

Anya ran the Chicago Marathon last weekend in 3:55. Elvis did not finish.

Cody Bouldering II

The Antelope Boulder.  The single greatest boulder in the state of Wyoming. 

We rolled up with a full car from Billings with Jay, Nate, Ben, Ryan, and myself to find the most wonderful conditions.  We met up with beta masters McClintock and Dylan from Cody  Routes that were sent were Pocahontas (V6)  Meathook (V5)  Shyza (V4) The Tuk (V3)  Home on the Range (V3)  Palm Pilot (V3)   The Muncher (V3)  Arnold Palmer (V2) and Where's the Beef (V0).  Routes that were heavily worked were Snytonga (V9)  Shyza Shyza (V7)  Finger Paint (V7) and the Antelope Half Traverse (V5).

Ryan working the Antelope Half Traverse (V5)

Ben climbing Arnold Palmer (V2)

Nate so close to sending Snytonga (V9)

Jay working Shyza Shyza (V7)

Joel working Shyza Shyza (V7).  I will be back with fresh hands.

The Recent Quest for the Microclimb

Joel sending The Sherman Problem Stand Start (V5)

My interest in climbing has recently swung to the micro climb.  Bouldering.  There is a certain beauty in working out the hardest moves possible without the rope on smaller garage sized boulders.  I've been coaching bouldering for the past three years but really haven't put in the time to see what I can do outside, until now, and I'm having a blast.  It's been like finding a new sport and I've really been inspired some of the others I've had a chance to boulder with the past few weeks.

Ben sending the Assassin (V9)

Nate on a still un-named V4

Forrest working the Sherman Warm-Up (V2)