I like local flavor. While you can probably get some of this info off rockclimbing.com or some other mega rock climbing website, I think local is the way to go and I want to showcase this great website. BooneBoulders.com
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I like local flavor. While you can probably get some of this info off rockclimbing.com or some other mega rock climbing website, I think local is the way to go and I want to showcase this great website. BooneBoulders.com Red Lantern is most definitely a burly route that requires a little bit of lunacy to climb. It got its name from a very random rusted out red lantern near the start of the climb. I have no idea how it got there but I do wonder who brings an ancient lantern out to [...] Developing near virgin North Carolina rock can be described in one word: dirty. Lichen grows everywhere and every route literally has to be cleaned and cleared as you go. Luckily we came prepared and our rack included one of those steel bristled BBQ grill brushes to hopefully make easy work of a dirty job. But [...] ROCK!!! That would be the word of the day while developing this undocumented wall near Table Rock in North Carolina. Wes and Ben were by no means the first people to explore this wall. There were already a couple of lines bolted with modern equipment when they got there but it was obvious from the overgrown [...] Full Value. That is the best way I can describe Construction Job on Shortoff Mountain. It boils down to three pitches totaling about 300 ft that go at 5.5, 5.7 and then 5.9. But those boiled down stats don’t even begin to describe the actual climb. Finding the route is relatively straightforward because Straight and Narrow [...] Energy Czar is a 5.11 sport route on David’s Castle Wall at Crowders Mountain. It is pretty popular as it is near Caterpillar, a 5.7 chimney, and Electra, a 5.10c sport line. I don’t really have all that much to say about it but I wanted to post some pictures I took while I was [...] I wish I could say that I’ve climbed Electra at Crowder’s Mountain but alas that would be a lie and after filing my taxes I think I have lied enough lately. Electra is a 5.10c sport route on David’s Castle Wall of Crowder’s Mountain and is definitely one of the more popular lines. It’s near [...] Thanks to ClimbingNarc for reporting that Simon Carter provided an update (link) on the bad bolt and cut rope accident. In the update there is even a video that shows the the bolts being pulled out entirely too easily. Check it out. It is straight up scary. The jist of this very in depth accident review is that incorrect bolts were used which caused them to pop with just body weight on them. The accident report goes into a lot of detail and is well worth the read. Simon Carter’s Accident Report North Carolina is known for its lack of sport climbing and its abundance of friction climbing. North Carolina is definitely not known for its crack climbing, yet somehow Rumbling Bald has been blessed with four amazing, moderate splitters all within a 100 feet of each other. |
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