tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196743112012-02-08T09:00:39.004-08:00Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.comBlogger1491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-15320457678838920202012-02-06T22:39:00.000-08:002012-02-08T08:47:59.969-08:00

Here is a little video of Saturday's send. Big thanks to Alex Chujo for capturing the footage and putting this together! What you can't really tell from the video is just how small and sharp that right hand crimp is! Stay psyched everyone, and see you out on the rocks!

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com0Horse Flats, Angeles National Forest, CA 93553, USA34.3461103 -118.010345134.3330003 -118.03008609999999 34.3592203 -117.9906041tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-52693311155309837312012-02-05T20:52:00.000-08:002012-02-08T08:47:59.976-08:00

Horse Flats is an area in the San Gabriel Mountains that I visited frequently for bouldering when I was in High School. I had not been up there in years, so I figured it would be a nice change of pace this Saturday to get Natalie (a young competitor that I coach) on some new granite boulders. I had forgotten just how good the rock is up there, as well as how long the hike is with two gates on the

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Well I logged a lot of time outdoors this weekend!  After spending Saturday coaching at my old stomping grounds of Malibu Creek with young comp crusher Natalie Josefsberg and her father Ken (who was a very good sport about having to traverse 5.8 terrain over water when he'd never done any technical climbing before), I was psyched to cruise with Brett up to Black Mountain on Sunday to try to put

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Brought to you by the folks over at Scientia Climbing comes this great video of Twilight of the Idols. Looks like they were there the day two days before our crew went up this weekend. It's actually odd for two groups of climbers to visit this part of the mountain in such close succession. This is not an area where you typically run into other climbers! Check out their awesome video of this

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Don't let my last post fool you. Training does not exclude climbing on real rock. I have spent five of the last seven days climbing and training, but in spite of the nagging soreness from Saturday's bouldering session at Hangar 18 in Riverside, I couldn't say no when Ian McIntosh shot me a text asking if I wanted to head up to Black Mt on Sunday. Ian, Bridget, Diego and I headed up to the

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So I'm SUPER motivated right now. My trip to London provided a nice rest from climbing, allowing my body to heal from the usual three to four days of climbing I do each week. Reading Max's frequent updates and watching the kids crush at ABS Youth Divisionals in Tucson this past weekend have been good motivators to train extra hard for a while to see if I can muster a little new strength and send

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So I'm back in Los Angeles, after a nice 9 day vacation visiting Maya in London. I gotta say, though I took my camera, I didn't take it out once during the entire trip! I know, I know, epic fail. Suffice it to say that I gave my body a rest from climbing and we ate like kings the whole time I was there. Yesterday was the boulder set at Rockreation West LA, and we got a lot of great new problems

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Yesterday, Craig and I went up to Twilight of the Idols, heralded by its handful of ascensionists as one of the best v10s in California. I had never been to the problem before and was excited to see it, and Craig was psyched to try to send, after a few days of sunshine had melted out the worst of last week's snow.  We parked off of the road to The Republic, when Craig's minivan wouldn't make

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Well here is the "uncut footage" of Eden and I both sending Super Nova (v10) at the Jupiter Boulders. It is worth noting that the left hand compression hold in the overhang is a horrible sloping angle change, rather than a real "hold" and that the first few right hand holds aren't much better. I haven't done many hard compression boulders, so I was pretty darn psyched about this one! Eden

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Sunday, Itai and Eden Axelrad and I drove out to meet Anthony Tarascio for a day of bouldering. Our original intention was to check out some of the lower elevation stuff at Black Mt, but with a heavy cloud shrouding the mountain and dumping snow, we decided to check out the Jupiter Boulders, near Palm Springs. Considering that the parking area is a local firing range, we parked the cars and ran

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Sunday, Anthony Tarascio and I cruised up to Black Mt and met Ian and Bridget for an awesome day of granite bouldering in perfect conditions. Although the second gate on the road up to Black is closed, a quick(ish) 2.5 mile uphill hike landed us at the OK Corral in about 40 minutes. Unfortunately, I'm an idiot and forgot to charge my Nikon battery, but my cell phone has a shitty camcorder app,

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Sunday I met Hans, Elliot, and others out at Black Velvet Canyon for an awesome day of bouldering. Hans warming up by linking "Wet Dream Right" (v11) to its top (He sent the problem previously)   Elliot working the same. A helicopter made laps (drills?) in  and out of the canyon.   Hans working "Wet Dream"        

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-35998185040894143882011-11-26T11:55:00.001-08:002011-12-02T07:29:55.377-08:00

I spent the Friday after Thanksgiving out bouldering at Red Springs and the Kraft Boulders. My goal was to finish UltraViolet (v8/9), which I fell off the last move of last January first. I ran into Craig and Elliot, whom I know from Black Mountain, and the three of us warmed up and charged up the hill to the striking overhung arete. The hillside above Red Springs Craig executing the first

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-18694744118947488552011-11-23T23:47:00.001-08:002011-11-24T23:08:38.168-08:00

I spent last weekend, my "week after birthday weekend," in Bishop with a great group of friends. After a cold Friday night we arose to a beautiful Saturday, which we decided to spend in the Buttermilks. Basin Mountain and Mt Tom, as seen from the Birthday Boulders Anthony working out the bottom of "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," my new obsession. "Little T" working the magic

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-64748631286571151762011-11-15T09:47:00.001-08:002011-12-05T10:00:49.319-08:00

Well I probably should have not climbed this weekend because of my hurt pinky, but really the only thing that kept our crew from climbing up at Black Mt this Sunday was the fact that it had rained or snowed a few days last week, including Saturday, and we didn't want to risk the road being too messed up and/or dripping wet boulders. Instead, I opted for hard sessions of setting and bouldering at

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Haha, well the title pretty much explains itself. Saturday, after I finished coaching during the youth portion of the ABS competition in Riverside, I decided to participate in the adult comp. The setting at Hangar 18 was great, and all the competitors had a great time on the technical and powerful problems. Unfortunately, at about seven or eight problems in (still warming up), I decided to try a

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This weekend before Halloween was pretty good to the Tarascio brothers and myself. On Friday, Anthony and Michael Tarascio went up to Black Mt and both ended up sending something, with Michael flashing Moondrops (v6/7?) and Anthony getting the first ascent of a project he and Ian have been working on for a while, dubbing it Brotherhood, v10. The new line climbs some powerful moves out a steep

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Saturday, Brett and I went up to Black Mt, where we were to meet a very strong young climber, Natalie Josefsberg, and her father, Ken, for a day of showing Natalie around some classics of Black Mt. While I'm glad to say that Brett was able to fill in for me as tour guide/coach, I'm unhappy to report that I was stricken with heinous food poisoning for the majority of the day. Ken was kind enough

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UPDATE about Saturday: Saturday, Brett, Marina, and Matt drove up to Black Mt to try to close the book on a few of their projects. If you've been following this blog, you've seen countless photos of Brett and Marina on Tour de France sit and stand, respectively. Well apparently it was a good day for the crew, and Brett sent TdF sit first try of the day for his first v10! Congrats dude! I wasn't

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-32848023023148502852011-10-14T09:18:00.000-07:002011-10-14T09:19:42.135-07:00

Max and Lib finished the Priest Draw segment of their 5,000 Miles video series, and it is really impressive. Check it out HERE to see tons of footage of my favorite type of climbing, horizontal roofs, on problems ranging from v0 to v11. http://blocheadclimbing.blogspot.com/2011/10/5000-miles-part-3-priest-draw.html

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UPDATED  to include a second Ex-Pat fail. Sunday was another day of fun at Black Mountain. The temps keep getting better, and it was pretty chilly by the end of the day. Kris, Anthony and I were joined by our new friends Luke Cudney and Cerre Francis, freshly transplanted from SLC, and we were looking forward to giving them a good tour of Black Mt. We started by heading over to the top of

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Thanks to my buddies Max (blochead) and Liberty for putting this rad video together. I'm embedding it here, but really you should go to his Vimeo channel and watch all the cool stuff he's got on there. And without further ado: Captain America V9, Black Mountain, CA from BLOCHEAD on Vimeo.

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Saturday was the 1st of October, and what better way to start a month than by getting up to Black Mountain for a full day of shredding ourselves on SoCal granite? Brett and I were finally able to lure our friend Drew Mylrea out of the confines of the gym and out onto the boulders. Although Drew insisted that it was going to be his first time outside, a little prying proved that he'd bouldered

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Sunday was another day trip to Black Mountain with Brett and Marina, and what an inspiring day it was. The temps are starting to get really good, and the gate that allows access to the upper parts of the mountain is still open until the first big snow, so I recommend everyone getting up there as much as possible now that the season is in full effect! We warmed up slowly and after laps on the

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It was another great weekend at Black Mt. Friends were meeting up there from all over, and we were all ready for a mega couple of days of perfect granite bouldering. Max and Liberty  drove up from Vegas on Friday and reserved us the best campsite for the weekend, and on Saturday Brett, Marina, and I drove up to meet them. We were joined also by "Ninja" Kris and Sarah, Anthony Tarascio, Ian

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Saturday was one of the best days of bouldering I've ever experienced, and I can probably say that for the rest of the crew that went up to Black Mt as well. Not necessarily in terms of sending for everyone, but the temps were finally starting to feel good and the psych was HUGE. Marina, Brett and I were joined by Charlie Andrews, who, along with his older sister, actually used to be on the old

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I raced down the PCH Friday after work to go pick up Jeff Blum for a Labor Day weekend of climbing in Vegas. We had planned to boulder Saturday, sport climb Sunday, and see if our bodies could handle either one by Monday. Considering the record highs hitting Black Mt, the cool limestone caves of Mt. Charleston seemed like our best bet for climbable temps. Saturday, we got picked up by Max and

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Saturday, Eden and Itai Axelrad, Marina Campana, and I headed up to Black Mt for what was forecast to be a day of record heat. Because it was the twins' last opportunity to climb at Black before heading back to their respective universities, we decided to brave the heat and see if we could at least squeeze an evening session in. As it turned out, the 20% chance of showers turned into a serious

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Friday afternoon I left work and hit the road for Vegas. I had a few errands to attend to, such as smogging and renewing the registration on my brother's car that he so graciously lets me borrow while he is living in Japan (thanks Dave), so I made plans also to hook up with my friend Max Moore (Blochead) and check out the bouldering cave that Craig Berman and he were developing up on Mt.

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-50495195959863516622011-08-17T22:40:00.000-07:002011-09-20T14:40:29.788-07:00

For lack of anything to share recently, here is a picture of Ofer Blutrich on "Hard Starts," 5.13c, in Gita, Israel.

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Well I was doing pretty well there with the weekly bouldering updates, but I didn't get outside two weekends ago due to rain up at the Tramway and Black on Sunday, then this past weekend was the boulder set at Rockreation, which I had/wanted to participate in, and this coming weekend I probably won't be getting out either .. sooo in lieu of any cool content from me, check out my buddy Max and his

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Saturday morning a crew of five of us left the noise and smog of LA to try to send some stuff up at Black Mountain. "How were the temps?" you may ask. Well, they were pretty much horrible, except for in the shade where they were tolerable. It was not an optimal sending day, but that didn't slow down Itai Axelrad one bit. Our first stop was the Future Wall, a beautiful overhanging piece of perfect

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It was an amazing weekend at Black Mt, yet again. I left LA Friday afternoon and camped Friday and Saturday nights, allowing me to get in two perfect days of bouldering (well it was a little hot in the mid-day sun, but chasing shade actually provided the occasional chill). The sunset on Friday was gorgeous as always, and the following morning I discovered that my campsite was surrounded by a

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-78422559573372411402011-07-07T10:09:00.000-07:002011-07-18T21:43:45.387-07:00

NO, this post is not in reference to the epic bike race that just finished its 6th stage in Lisieux, France.I'm talking about the amazing overhanging wall and boulder problem at Black Mountain.Pic stolen form Alan Moore's blog and taken by someone long agoLast Saturday (I know, I'm lagging the better part of a week for all of my updates lately) I headed out to this less-traveled part of the

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On Sunday I went up to Black Mt with Alex Hoffman, Marina Campana, and Eden and Itai Axelrad for another day of beautiful Pacific Crest granite pebble wrestling. After the twins eventually sent Velvet Revolver, Alex sent the stand, and I failed to hold on to the upper hold from the sit yet again, we found a new cluster of boulders on top of the hill above the trail between Boulder Basin and

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-61716110006506272702011-06-20T20:01:00.000-07:002011-06-29T12:33:20.264-07:00

In case it wasn't made obvious by my posts over the last couple of years, Black Mountain has become far and away my favorite Southern California bouldering destination. I'll let the photos below tell most of the story of the weekend, and it shouldn't be hard to see why I love the place. We connected with Ryan Kim, Anthony Tarascio and a crew from OC/SD on Saturday evening and climbed with them

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-43433409035885062962011-06-13T22:33:00.000-07:002011-06-13T23:53:37.974-07:00

This Friday, Brett, our new friend Jenn, and I drove up to Black Mt for a weekend of camping and bouldering on some of the finest granite around. We got up there just in time to pitch our tents in the dark and enjoyed a few beers around the fire while making plans for the next couple of days.Saturday morning we discovered an amazing slab right in our camp site (group site 3) to start the early

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-55753556440437889372011-05-15T05:55:00.000-07:002011-05-18T05:20:24.377-07:00

Last night Meg Cavanaugh and her lovely husband Johnny McCullough hosted an amazing house warming/painting unveiling party at their place here in London. The unveiling happened to be of the 4-foot-wide painting I have been working on for them for a while now. I had sacrificed some sleep to get it done in time, so I'm happy to say it seemed well-received by all in attendance.I'm working now on a

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-3369997780272416932011-04-26T14:08:00.001-07:002011-05-18T05:31:36.454-07:00

For those of you reading this that haven't seen it yet, check out my online portfolio at isaacpalatt.carbonmade.com, if you're curious to see more of my artwork in an easy-to-view presentation.In other news, I'm almost done with a big new painting, which I'll post photos of when finished, and I'm doing my damndest to get back in bouldering shape. In as much as I'm returning to California in a

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-45686608983053863772011-04-11T18:25:00.000-07:002011-04-11T18:39:53.564-07:00

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OK. So delayed update yet again. I've been doing more of the same here in London, working from home, drawing a lot, painting a little, working on Broadway Market on Saturdays, climbing infrequently on plastic, and desperately trying to learn how to play the guitar. Maya is finishing a term in grad school, where she's writing computer programs that interact with each other and create conditions

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Off Broadway is a local bar, roughly built on the "American" theme of a good cocktail and a craft brewed beer. Like me, the manager is from the states, LA specifically, and appreciates real homemade Mexican food like only someone from the Southwest can ... you can taste it in his salsa.Off Broadway actually used to just be a gallery, and still serves as one, with original artwork always adorning

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-63765816363771346422011-01-08T18:10:00.000-08:002011-01-08T18:39:35.166-08:00

So I came home to LA for the two weeks straddling New Year's Weekend. On New Year's Eve, I flew from LA to Vegas, where I saw my brother for the first time in three years. It was nice spending a couple of days catching up. I also finally got to meet his girlfriend Yuko. Check out his blog "And Sometimes Why" on my blogroll for some interesting commentary.On Sunday, I went bouldering in Red Rock

Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-74130679535957292182010-12-25T11:00:00.000-08:002010-12-25T16:21:19.511-08:00

So if you're my friend on Facebook, perhaps you saw this article about the recent failure on the part of the Heathrow International management to at all adequately prepare for even a mild winter storm. Basically, they didn't have enough snow plows to handle 5 inches (max) of snow nor enough de-icing fluid to clear the gates after they did eventually get one runway clear. My flight back to LA was

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Isaac Palatthttps://profiles.google.com/112414992948457167291noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19674311.post-37848423775923750482010-11-18T04:21:00.000-08:002010-12-12T10:06:13.497-08:00

As I've mentioned previously, I see this guy's work all over Hackney. Apparently he goes by Stick. As creative as that name is, I still really like his stuff.

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Today is my birthday! I'm a quarter century today ... not that that means anything, other than the fact that 25 is a cooler number than 24. Last night Maya brought home this delicious cake.And so the work day begins.

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Maybe I missed the boat by a year, but I just found this awesome, inspirational video of Rich Simpson on the world's most famous sport climb, Action Directe, in the Frankenjura, Germany. It's kind of long at 26 minutes, but worth the watch, and does a great job communicating the level of obsession we climbers tend go through with our personal projects. Watch it at Chris Doyle's vimeo page here:

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Yesterday was the first round of the Southern Indoor Bouldering League (SIBL) competition series at the Mile End Climbing Wall, the local gym I've started to train at. I helped set for the comp two mornings last week and took photos during the day of. Spending the day at a friendly competition (mixed youth and adult open) reminded me of when I used to do JCCA/USCCA/USAC junior comps back in the

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The other cool gym in my area is Mile End Climbing Wall.Mile End is actually a not-for-profit, so it runs a little differently than most gyms I've visited. According to Alex, head route setter, it's THE place to train in London, so I'm psyched that he is able to have me on as a setter there. Maybe I can finally get/stay in shape.The "Approach"

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Hyde ParkJean Nouvel Serpentine Gallery Pavillion

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Yesterday I went climbing with Audrey, whom I mentioned in my post about The Castle, and Saoirse, another girl who works there, down on a little Island (I guess technically a peninsula due to the land bridge not much wider than the road that connects it to the mainland) on the southern coast of England. The area is called Portland, within the county of Dorset, which is where one finds, apparently

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This morning I headed up to The Castle Climbing Center to check out the local training facility. The first really cool thing about The Castle is the building, which actually does look like an old castle. It's actually an old water pumping station (it's next to a reservoir)but has been a climbing gym for a while now. The other cool thing about The Castle is that they are working to be completely

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And last but not least, Okonomiyaki and Om-soba near Maya's school, at Abeno

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One of the cool things about moving to a new city is discovering "the real city," as the saying goes. Maya and I have taken to walking around our neighborhood, London Fields, in the morning (or evening) and exploring.Broadway Market is a street just a few blocks away, lined with some nice establishments: cafes, pubs, and restaurants, the obligatory butcher, and an awesome fish monger. The Fin and

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Today, Maya and I walked from our flat in London Fields to and around Shoreditch, up to Islington, and back again. We used our need to pick up a few things as a perfect excuse to explore our surroundings and get a feel for the streets of Hackney. My favorite part of the day came early, with a quick breakfast at a place that had been recommended to me, Taste of Bitter Love, which we followed with

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So it's kind of unfair to my loyal readers (the handful of you) that I have not updated since June. A lot has happened since then. To answer the first obvious question, no I never 'sent Ex-Patriot at Black Mountain. I came very close a couple of times, but even on my last attempts last Saturday, could not quite pull it off. Needless to say I think the proposed grade of v11 is fair and Alan Moore

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We went back to the Summit area last Sunday and explored the hillside from Bang On, through the "Round Boulders" to the lookout tower. There is so much rock at Black that it's hard to remember that there are probably a hundred other hillsides with just as much untouched rock as this one. For those that have been paying attention, I did come closer to sending Expatriot this time. If you've seen

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I went back to Black Mt on both Saturday and Monday. Saturday I headed up for a full day with Marina, and Monday I went up with Maya and her brother Alon. Both days I was determined to send Ex-Patriot, and both days I left empty handed. I know all climbers obsess over projects at times, but this thing is really becoming an epic for me. Luckily I continue to leave with new beta and I make progress

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We went back to Black Mountain on Saturday. I did not send the object of my desire, "Ex-Patriot," but the whole crew crushed plenty of other stuff. If you have not been to Black Mountain lately (or ever!) I highly recommend taking a trip, if only a day, up there before full on summer sets in and it gets too hot to crank up there. Get it in now or wait till the Fall.Seriously though, folks,

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Jeff crushing a super aesthetic arete.Brett completing the sameMarina working out the VisorBrett trying magic beta on Expatriot. This line is simply amazingMyself attempting to get through that sick roof.This thing has become my new obsession. For me it is super hard. Here is a video of Ian sending it.http://blackmountainbouldering.blogspot.com/2009/11/expatriot.html#comments

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Sunday I went to Black Mountain with Patrick Luther, and we met up with another group, which included our buddy Alan Moore. We warmed up at the OK Corral on some classic moderates and then tried the classic toughy, OK Arete (which Patrick hiked).Alan Moore on OK Arete.Enrique the German on OK AreteAfter a sufficient warmup, we headed over to Loh Roof, which three of us grabbed sends of.Matuse

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Today Eden, Itai, Marina, and I drove all the way to the Republic, a lower area of Black Mountain, accessible before the gate is open, only to find snow. Snow everywhere, including on top of the boulders, which sucked, because it basically made every choice problem a waterfall. The "trail" was nice and covered too, so it was nearly impossible to find the boulders, and even harder to find the

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No new news.I was going to go to Black Mt today, specifically to head to the Republic and try Twilight of the Idols, but lack of anyone to go with and a late night last night convinced me to say screw it and just go to the gym. Next weekend, I believe I'll be going to Flagstaff, and if not I'll def get up to Black. Stay tuned.

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Though lately I've been clipping bolts one day per weekend, this Saturday we went to a sweet bouldering spot in SoCal. The rock is solid, fine-grained granite. Lots of tall, moderate boulders (and some hard ones) over flat landings abound.There is also plenty more in the area to explore and develop.

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Saturday was the Climbers of Hueco Tanks Coalition's (CHTC's) 5th annual climbers' clean up. Groups were distributed around North Mt and the back country cleaning chalk, picking up glass, and laying rocks for trail. That night the CHTC provided burritos and a keg of Amber Bock for all volunteers, including yours truly.The only thing that sucked was that we were leaving the next morningThat's

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Yesterday, Maya and I went to North Mountain. After basking in the sun for more than an hour at the top of the chains, I decided to try Loaded Direct to see how it felt, since I had just done Loaded with Power the other day. After a few tries I stuck the first pinch, made it to the angry crimp and fell trying to snatch the second crimper. After some rest I topped out, my celebration on top of the

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For Valentine's Day, Maya and I went to White Sands, NM. It was the one thing she wanted to do while she was out here in West Texas for a few days. Our friend, Rick Oliver, told us to borrow his dune board, and we were not disappointed with its performance.What a great rest day.

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TODAY, MAYA FLEW IN TO EL PASO, so I opted not to go on tour to Down in Flames or Rumble in the back country. Instead, Josh and I waited in line from 8 till 11:30 to climb on North Mt.After a somewhat epic session, I found myself topping out the former big boy testpiece "El Techo de Los Tres B." I say former because a miserable hold in the roof broke and now it is roughly two "V Grades" easier.

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Dev Ranjan crushing ChbalankeBloodlineJosh trying John Cooper's (Chris Schulte's first?) low start to The LocksmithMe, getting ready to go for the jugCooper hitting the JugMe holding the swingJosh on The Manly Bulge.Cooper almost sending Down in Flames. He'll send next time for sure.

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Last week we went on tour a few times. In one day Daniel did "The Machinist" (v13)and "Rules of Chaos" (v10) with fairly little effort.On the same tour, I made high points on two problems that had stumped me in the past, Rumble in the Jungle and Better Eat Your Wheaties, So I was psyched about that.The other day we went to Bloodline, which is a sick tufa, and I did Loaded With Power, a boulder

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Josh Jurinek on Hector in a Blender Josh on the über classic, Guns of Navarone James Morris from New Zealand sending Babyface, contender for North America's most classic V7. Drew sending the obscure, new-school classic, The Peanut, FA'd by Ty Foose a few years back. This classic (though somewhat sharp) line is behind the New Meadow, through the boulders left of Anal Intruder #10 (who

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This past week we had SEVERE rain in LA for four days straight, no exaggeration. Freeways turned into rivers. Entire communities were evacuated for fear of landslides. Serious precipitation. As I left LA for Vegas on Friday I could see SO much snow on the mountains along the way.Here is a view of Clark Mountain. Can you recognize the country's hardest sport climb?Apparently as the storms left LA

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Yesterday afternoon, Maya and I went to the Getty. It is possible that I have never seen LA so clear.Gorgeous. Now I'm off to go climbing.

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While our stay in London was brief, it was very nice. We stayed in a neighborhood of northeast London with some distant relatives of Maya's. Charlotte Hodes, an accomplished artist, is Maya's father's third cousin, which to my new understanding means that her children, William and Lauren, are Maya's fourth cousins. Charlotte's husband, Paul (1, 2) is also a talented working artist, and Maya and

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WOW. Israel was amazing. I already wish I was still there. The limestone truly is world class. It is unfortunate that while the rock is amazing, climbers only legally have the right to climb in a few specific nature reserves. Fortunately, the Israel Alpine Club is working hard to open up new crags. The areas they've got stand on their own with amazing features, tufas and pockets abound, and

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Currently I'm in Israel, with Maya and her family. We came over for her youngest cousin's Bar Mitzvah, but we're staying for a total of more than two weeks. I've been climbing once already at a cool crag in the north called Gita, with a high concentration of hard routes, and will continue to explore more of the brilliant limestone that Israel has to offer,Here is a crazy large praying mantis we

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Jeff and I made our way from LA up to Bishop for a spectacular weekend. Up there we met up with longtime climbing buddy Patrick "Fish" Luther, who had a pretty decent Saturday to say the least. After a lengthy warm up session at the birthday boulders, we went up to Haroun and the Sea of Stories (v12) so Patrick could "send it real quick." In a display of pretty serious rock climbing prowess, he

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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, in case you didn't know. This year, I went with Maya and her family up to their family friends' ranch/vineyard in the hills outside of Paso Robles for the second time in three years. The scenery is amazing up there, and the weather was beautiful too. Not only that, but the five dogs create great photo opportunities. Unfortunately, all the lazing around,

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I figure I better post about last week's climbing before this week's happens or I will never get around to it. Despite my rallying cry that we take advantage of our few weeks left of Black Mt before they close the gate, I went with some of the LA crew to Echo Cliffs on Sunday instead. Echo is SoCal's volcanic breccia (often referred to as choss) mecca. Aside from the cliffs' chossy nature, the

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Yesterday seemed to be a high gravity day at Black Mountain, at least for Cory French, Jon the Brit, and myself. Maybe the McIntosh/Savage/Moore et al crew fared better, but the three of us who remained at the general OK Corral area for the day got legitimately spanked.First after warming up we headed down to Morphic Resonance, a very tall and hard pure line a little down the hill from the main

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For those interested in seeing how it climbs, Alex Savage has posted a video of Beowulf at his site: savageclimbing.com. Check out the sickness.

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Today I finally sent Beowulf at the YMCA camp area of Black Mountain after three consecutive Sundays of work. After Anthony Tarascio's ascent a couple of days ago this makes mine the fifth, unless someone else snuck a send in there in the last two days, but I'm gonna venture to say that's not likely. Consensus grade seems to be V11, which I guess means it's the hardest thing I've bouldered,

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I have been working 12 hour days on average here in LA, but I have still found the time to make it to the rock gym two nights a week and outside on the weekend. Today a group of us drove up to Black Mountain from LA and enjoyed a perfect day of bouldering. My main desire was to try to send the line Alex and Ian sent last week (see previous post), which Ian has dubbed Beowulf, and Maya thinks

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Went up to Black Mountain on Sunday and met up with Ian, Bridget, Alex, Anthony and Nick. We started just a little way up the group camp road and then headed up to the YMCA Camp area. These areas of Black Mt, which are little traveled, hold seriously massive potential. I can't believe that I've lived in SoCal and Vegas for so many years of my life and never climbed there (though a decent amount

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This is a painting I recently finished for Las Vegas-based public relations firm Forte Creative Media, soon to be featured on the landing page of their website.As much as I would love to crank out more paintings right now, I'm going to be working in LA for a couple of months, so I might be limited to drawings and prints. Prints are still cool though. Stay tuned for climbing shiz and art work.

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Today was a fine day out in Red Rock's Kraft Boulders and Gateway Canyon areas. Went out with Hans Sachs and Craig Berman and climbed on three distinct and proud lines.First up was a superb crimpy roof climb reminiscent of Hueco called "Bitch Slap Five." I guess it is a relatively new problem and probably in the V9 range. Craig and I both sent it, with Hans coming excruciatingly close. I'm sure

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Today might have been the last day of climbing for my old pair of Optimus Primes. I'm impressed this pair lasted as long as they did. I started blowing a hole in my right front toe a couple of weeks ago, but kept climbing in them until they were truly trashed. Luckily, I just got a new pair shipped on out from Evolv, so I don't need to go even one day without an aggressive shoe.I had a really

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I've been out bouldering a few times lately and have managed to take a few photos now and then.Here is Josh on a problem in the Black Velvet wash.Here are a few pictures KC took of me doing a nice moderate dyno problem at the Kraft boulders. A beautiful sit start (flake below cool sculpted sidepulls, down and left) and a logical, straight-up line. For some reason, there is no indication of that

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Went to Black Mountain on Friday and Saturday for A-ron and Buck's annual birthday bash. I could only camp Friday night, which means I missed the big party on Saturday night, but I got lots of good pics and had a BLAST climbing the two days I was there. Recently I purchased a fisheye lens and I played around with it a lot on this trip. Some results were better than others. Here are some photos

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Yes, I know it has been over three months since my last post, but there's only so much to report. The summer has been nice in Vegas. I got a job working at the climbing gym and have been creating art and climbing a ton. "Climbing in Vegas during the summer?" you ask. well no, actually on Mt Charleston, up at a little over 8000 feet. Here are two photos of me up in one of the caves for

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As of last Monday, my undergraduate career is finally over and this Saturday I am moving back out west, where my heart truly lies. I am looking forward to creating in an environment that always seems to awaken and inspire me, and especially to being able to climb more frequently, and on world-class stone.Here are some photos of my work from the open studios, which Maya's father, Meir, shot

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Pratt Graduating Undergraduate Painting and Drawing Majors Open Studios!!!!!!!!!!!ALL THIS WEEK, through Saturday, May 16th!So in spite of (or thanks to?) the great turnout at my show opening and in the gallery last week, I've still been hearing a lot of people say they wish they hadn't missed the show. Well luckily, the weekend of graduation, the senior studios will be open all week through

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The opening of my senior thesis show, Vantage, was Monday night. To answer some questions that have been asked: I hung a total of 11 paintings, on 13 canvases (there are two diptychs). Unfortunately, the lighting in these photos of the reception kind of prevents you from seeing all the subtleties of light in most of the paintings. Also, I might as well note here, as the title of the show

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Here is finally some more stuff from this season in Hueco. I have been painting a lot, so I will post a few paintings soon. I am also graduating from college this semester.

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I am leaving Hueco in the morning, and needless to say I'm not thrilled about it. It was a great trip though. I will post a ton of photos as soon as I get a little bit of time.

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I have been in the Hueco Tanks, Texas, for the last 9 days, and will be here for the next twelve. Hopefully I will crush a boulder problem or two by the end of my stay. Here are some photos.

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