Thursday, January 20, 2011

Roast Beef Toilet Bowl

Here is my friend Tom Ellis doing the FA of "Roast Beef Toilet Bowl" a hard roof in New Mexico:


Roast beef toilet bowl from thomas ellis on Vimeo.

...I hurt my wrist in Roy this fall (not climbing actually...  Spotting!)  I have not been climbing so I can heal it for our trip to Font.  We will be going to France for a month in Feb/March.

Are you jealous?  Why not plan a trip somewhere?

Seek perfection of character, respect others & Try Hard. Noah as usual

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Roy: Another Sojourn

Ok.  Had to go back.  We found a huge new zone that will need a bunch of work.  Took Brian Arnold, Brian Capps and Jason Kehl again.  Did some new stuff.  Here are pics and video.  Check it.

"Icarus" V7 highball and projects/classics (bits and pieces)



"Paver Tom" V8 at Jumbles



"Carpet Bombers" V10 at the World Wide Wall



here are some photos to further encourage you:

Scarpa Team member Brian Arnold on an amazing project, still undone.  Brian was super close.  The first move is the crux and then it is about V7 to finish.  Maybe a V11.
 Brian Capps gets the third ascent of "Carpet Bombers" V10 highball.  This is bandering at it's absolute finest. FA Tom Ellis (and John Kuphal)
Brian Capps on the rad dynamic crux move of the sublime "Icarus" V7.  What a line.
Capps on the project.  We were all shut down, but close.  There is an amazing V9 to the right that Tom Ellis put up.  Arnold and I tried it in the sun one day and were unable to do it.

















Enjoy the season, climbers!

Seek perfection of character, respect others & Try Hard. Noah as usual