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How often do you boulder over the road?

Snaps of a few of my favorite people, moments, and place.

The World is Not Enough

@tyweinstein
@skashton_
@benwestlund_
@tobin.ford
@filly.tea
@callmesickles

Photo 3 creds: @tobin.ford
Photo 8 creds: @callmesickles

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Gone south for summers end.

2.5 months on the road, 5 states, who knows how many pitches of climbing. New friends, old friends, and a whole lotta fun.

One more stop along the way back to New York, then a little fall rock in the ADK before the start of something new.

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@chris_sharma on Golden Ticket, 5.14c/8c+ Rocktoberfest 2023

Stoked when @eef_cowan hit me up to have these printed out to take to @accessfund 35th birthday so they could be signed (last pic). Couldn’t have fathomed I would be where I would be in my climbing career when I started 8 years ago.

Prints available for purchase

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A day at Hawksbill, with some of the finest in the industry.

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Just hanging around with some good fellas in the woods.

Felt like the start of a good personal climbing season, looking forward to the cooler temps.

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Styling - North Carolina & West Virginia style. It was so cold in the first and third frames, our hands turned purple during attempts, and we all brought extremely thick blankets and layers to huddle on in between climbs.

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This time last year.

A last minute boulder trip with the @innerpeaksclimbing crew up to the lake. Right as the temps started to change for the better.

Lake season is right around the corner. Tyler foolin’ around on the warmup boulder before sending his project later that day.

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Come Hell Or High Water Part 1.

A photojournalism series exploring the Linville gorge bouldering scene using nothing but an old hand drawn map of the climbing that’s deep inside the wilderness. The idea spawned from the idea that I spend so much time there on ropes, but never boulder. So I started perusing the internet to find some info on the climbs down there, and to my surprise, there was very little to none.

So I started asking some guide buddies and my contacts in the climbing world, and they didn’t know either. I found an old Reddit post from almost a decade ago of one climb, the name of it, and found the poster on instagram and asked him for some beta, and he shared some to get me started.

Eventually I found a friend who knew a guy with a map of the entire gorge and it’s bouldering. So I tracked him down and talked with him, and found out he spent 10 years wandering the gorge, putting up first ascents and hand drawing the map of all the bouldering. I got a copy, gathered a crew, and we tracked down these classic boulders and started ticking them off one by one. CHOHW is a series about adventure, exploring a classic North Carolina climbing destination with our community, honoring first ascension parties, Carolina climbing history, making memories with friends, and highlighting the work of a Carolina climbing legend.

Copies of the map are available for purchase through the link in my bio directly from the artist who drew it, if you want a cool piece of Carolina climbing history and to support a local artist. All of this work is shared with his permission as the artist, FA’er of some of the routes, and his blessing.

If you are going to explore Linville gorge bouldering, make sure you stay well within your grade limit, know where you are going, have a map, a backup plan, and a way to contact someone. These routes have loose rock, rough landings, and are hard to find. They are also miles deep into remote wilderness areas with very little service, and complicated rescue scenarios if something goes wrong. As always, use your best judgement, and have fun out there, and as always, leave no trace. Love y’all and can’t wait to share more of this project.

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Some mountain frames that were lost to the sands of time.

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It’s not a summer at the New without shenanigans

Moments from summer a few years ago with this crew
@hannahbreen88 @donovan_bender @tobin.ford @juliatduffy

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CCC x Black Diamond Trail Daze of Summer. A summer of community, stewardship, conservation, advocacy, and climbing in shared spaces we all love so much. Thank you to all the volunteers for countless hours, miles traveled, and for building a sustainable future for our community and future generations to enjoy for years to come. Can’t wait to do it again next year ⏳

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High Country hang time.

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