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New Holds: 600 Grips

The boulder goes down (again)… In the photo above we see our safety conscious Anthony cleaning an old Pusher hold. The cleaning probably won’t help this dinosaur of a hold, but we wipe it down anyway. Actually I think the hold is older than the dinosaurs, as are most of the holds in our quiver here at […]

Post USAC Competition Top Rope Breakdown

So this is what our Top-Rope breakdown looks like after our USAC comp (Boston). We ended up with 52 new top-ropes ranging from 5.5 to 5.13. Overall the response to the new stuff has been great. Special thanks to the setters (Keith & Kumpy) and the strippers (Ian and Jason – ha ha)…and an extra […]

Battle of New England’s Top Youth Climbers

SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! USAC Youth Climbing Competition! 10:30am – 1:30pm (Boston, MA) Come see New England’s top Youth Climbers battle it out in a no holds barred, free for all, Top-Rope Competition. If you’ve never been to a climbing competition, you’ve never lived. Check out the video above to find out what its all about! […]

50 New Problems

50 New Problems!!! I’m a bit late on the update…the problems went up last Wednesday & Thursday, but its better late then never. Consensus so far is that the problems are great! There are however a few lemons…and by lemons I mean really stiff* climbs and a few softies, but overall really fun stuff. Get […]

Boston Gym Resetting Routes

Tired of the same old Boulder Problems? Well you’re in luck. Our Boston Gym will be resetting the Boulder next week. Tuesday (March 15th) @ 9am the routes will be stripped. Setting will start Tuesday afternoon, but most of the work will be done on Wednesday and Thursday (March 16th & 17th) from 10am to […]

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New Boulder Set at Lincoln

words…simply…can’t…begin………to describe… The utter pleasure it is to climb the new Boulder Set at our Lincoln, RI location. Awesome, truly awesome. Check ‘em, out! As always I’d like to thanks the setters who made it out for this session. Dave Jusseaume, Keith Nadeau, Kump, Paul Rightmeyer, Chris Simpson, Danny Howard, and Lary Norin (?!?). Yes […]

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Updated Boulder Problems

OMG!!! What happened to all of those dirty, reachy, contrived, tape missing, sand-bagged boulder problems!?! I’ll tell ya! We’ve taken them all down to make room for more… dirty clean, reachy, contrived, tape missing adequately labeled, sand-bagged boulder problems!!! We even mopped the top of the boulder! So for the first week you don’t have […]

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Boston Location’s 90 New Problems

90 NEW BOULDER PROBLEMS!!! I’ll keep this one short…We (the setters and I) have outdone ourselves. These new boulder problems are sooooooooo good. No matter what grade you climb, you will be psyched! Just how good are these problems? Click on the link below to find out… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7D3bRRecbA Ha! I would have said they were […]

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90. New. Problems.

90 new Boulder Problems!!! That’s right…90!…New!…Boulder!…Problems!!! Well, to be perfectly honest 41 were set last Thursday / Friday (Feb 10th & 11th) for our Black Light Member Party (see previous post below) and the remaining 49 were set yesterday and Wednesday (Feb 16th & 17th). But…still… 90!…New!…Problems!!! Enough of this…check out the chart for the […]