Quick little update here…

Last Friday’s CCS Bouldering Comp was a blast. 50 new – awesome – unbelievable problems that were nearly conquered. I think all but 4 or 5 went down. A noble effort indeed. Pictures to follow (if I can find some). Thanks to Danny, Ryan and Anthony for helping me set the problems.

This Friday we do the same thing, only at our Boston location. Come on out, it’ll be a blast! Registration starts at 7pm. Climbing from 8 to 10:30pm, with the after-party right after you turn in your score cards.

After the Comp (next week), we’ll be filling in at both gyms. 15 – 20 more problems for RI and 30 – 40 more for MA.

Peace out! See you soon…

-mig-

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 the Lincoln Rock Spot.

But don’t worry…new holds are on the way. About 600 new grips! They’ll be here in time for our USAC top-rope competition on May 1st. Get psyched!

In the meantime, please be patient while we reset the bouldering…and when we are done…please enjoy the new problems.

-mig-

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 special thanks goes out to my girl ATM, for helping me run the routes!

Thanks guys!

Now get down here and climb!!!

-mig-

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!

…and be sure to check out all 52 of our new Top-Rope routes after the comp!!!

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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 over here and check e’m out!

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*Third picture shown above…shows ingenuity, but is not allowed if the problem you are trying is too hard. You need to do more pull-ups…

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 ???pm.

Get psyched!

-mig-

Current number of Top-Ropes @ our Boston location.

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 folks, Lary came out of retirement for this one. He only got one problem up, but its a doozy!

So…we listened to our feedback box and changed the following:

1) We set 60 problems this time around (see graph for grade distribution). In this case, less is more. Last set there were 70 problems which led to much confusion and much too much tape and route label removal by the “Bad Footwork Patrol”*

Less Problems + Less Tape & Labels = (hopefully) Less Confusion + Happy Climbers

2) We listed the Boulder Problems 1 thru 60 with an appropriate grade. Simple. Effective. Obvious.

Thats it!?! Keep the feedback coming. Just remember the following… Comments about routes being reachy and sandbagged will be ignored. You’ve been warned**

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*Helpful hints for the “Bad Footwork Patrol”…

Watch your foot as you place it on the hold. Put it on the hold only…do not place it 5-6 inches above the hold then scrape it down the wall before it finally comes to rest on the desired hold. Don’t drag your toes up the wall either.

By following the tips above you will prevent premature tape and label removal as well as make yourself a better climber…win win situation.

**Please don’t take the ramblings of the head setter as either being serious or funny.

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 to hold your breath while topping out. (I know, we outdid ourselves before we even put a hold up)

Remember, there might (key word is MIGHT) be a few boulder problems up tonight (Monday – Feb 28th). So keep that in mind if you plan on coming down to boulder tonight. Setting will commence on Tuesday march 1st and end on Wednesday March 2nd.

That is all…

-mig-

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 Duncan Hines Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting Good! But that’s just me. Come on down (or up) to our Boston gym and see for yourself.

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