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Skaha Bluffs Closed
12/19/06 - Skaha Bluffs, near Penticton, in southern British Columbia, is a collection of over 50 gneiss cliffs with over 800 climbs ranging from 30 to 160 feet in length. 12/19/06 - Check out the megaton of rockfall that cleaved off of Teapot Rock at Schnebly Hill Road in Sedona, AZ, mid-day on December 12. 12/19/06 - Tempestuous Oregon weather calmed enough for search teams to reach the highest parts of Mount Hood on Sunday during their search for three missing climbers. 12/19/06 - The following is to inform you and your readers of several changes that have taken effect and will take effect in the Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre massif, in the northern part of Los Glaciares National Park. 12/18/06 - Charlie Fowler and Chris Boskoff, two of America's leading alpinists, have gone missing in Tibet's Genyen region, since November 29 (they were due to return to the United States on December 4). 12/14/06 - High winds and heavy snow continue to hamper search efforts for three climbers stranded on Oregon's Mount Hood (11,249 feet). 12/13/06 - In early November, before winter’s arctic chill descended upon Wyoming, Justin Edl completed his hardest offwidth problem yet among the huge granite boulders of Vedauwoo: Monsters Incorporated (5.13 or V8-). 12/12/06 - Veteran Antarctic explorer Damien Gildea from Australia and a team of young climbers, including Alaskan Jed Brown, have climbed a virgin summit in a remote range near Mt. Vinson. 12/11/06 - A French team made the first traverse of little-known Mt. Ross on the isolated Kerguélen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. 12/11/06 - On December 7, Dave Graham climbed what is likely the third ascent of Siurana, Spain's A Muerte (5.14c/d), a route opened in March 2006 by Richard Simpson of the United Kingdom. 12/08/06 - Five climbing teams have been nominated for the 16th annual Piolet d'Or, the golden ice axe presented to the “best” mountaineering ascent of the year. 12/08/06 - Frenchmen Stéphane Benoist and Frédéric Gottardi have added another extremely difficult ice climb to the North Face of 20,269-foot Kwangde in Nepal. 12/05/06 - Eric Brand left us on September 30. He went into the home he shared with his wife Carol in Silver City, New Mexico, lay down on the couch, and never woke up. 12/04/06 - One day after the original La Rambla (5.15a) saw its second ascent, Chris Sharma redpointed the endurance-fest in Siurana, Spain, for its third ascent. 12/04/06 - Patxi Usobiaga is at it again, this time with the first ascent of Begi Puntuan in the limestone crag of Etxauri, near Pampalona, Spain. 12/01/06 - Jerry Moffatt's The Ace (V13) saw its fifth ascent by sleeper climber Andrew Earl on Novermber 29. 12/01/06 - Spain’s Edu Marin has nabbed the second ascent of the original La Rambla (5.15a), right under the noses of several of the world’s best sport climbers, who also have been trying the route. 11/29/06 - Barcelona climber Ramón Julián sent eight routes 5.13d or harder in a five day stretch this month, beginning on November 23. 11/28/06 - Sean McColl of Canada and American Emily Harrington, the two most successful North Americans on the international comp scene this year, added the continental sport-climbing championship to their laurels last weekend. 11/27/06 - Despite “the hardest effort any of us have given in the mountains,” the Anglo-American team of Jim Lowther, Mark Richey, and Mark Wilford came up just short in an attempt on unclimbed Nenang (22,539 feet) in far eastern Tibet. 11/27/06 - A Czech-Austrian team put up Short Cut (5.13a, 16 pitches) on the big granite walls of southern Madagascar and repeated two other hard free climbs. 11/21/06 - Canadian crack-master Jean-Pierre “Peewee” Ouellet drove more than 2,000 miles to Utah from his home in Québec for a two-week vacation, and he still had enough time to bag Indian Creek’s hardest routes. 11/20/06 - On November 18, after a year's-worth of effort, 40-year-old Ben Moon completed his hardest boulder problem, Voyager with a sit-down start (SDS), in Burbage West in the United Kingdom. 11/20/06 - Slovenian Maja Vidmar thrilled the local crowd with a victory in the final lead-climbing World Cup of 2006 in Kranj, Slovenia. 11/16/06 - On November 11, Paul Robinson made a quick ascent of the granite testpiece Circadian Rhythm (V13/14), in Poudre Canyon, near Rustic, Colorado. |
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