Ashley Dorough of Chapel Hill, North Carolina climbs Brutus (V2) at Hound Ears - the site of the first Triple Crown Bouldering Series competition held near Boone, North Carolina.

The 2009 Triple Crown Bouldering Series is the biggest, most bodacious outdoor boulder series and it's back again - for the 7th time - beginning with Hound Ears in Boone, NC on October 3rd, followed by Horse Pens-40 in Steele, AL on November 7th, and concluding at the Stone Fort in Chattanooga, TN on December 5th.