About Me
- Activities
Climbing
Hiking
- Favorite Climbing Shoe TEAM 5.10 - Five Ten took everything that was great about the V10 and added a few improvements to make an awesome new shoe. It's aggressively downturned with super sticky Stealth rubber in all the right places.
- Favorite Everyday Shoe Most of the time I rock the Runaways. They breathe well and provide all day comfort - plus they look good too.
- Gender
Male
- Height 6'1''
- Weight 145 lbs
- Birth Date 07/25/1989
- Birth Place Boulder, CO
- About me I have been climbing for more than eight years and enjoy all aspects of the sport. I mainly boulder and compete, though I am currently getting psyched on trad and sport climbing. Also, I spend a lot of time photographing climbing, and my photos have been published in Climbing, Urban Climber, and Rock and Ice. I currently spend summers in Boulder, CO and winters attending school in Vancouver, BC. I work as a routesetter, attend many local, regional, and national climbing competitions, and generally try to be an active and visible member of the climbing community. Please visit http://www.ryankolson.com to view my competition results, media appearances, and ticklist.
- State British Columbia
- City / Town Vancouver
- Country
Canada
- Website http://ryankolson.com
- Company Zaui Software
- Job Title Developer
Friends
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I've got the psyche, just need the body to follow - 2 years ago
I climb for a lot of reasons, but one particularly big one for me is the feeling of accomplishment I get when topping out a project. While I'd like to say that this happens most days I go climbing,...
Several months ago, my girlfriend and fellow five ten athlete, Vikki Weldon, told me about an idea she had for the Junior team at our local climbing gym. Vikki has been coaching the team at the Edge Climbing Centre...
My competition season is approaching full swing with one of my biggest comps of this year just two weeks away. I have been spending the last month training in the gym for the upcoming ABS National Championship in Boulder,...
September is usually an excellent time to climb in Squamish. The days tend to be cold but still fairly dry, making those summer projects sticky enough to send. Unfortunately, the rain seems to have shown up a little early...
Tucked away in the middle of Vancouver Island is an incredible limestone amphitheater with dozes of steep, classic sport climbs. Several times a year, my girlfriend Vikki and I shell out the $143 ferry fare and make the Journey...
This June I rediscovered my psych for competition climbing, started training hard in the gym, and even made it outside a number of times. I've got big plans to sport climb, compete, and boulder with the rest of my...
Bouldering in Pemberton and preparing for the Vail World Cup. Spring has finally come here, bringing a few more sunny days and opportunities to get outside. At the end of April, I finished up my second year...
A few weeks back, I drove inland to Kamloops and Kelowna to attend the Tour De Bloc’s Western Regionals. From Vancouver, it’s almost a five hour drive, but it was well worth it in the end. The competition consisted...
Stealth® rubber - is there anything stickier?
So good it almost feels like cheating...
"With Vancouver mostly shut down for the 2010 Winter Olympics, I spent most of the past two and a half weeks traveling around the US. My first stop was at the ABS National Championship near Washington, DC. The people...
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