This blog post is a bit overdue and for that I apologize to all you avid readers out there. I got back to my beautiful home state of Vermont almost two weeks ago. My girlfriend, Jenny and I were driving with ambition the first day heading home, driving 22 of the first 24 hours. To start we were not far in front of Max Zolowhatitcan and eventually well behind the man whose last name I couldn't tell you how to spell. As we neared the Eastern states I realized (I actually knew this all along) there was plently of...

The Smileys reports in from the field (the ice field, of course)" It is 6:30pm, we are hiding just below the summit ridge of Mt Temple. The charged atmosphere is causing my hair to stand up even thought it is damped from the unrelenting hail. Our ice axes, crampons, and all other metal objects, including my sterling silver earrings, are buzzing. The thunder started just as we overcame the crumbling black towers. The black towers were the final rock section before reaching the glacier. The rock below the towers was relatively solid but not the towers. The...

"With snow melting and temps nearly perfect in the high altitude zones of Colorado hard sends should follow and they have. First, the boys from the south continue to have their way with every boulder problem in RMNP. Brion Voges, who had recently hit a wall in his climbing about a week ago has found some renewed psyche. Brion was able to dispatch Don’t Get to Greedy V13 and Top Notch V13 rather quickly.

The RokazBloc was this weekend. I was very impressed with the event the gym produced. It was very easy to have a good time, almost 100 climbers competed for 3 hours in a 'redpoint' format to qualify for a chance at Finals. In the end 8 climbers in each gender passed into the finals. I wasn't expecting much as I haven't been climbing at all in gym in the last month, let alone not much at all in the last year! Anyway, the focus was set on having a good time and it seemed...

Five Ten Paddling Athlete Shon Bollock tells us the latest with the Shasta Boyz. Well with the start of school things are a little silent up here in Mt. Shasta but we found some time to go and surf at the School House wave on the Klamath off I-96. Myself, Ben Stookesberry, Chris Korbulic, and Chiseki rallied out for an afternoon surf.

Brion Voges sat down with UKClimbing.com for an interview.