http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/images/stories/NewBox_black.png http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/14075-yes-austin-is-weird-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/14075-yes-austin-is-weird-nicholas-milburn I think I will just write a quick blurb about my adventures last weekend. Brendan Mitchell, a recent addition to the Brand of the Brave, told me he was going to be in Austin for his dad's (Bruce) 50th birthday and that I should join him so we can climb together. I jumped at the idea. Tiffany Murphy and Sam Rothstein also drove down from Dallas and we meet up with Joe Gifford who lives in Austin. We all arrived at different times, so I ate dinner with Brendan and his family at this super nice golf... ]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 23:02:00 -0400 14075 2013-05-13 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_lime-1-of-3-1368486130.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_lime-2-of-3-1368486130.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_lime-3-of-3-1368486130.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/14053-its-a-progression-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/14053-its-a-progression-nicholas-milburn Two days of epics in the Ozarks. Who would have thought so much adventure could happen in such a short amount of time? After all this was just a spur of the moment kind of thing. At least for me it was. After the Capital City Crux competition in Austin some of the Dallas crew were talking about Arkansas. I was excited about my weekend of nothing when they invited me to come with them. Going to Arkansas to test myself against that sweet sandstone sounded much more fun than doing nothing at home. After convincing... ]]> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:02:00 -0400 14053 2013-04-30 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-27-of-34-1367283763.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-20-of-34-1367283763.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-9-of-34-1367283763.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-6-of-34-1367283763.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-13-of-34-1367283763.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-3-of-34-1367283764.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-16-of-34-1367283764.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/14026-capital-city-cruxin-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/14026-capital-city-cruxin-nicholas-milburn Bouldering comp in Austin? That can't be all that cool. WRONG! It is awesome. Austin Rock Gym held their first ever Capital City Crux comp and I say it was a success. ARG did some amazing and much needed remodeling to the gym to prepare for this thing. Before it was an old manky floor and unused wall space. Not anymore. They tore out the big island which opened everything up and gave an entire new feeling to the gym. Even though the walls were the same they felt much better. They also replaced the floor with some big... ]]> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:14:00 -0400 14026 2013-04-16 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_901370-10152754598185068-634049309-o-1366078483.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arg-12-of-13-1366078483.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_529290-4622729017613-169713681-n-1366078483.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arg-10-of-13-1366078484.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arg-3-of-13-1366078484.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arg-2-of-13-1366078484.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arg-7-of-13-1366078484.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13989-arrrrg-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13989-arrrrg-nicholas-milburn This past weekend was my first comp of this year's SCS season! Back to ropes, tall stuff and endurance training. Since it was also Easter weekend I had and Friday off of school, so I went out to Austin early and went to Reimers Ranch and climbed some of that Texas limestone. The first thing I got on was Prototype which was my project for a long time when I was a wee boy. It feels much easier than I remember. I walked down and met some friends of mine from Houston at the House of Pain wall. I... ]]> Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:17:00 -0400 13989 2013-04-02 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-1-of-14-1364869036.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-7-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-3-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-2-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-4-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-11-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-10-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13983-whooo-spring-break-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13983-whooo-spring-break-nicholas-milburn This spring break I went out to the southeast (big shock I know). My whole family went up and we invited some friends. Brian Towner and his soon to be wife Kristy Dorris came up from Houston, Dalan Faulkner and Sam Rockstein drove up from Dallas and Joe Gifford from Austin. So we had ten people living in our tiny little house, but since it was a climbing trip we weren't in the house very much. Joe and I drove separately and we managed to make the drive in record time,... ]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:07:00 -0400 13983 2013-03-29 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_spring-break-13-of-20-1364519250.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_spring-break-1-of-20-1364519251.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_spring-break-2-of-20-1364519251.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_spring-break-3-of-20-1364519251.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_spring-break-16-of-20-1364519251.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_spring-break-4-of-20-1364519252.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_spring-break-18-of-20-1364519252.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13961-quick-turn-around http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13961-quick-turn-around I just realized that I had this blog post written up and I never posted it, so here we go.The weekend before ABS Open Nationals I had a long weekend, so I capitalized on this random awesomeness and decided to go rock climbing. Mostly Tom (stepdad) planned everything and I eagerly agreed. Anyway after we debated a bit on where to go we decided to back to the southeast and climb on that sweet sandstone. We left after I got out of school, so we didn’t make it all the way, but this worked out rather well. At... ]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:22:00 -0400 13961 2013-03-18 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_southern-sandstone-2-of-15-1363645333.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_southern-sandstone-8-of-15-1363645334.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_southern-sandstone-3-of-15-1363645334.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_southern-sandstone-12-of-15-1363645334.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_southern-sandstone-5-of-15-1363645334.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_trey-1363645335.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_southern-sandstone-7-of-15-1363645335.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13920-abs-14-open-nationals-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13920-abs-14-open-nationals-nicholas-milburn ABS Open Nationals came to an exciting close this past weekend!!! Congratulations to Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio for an impressive win once again. This was my second adult competition. Last year I barely missed qualifying for semifinals in 22nd place. This time I knew I had it in me to make it to semi’s, but I always shoot for finals!!! Anyway, first off was qualifiers. I climbed about midway through the pack which turned out a great thing. Colin Bauer and I were chair buddies which was fun. I ended up sending four of the five... ]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:00:00 -0500 13920 2013-02-26 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_nats-1-of-16-1361908823.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_nats-12-of-16-1361908823.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_nats-3-of-16-1361908823.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_nats-5-of-16-1361908823.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_nats-8-of-16-1361908824.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13775-and-they-all-screamed-dark-horse-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13775-and-they-all-screamed-dark-horse-nicholas-milburn This past weekend I was able to fly up to Boston to compete in the Dark Horse Finals. I've watched all the recap videos and immediately put on my list of must do competitions. I was feeling pretty good when I bought my plane tickets. I just had a great trip out in southeast where I did some of my hardest sends and I just won youth ABS Divisionals. Only problem was that every other strong person on the planet flew out to climb at this thing too. Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Jimmy Webb, Vasya Vorotnikov, Carlo Traversi, Nick... ]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:25:00 -0500 13775 2013-01-22 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dark-horse-5-of-17-1358889935.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dark-horse-11-of-17-1358889935.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dark-horse-8-of-17-1358889935.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dark-horse-6-of-17-1358889935.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dark-horse-13-of-17-1358889936.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dark-horse-9-of-17-1358889936.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dark-horse-15-of-17-1358889936.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13759-the-best-presents-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13759-the-best-presents-nicholas-milburn This Christmas holiday a good chunk of my family and I went out to Chattanooga, Tennessee. I think I go to Tennessee every holiday I possibly can which is awesome because the southeast has a lot of great quality sandstone. Most of my family that came down for the holiday also rock climb, so it's not your average family Christmas where you go do the family stuff as fast as possible then book it to the closest crag. ]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:39:00 -0500 13759 2013-01-15 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_christmas-1-of-7-1358210365.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_christmas-5-of-7-1358210365.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_christmas-2-of-7-1358210365.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_christmas-6-of-7-1358210365.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_christmas-3-of-7-1358210366.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_christmas-7-of-7-1358210366.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_christmas-4-of-7-1358210366.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13689-one-of-my-better-weeks-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13689-one-of-my-better-weeks-nicholas-milburn Let's just start out by saying that this week is awesome. I am now officially the owner of a DSLR camera. I bought myself a Canon 60D, so now I won't have to ask my step-dad for his camera or be stuck with just my cell phone. This is actually the same camera my step-dad has, so I'm familiar with all its buttons and knobs. Now all I need is a trip to officially christen my camera.Some more fantastic news. University of Colorado at Boulder accepted me!!! This is my number one choice of college, so I am pretty... ]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:51:00 -0500 13689 2012-12-09 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_regionals-0486-1355071909.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_regionals-1-of-1-1355071908.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_regionals-0553-1355071908.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_regionals-0436-1355071909.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_regionals-0470-1355071909.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_regionals-0515-1355071909.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13663-si-se-puede-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13663-si-se-puede-nicholas-milburn I meant to write a blog part of the way through my trip, so that I could provide maximum detail, but I was pretty busy and lazy, so that never happened. On the plane ride home I ended up writing it, so it all worked out. ]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:55:00 -0500 13663 2012-11-28 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chile-1-of-7-1354139717.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chile-4-of-7-1354139718.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chile-6-of-7-1354139718.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chile-2-of-7-1354139718.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chile-5-of-7-1354139718.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chile-7-of-7-1354139718.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chile-3-of-7-1354139718.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13611-monster-mash-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13611-monster-mash-nicholas-milburn It's that time of year again. Halloween, candy for all, tummy aches, sugar rush and ROCK CLIMBING! My gym, Stone Moves, held its second ever Monster Mash comp. How often do you get to dress up in costume an rock climb? Well, I guess you could do it all the time, but this way you won't look like a fool. Some of the best costumes I saw were the Sand Bagger and Campusing. I dressed up as Five Ten and shaved my head in an interesting pattern to give my costume a bit of a boost. Most... ]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:50:00 -0500 13611 2012-11-08 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_monster-1-of-16-1352343020.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_monster-4-of-16-1352343020.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_monster-7-of-16-1352343020.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_monster-16-of-16-1352343021.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13543-one-of-a-kind-24-hours-of-horseshoe-hell-stephen-meinhold http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13543-one-of-a-kind-24-hours-of-horseshoe-hell-stephen-meinhold 24 hours of horseshoe hell is truly an amazing event and a test of mental and physical toughness, there is nothing else like it out there. A grassroots, hometown event executed flawlessly by event coordinators. This was my first trip and a quick one, but along with my partner Brent Perkins, we finished 2nd overall in the team event being taken down by tough conditions and the power team of Sonnie Trotter and Tommy Caldwell. This year over 40 competitors completed over 100 pitches during the 24 hour period.  ]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:39:00 -0400 13543 2012-10-16 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-0204-1350351579.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-0015-1350351580.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-1423-1350351581.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-1433-1350351583.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13501-plastic-and-rock-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13501-plastic-and-rock-nicholas-milburn Last weekend I flew out to Seattle to compete in the Unified Boulder Championship at Stone Gardens. First thing that I need to point out is how organized the UBC guys are. They emailed a packet out to the competitors that was the best comp packet I have ever seen. I didn't even know such things existed! They even gave the competitors a free Adidas jackets. Stone Gardens is a brand new gym, and its newness definitely shows. Brand new walls, brand new holds and brand new mats. The first part of the gym I saw was the isolation... ]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:55:00 -0400 13501 2012-10-02 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_seattle-1349146556.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13460-first-comp-of-the-abs-season-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13460-first-comp-of-the-abs-season-nicholas-milburn I just competed in the first comp of the new ABS season. It was held at my home gym, Stone Moves! Once again, Stone Moves put on an awesome comp. Great routes, psyched volunteers and superb music, just as always. That guy John Muse sure knows how to host a comp. My coach, Jon Perz, texted me the wrong time, so I was a bit late, but other than that everything ran smoothly. A bunch of Team Texas kids came down to compete, which was cool. I usually don't see those guys until divisionals rolls around.Once I got... ]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:30:00 -0400 13460 2012-09-16 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-moves-3-of-18-1347834630.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-moves-14-of-18-1347834630.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-moves-17-of-18-1347834631.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_stone-moves-6-of-18-1347834631.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13213-divisionals-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13213-divisionals-nicholas-milburn I recently competed in Divisionals in Grapevine, Texas. The comp was held at Summit which was a nice change. I haven't been up there since the Dallas area left my division. Summit held a good comp. It was run well and the routes were good. There were two route in qualifiers. Q1 was straight forward, but it had two cruxy sections that gave people a lot of trouble. Q2 was a big step up. It wasn't bad until the roof section. Few people made it through the roof and nobody pulled the lip (at least in my age group).... ]]> Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:34:00 -0400 13213 2012-06-29 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_2012-06-28-14-17-56-605-1340987648.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_2012-06-23-10-11-25-895-1340987649.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13194-anasazi-arrowhead-review-ferran-guerrero-hervas http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13194-anasazi-arrowhead-review-ferran-guerrero-hervas The Anasazi Arrowhead is a very technical cat feet, since I discovered the hand of Five Ten put it in the bedroom for those problems that bouldering when I need a good score and go up those inches that I need to get to a dam . Here we analyze the performance of this cat feet. On the website of Five Ten will find this description: "The elite team of climbers has only praise for the adjustment of Arrowhead and performance. Built on our Anasazi last 4G immediately feel the difference at the base of the shoe making toe... ]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:45:00 -0400 13194 2012-06-26 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13194_1018-01-1340817247.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13194_1018-02-1340817247.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13194_1018-03-1340817247.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13194_1018-04-1340817247.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13194_1018-05-1340817247.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13194_1018-06-1340817247.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13194_1018-07-1340817247.jpg