http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/images/stories/NewBox_black.png http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13929-stone-fort-winter-patrick-krieger http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13929-stone-fort-winter-patrick-krieger Before reading the long post, check out the video of the trip first, I can only imagine its more interesting than listening to me talk about the trip! After an easing period spanning a few months, 3 friends of mine and myself packed up for a 2 week trip and headed down to Stone Fort, Tennessee, where we hoped to spend our cold winter break under the Mason Dixon line in the sun. Unfortunately, though we made it past the war line we immediately caught rain. Catherine and I arrived... ]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:04:00 -0500 13929 2013-03-04 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-8836-1362420293.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-9178-1362420294.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-8838-853x1280-1362420296.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-9247-1362420296.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-8911-1362420297.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-9079-1362420298.JPG http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13927-small-town-roots-erica-carlson http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13927-small-town-roots-erica-carlson Every once in a while, you get writer’s block. You just don’t know what to write about. I was feeling that a while back so reached out to some friends looking for help with a topic. A friend that I first started climbing with back in Winnipeg, Manitoba suggested I write about my early days and transitioning from going from a smaller competition scene to being one of the top Canadian climbers now.As I’ve suggested so far, originally I wasn’t from Calgary, Alberta... I was from the flat of the flatlands, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Everyone always asks how I managed... ]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:27:00 -0500 13927 2013-03-03 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_197265-17484162960-59-n-1362335261.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_284-18367751045-9830-n-1362335261.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_240333-10150610100620478-17602-o-1362335261.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_5512-10151484726930470-1918594279-n-1362335261.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13926-return-to-hueco-jon-cardwell http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13926-return-to-hueco-jon-cardwell I've been climbing in Hueco ever since I can remember. I grew up in the desert expanse of New Mexico and the soaring syenite formations of Hueco Tanks were never too far away. My coach at the time and good friend, Lance Hadfield first introduced me to the boulders. I was twelve years old and it was my first time climbing outdoors. My mind raced, and I was hooked immediately. That first trip open my eyes to what climbing is about. I subconsciously made the decision to visit these rocks as often as I could in... ]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:15:00 -0500 13926 2013-03-03 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-1351-1362330905.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-1470-1362330905.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-1599-1362330906.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-1448-1362330907.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-1485-1362330908.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-1451-1362330909.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13925-keeping-it-going-in-2013 http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13925-keeping-it-going-in-2013 Well, my bouldering season has ended (sort of) but on so many high notes and with much more potential to achieve. The last day of my Hueco vacation in January produced a flash of Rubber Chicken aka Van Dame (V10), bringing the trip damage to two V11’s and six V10’s over the course of three weeks. I took a break for another couple of weeks before returning to Texas for the Hueco Rock Rodeo, and then geared myself up for ABS Nationals the weekend after! ]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:45:00 -0500 13925 2013-03-01 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_five-ten-blog-pic-1-1362167158.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_five-ten-blog-pic-4-1362167158.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_five-ten-blog-pic-2-1362167158.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_five-ten-blog-pic-5-1362167158.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_five-ten-blog-pic-3-1362167158.jpeg 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/13910-life-is-better-with-climbing-2-markus-eder http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13910-life-is-better-with-climbing-2-markus-eder The last two month my focus switched from rock climbing to skiing due to the coverage of my beloved rocks with the powder, which came in perfectly timed intervals, and buried the thoughts of my climbing projects. So powder instead of rock was the program. The past few years I couldn’t imagine making a longer break from climbing. This year it wasn’t that hard, maybe because of the long and very intense road trip and the incredible send of the ‘Balkonprojekt’ in autum. This winter I got addicted by the feeling of flying down a mountain in the finest... ]]> Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:27:00 -0500 13910 2013-02-24 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc03419-1361698024.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_pluto2-1361698025.jpeg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13905-bernd-zangerl-same-samebut-different http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13905-bernd-zangerl-same-samebut-different Wanderlust… it is a strange concept. The desire to discover the unknown Same, same....but different Wanderlust… it is a strange concept. The desire to discover the unknown… far away places…What is this? It is an attraction to distant, random places on our Planet. This is an emotion that I am very familiar with. Yet, I am on the search for something very specific in these distant places. Maybe it is my inquisitive nature that is the catalyst to this desire. I am repeatedly pushed to these wonderful and alluring places. What am I really searching... ]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:14:00 -0500 13905 2013-02-21 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_rd-120923-bzi-009348-1361456051.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_rd-120903-bzi-000389-1-1361456051.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13903-greig-seitz-climbs-bambi-8av12-greig-seitz http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13903-greig-seitz-climbs-bambi-8av12-greig-seitz Recently, I went up to Matthew’s Winter Park. The area up there has mainly two boulders; the Hillside Boulder and the Millennium Boulder. As I went up to this new area, I only had one boulder in mind. This boulder is called Bambi. Bambi is an amazing roof in Matthew’s Winter Park. This boulder consists of multiple big moves through a steep roof. The redpoint crux is a long move to a fairly shallow two finger pocket. After I climbed through the pocket, I climbed through a technical slab to top it out. I was super psyched... ]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:10:00 -0500 13903 2013-02-20 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_bambi-v12-2-1361329844.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_bambi-v12-1-1361329844.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13900-recap-of-the-last-weeks-sebastien-lazure http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13900-recap-of-the-last-weeks-sebastien-lazure Where to start… During the last few weeks I’ve been competing a lot while trying to figure out how I would manage to do all my school works… Finally, I just finished everything and I’m now packing up for Hueco Tanks! Can’t be more psyched!! ]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:48:00 -0500 13900 2013-02-18 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_vinceshaefer2-dhc-1361198901.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13899-feats-of-strength-8-and-preparing-for-nationals-isabelle-faus http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13899-feats-of-strength-8-and-preparing-for-nationals-isabelle-faus Yesterday was the Feats of Strength comp in New York. This comp beat me up, the quali round was four hours long, really brutal. The problems were really fun tho, and I was psyched to give them solid efforts. The finals round had three problems, I was able to flash the first.. topped the second on my third try, and got about half way through the endurance style 3rd problem. This comp was the first time I competed with Ashima Shiraishi, and needless to say she is a very impressive climber. Not only can she crush... ]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:58:00 -0500 13899 2013-02-18 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_563406-603251276355077-1028497137-n-1361149082.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13806-dark-horse-championships-josh-levin http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13806-dark-horse-championships-josh-levin This past weekend concluded the epic saga of the Dark Horse Bouldering Series. This year, Josh Larson and Dave Wetmore really stepped up their game, producing not two, not three, but FOUR heart-stopping, jaw-dropping, crowd-pleasing finals rounds that cumulated in the final championship round on saturday.To kick the weekend off, my friend Nicholas Milburn flew in from Houston to compete, so we decided to pregame for qualifiers by going out for some delicious dim sum at a local restaurant nearby my dorm on Northeastern campus. Bright and early the next morning, we headed off to Metrorock after a solid... ]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:49:00 -0500 13806 2013-02-08 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_5-1360345744.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_1-1360345743.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_2-1360345743.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_3-1360345744.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_4-1360345744.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13801-vertical-rock-climbing-gym-hans-christian-montenegro http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13801-vertical-rock-climbing-gym-hans-christian-montenegro This is my third competition of the season. There were 63 climbers in the open category. This time the foreign climbers came from Toronto, New Brunswick and U.S.A. I met a very nice man, Josh Larson, who is on the U.S.A. climbing team.The competition had 50 problems for the qualifying round. The qualifying round was hard because the level of the climbers was higher than the last competition. I was amazed to flash problem 50 and this made me very pleased with the qualifying round. After three hours of climbing, I completed six problems beyond problem 41. This score... ]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:11:00 -0500 13801 2013-02-06 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_vertical-1360167086.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13785-sandstone-bouldering-emily-dudley http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13785-sandstone-bouldering-emily-dudley At the beginning of this month I went to Red Rocks, NV. Which is one of my favorite places to climb. I love the sandstone, the amazing incut crimps, and the proximity to Las Vegas. Although the weather was much cooler than I expected, especially in the canyons. I was able to climb at the Kraft Boulders, in the sun, every day.  Paul and I were shown some new development up Gateway Canyon. One of the new problems is a fun little V6 called Three Steps to the Door. I got the FFA!  ]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:01:00 -0500 13785 2013-01-28 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_las-vegas-1359356462.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_powerglide-ed-1359356463.jpeg 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/13774-abs-divisionals-2013-zoe-steinberg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13774-abs-divisionals-2013-zoe-steinberg Last year was the first time that USA Climbing decided to hold bouldering divisionals as well as rope divisionals, as a way of making the two disciplines of the sport more similar to each other. The idea of having regionals, then divisionals, then nationals rather than simply going from regionals to nationals got mixed reviews, but the organization decided to keep divisionals in the mix. So, last weekend, I drove ten whole minutes away to the Gravity Vault to compete for a stop at nationals. I felt like I was in pretty good shape, but I... ]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:40:00 -0500 13774 2013-01-21 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chat-2012-1358790055.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_climbing-42-1358790055.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chat-2012-2-1358790056.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_climbing-43-1358790056.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chat-2012-3-1358790056.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13771-abs-division-2-championships-matt-lubar http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13771-abs-division-2-championships-matt-lubar Just as an arctic cold front hit Colorado, I headed south to sunny Tucson, Arizona for the ABS Division 2 Championship. While everyone back in Boulder was suffering through sub zero temps, I was sippin’ on Piña coladas and basking in the warm Arizona sun! Well, not exactly, but I still had a blast competing and hanging out with my team! I left school early on Friday, January 11th and went to the airport with coaches Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou, Garrett Gregor, Nic Sherman, and teammates Nick Lyon, Shawn Raboutou, and Austin Lankford. After a short delay due to snow, we... ]]> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:17:00 -0500 13771 2013-01-20 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_306343-469124163123796-1042960273-n-1358713045.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_19310-469124186457127-1534402614-n-1358713045.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_306343-469124163123796-1042960273-n-1358713046.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_397769-469124143123798-1255741380-n-1358713046.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13770-video-chris-schulte-in-indy-pass http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13770-video-chris-schulte-in-indy-pass Louder Than 11 caught up with Five Ten athlete Chris Schulte as he discusses life and climbing while crushing a few of his projects in Indy Pass. ]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:32:00 -0500 13770 2013-01-18 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_schulte-thumb-1358548325.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13765-happy-days-in-hueco-nina-williams http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13765-happy-days-in-hueco-nina-williams In the midst of moving from Fort Collins to Boulder, Beau and I decided to drop our boxes and high-tail it to the desert for some New Years festivities and sending. It turned out to be a great decision, as the trip started out strong and is finishing up even stronger, and I still have a couple more climbing days before we have to leave! ]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:52:00 -0500 13765 2013-01-16 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-9909-1358304726.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-9930-1358304726.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-0135-1358304727.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/13722-back-on-the-right-track-tobias-haller http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13722-back-on-the-right-track-tobias-haller It’s been a while since I last wrote something for the blog. The reason for this silence was that there wasn’t much to tell from me as a climber – due to injuries and a resulting lack of motivation, in terms of climbing, this year has probably been the most boring one since I started with this sport some 16 years ago. Here is the story in a nutshell: 2012 started just as 2011 ended – with tons of snow, endless motivation for skiing and still a nasty infection in my heel that prevented me from wearing climbing shoes... ]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:57:00 -0500 13722 2012-12-26 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_-dsc0054-1356537444.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_-dsc0145-1356537444.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc02192-1356537444.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_naxos2012-3697-1356537444.jpg