Category Archives: New Whiskey

Tis’ the Season: Part 2

Posted on October 31, 2011 | Leave a comment

Back to Whiskey last Wednesday with Ho and Henry. They pretty much cleaned house on a new area we found in the spring called the White Whale Area. It’s kind of between “No Business Like Ho Business” and the Banana Stand (that won’t help most people… sorry). Six and a half brand new problems were completed, leaving only a couple ridiculous projects behind. Here’s some photos and a lil’ video I threw together:

Henry on "Jasperzilla" V1

Henry, FA of "Same Team" V8

Ho, second ascent of "Same Team" V8

EC, gettin' scared on "the White Whale" V3 (photo by Ho)

Henry, FA of "the White Whale" V3 (photo by Ho)

EC, bailing off "the White Whale" (photo by Ho)

Henry, FA of "Blow Hole" (photo by Ho)

Ho, "Fe Fi Fo Fum" V7

Henry, "Fe Fi Fo Fum" V7

See you at FULL GRAVITY DAY 11 this weekend!

-EC

the Last Few Weeks…

Posted on June 16, 2011 | 1 comment

Alright, haven’t posted in a while so I’m just going to see if I can put everything in one big post.

First off, I went to Yellowstone over Memorial weekend. Didn’t get any bouldering in, but I took some photos that turned out ok so I though I’d share:

In between bouts of rain and roped climbing, I’ve managed to get out bouldering a bunch. Spent a few days at Whiskey developing, climbing established obscurities, and taking photos/vids:

Care Bear Flake of Fright, V0

the Shortest Straw, V2

my spotter, Seq-knar

Also, made it out to Yankee Jim for a few days doing the same. Have some good video of some excellent new problems right in the heart of the Locomotives (about 50ft from Gigarete), but I’ve got a couple more to finish up then I’ll post up video of them all. Also, Ho and I found a nice little valley of boulders in Yankee Jim that are only about 10 minutes from the road. Not gonna be another Locomotives, but it should produce at least a few good ones. Should be more on that in the future as well.

Lastly, not bouldering related, the Bozeman area has two new 5.13’s, put up by the usual suspects – Jeff Ho and Kyle Vassilopoulos. Jeff did “Swamp Thing” (mid 13) a line he bolted last year at the Swamp in Hyalite. Kyle did “Vincent” (5.13d) a long standing project at Frog Rock. Nice work guys!

-EC

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Posted in Mutants, New Whiskey, Whiskey Proper, Yankee Jim Canyon

Whiskey

Posted on May 24, 2011 | 2 comments

After more than two months nursing a stress fracture from Bishop, I’m finally getting back into the game. Unfortunately the spring weather in MT has been dashing killing most hopes of climbing. Luckily the Ho’s are a lot more on the ball when it comes to checking and interpreting the weather. After seeing the forecast for last weekend I assumed it was going to be a weekend of spring cleaning. But, I got a call Sunday morning from ’em saying we’re heading out and you should too. I did. And it was a near perfect day. I even managed to run a couple laps pain-free laps on Wave Runner, which is the hardest thing (by far) I’ve climbed since Bishop. Here’s a few photos: