“Tomorrow I Will Be Gone” is Outcrop Films’ début feature-length film. Set in the sandstone paradise of Rocklands, South Africa, the film follows a selection of Britain’s finest boulderers on their trip, grappling with the best the boulders have to offer. No interviews, no nonsense, just climbing. Tomorrow I Will Be Gone from Outcrop Films [...]
Good news Nelsonsites! There’s a new bouldering area in Rosemont. A friend discovered it the other day when she watched some kids walking towards the bike park with a home-made boulder pad. She followed them out of curiosity and came across a few boulders that they had scrubbed and were playing on. The boulders may [...]
After a weeks of waiting for bolts and a new drill bit, Sonja Podstaswky and I finished 3 new routes at the Pub Wall. The routes all have varied climbing from steep, juggy moves to long passages across rolling slab. Approach: Park at the Lionshead Pub in Robson. Walk 2 meters (6 seconds) to base [...]
Marcus Norman is the Kootenay climbing scene’s greatest tourist. Hailing from Calgary, the guy visits our neck of the woods regularly with his wire brush and throws down new V7 boulder problems at the drop of a chalk ball. Lately he’s been playing at the Pass Creek bouldering area. For directions on how to get [...]
Check out this British Schoolboy’s invention – the perfect wall crawling device. Just make sure you bring a really long extension cord.
Sonja Podstawskyj was recently “busted” for buildering in Nelson, BC. This is her story. A car pulled into the alley and stopped. The driver asked me what I was doing, but I was too focused on climbing to chat. The crux spat me off and again he asked me what I was doing. Wasn’t it [...]
This is another great problem by Jesse Redden in the Main Room. The problem gets its name from the crapload of rusty metal and broken glass that littered its base before a major clean up effort made this thing safe to climb.
I’m not sure if Mikkel, a world class whitewater kayaker, got the first scent or just did all the work cleaning it, but here is a video of Stewart climbing it. This might be V2.
I think this is the best dyno problem so far in the Kootenays. I’d love to be proven wrong though. Caleb figured this one out, taking a pretty boring warm up and making it way more fun.
So far, this is the hardest problem in Robson. Scott Jeffery defied what seemed like a long reach to grab the first and only ascent of this problem. Stewart, to his credit, showed everyone, including Scott, how to do the top-out.
You’ll find this problem in the Lionshead Pub area, near the top of the talus. A cool reach out left, a few crimps and then hold the body tension to top out. Fun.
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