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271 - December 2008
Cover: Chris Sharma on Jumbo Love (5.15b) — North America’s hardest free climb — Clark Mountain, California. Photo: Boone Speed / Aurora Photos
COUNTRY STYLE - Take a trad tour with two American hardwomen in South Africa; MAINE LINERS - Mark Synnott and Jared Ogden search for sea cliffs along austere Downeast Maine; ZILLERTAL 2.1 - Deep in the Austrian Tyrol there's a granite wonderland with blocs, clip-ups, cracks, and walls |
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 December 2008 - 271
GALLERY - Hard-5.13 headpointing, seaside (and high-country) highballing, roof-crack madness, and Garhwal splendor; COUNTRY STYLE - Take a trad tour with two American hardwomen in South Africa; MAINE LINERS - Mark Synnott and Jared Ogden search, in a 27-foot sloop, for sea cliffs along austere Downeast Maine; ZILLERTAL 2.1 - Deep in the Austrian Tyrol there's a granite wonderland with blocs, clip-ups, cracks, and walls  October 2008 - 270
THE NOIR OF THALAY SAGAR - A fateful expedition to the Garhwal Himalaya; SPINDRIFT MEMORIES - Three men and 32 days on Baffin Island’s Walker Citadel; LOSING THE PLOT - Journal entries and images from the "Alaskistan 2007"; TRAPPED! - Two Japanese climbers, fallen 165 feet into a crevasse on Latok IV, fight to escape their icy crypt  September 2008 - 269
FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE - Tune up your huevos and get ready for a second dose of Ibex; HALF THE STORY - Adieu, Hueco. Sayonara, Bishop. The real bouldering explosion centers on a hillside in Turkey; AMERICAN MEATBALLS - Two psyched yankees visit Bohuslän, Sweden, home to the world’s best trad cragging; ANOTHER ONE DRIVES THE BUS - Why Boulder, Colorado, climbers have been driving the big, yellow bus for more than a quarter century  August 2008 - 268
THE BIG D - How Rifle Mountain Park, Colorado, came to be the land of 5.13d; PRETTY GNEISS - The roadside crags of Colorado’s Clear Creek Canyon seem to totter more than tower; PLASTIC PRINCE - Straight outta the “Plastic Crucible” of board-flat Belgium comes Nico Favresse; IN SEARCH OF EL CHUPACABRA - Senior Contributing Editor Craig Luebben visits limestone-rich Puerto Rico  July 2008 - 267
GALLERY - Pawtuckaway granite — sweet boulders and bizzled trad; FANTASYLAND - Veteran alpinist and trash-talker Kelly Cordes confronts his biggest hurdle yet; THE ORIGINAL SPRAYLORD - How did Albert Smith, a pudgy Englishman with only Mont Blanc to his credit, launch the sport of mountaineering 130 years ago?; A GRAND IS NOT ENOUGH - Ten peaks, 12,000 feet of vertical gain, crumbly rock, and restless weather in the Tetons  266 - 2008 Photo Annual
PHOTO GALLERIES - From 5.13 cracks, to a Cuban castle, to a Tasmanian sea stack, to a Chinese arch, we bring you 2008’s best photography. PLUS: PIEDRAS ESCONDIDAS - an amazing “Stone Forest” at 15,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes; ROCK DREAMERS - Landscapes of spirit and stone, in the words of seven climbing lifers; CRACK ADDICTION - From seams to bomb-bay; DAR AL-SALAM -The valley of Wadi Rum, Jordan; STONE MONKEYS - Yosemite’s Stone Monkeys — modern-day Stonemasters  April 2008 - 265
GALLERY - Simon Carter takes you on a tour of J-Tree; LEGENDS OF THE FALL - England’s E9 and E10 headpoint pioneers; THE BLACK DOG - The dark side of the climbing equation, as revealed through five first-person essays; THE CONTRARIAN - “Fly’n” Brian McCray is one of our sport’s best all-arounders, over the last 20 years amassing a body of climbs unparalleled in his generation  February 2008 - 264
2007 GOLDEN PITON AWARDS - The best of Alpine, Traditional, Sport, Bouldering, Solo, Rookie of the Year, and Humanitarian of the Year; THE SPAIN DIARIES - Three young Yankees cut loose in Iberia's new-school sport heaven; ASSUME NOTHING - Chile's Valle Cochamo - the Yosemite of South America; GET LOST! - Fremont Canyon, a granite craggers' paradise; TROUT CREEK - Slammer hands, sickly tips, mini-roofs, and velvet corners in Oregon  January 2008 - 263
VERTICAL ETHIOPIA — Infinite, crumbling spires of northern Ethiopia; THE LINE OF CONTROL — Kashmir is known for its conflict, sure . . . between India and Pakistan; WYOMING WIND — Wild, remote, monster granite of the Wind River Range; NECESSARY EVOLUTION — Clean climbing is back, stronger than ever, and it's high time we think before we drill, says Sonnie Trotter  December 2007 - 262
DUMBY DAVE - We've all heard of Rhapsody, the world's first E11 - a trad 5.14c R/X in Scotland; GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH - Cascades alpine multi-pitch; I, BOULDERER - Yosemite's proudest blocs yet; BLANK CHECK - the mile-high Swiss Wall of Death  October 2007 - 261
KING OF KINGS - Climbing sits down for Sharma's most candid Q & A yet; TALES OF THE UNRULY - The vertical world's Top 10 urban legends; NEW DIMENSIONS - Rodellar in northern Spain; GALLERY - Supercracks from Squamish and Smith, and dyno hand drilling;  September 2007 - 260
EPICS ISSUE: The life and climbs of Michael Reardon, Superchoss from western Colorado to Wales, a 13-day saga El Capitan horrorshow, Alaska's remote Mount Russell, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, Cholatse, Afghanistan  August 2007 - 259
STACK ATTACK - Sandstone towers and angry sea birds off the coast of Scotland; THE LAND OF "5.12" - South Dakota’s hidden jewel, Spearfish Canyon; KLETTERGARDEN - Sky, granite, tundra, and tourists in the lower reaches of RMNP; HOLLOWAY’S WAY - Unrepeated1970s-era V12-plus boulder problems  258 - July 2007
FREE BLAST - The south face of the Marmolada, the highest point in the Italian Dolomites; MORE GUNKY THAN FUNKY - Shawangunks dizzying moderates; BLACK HOLE - bouldering in Flagstaff, Arizona  257 - May 2007
THE SNOWS OF GENYEN - Remembering two of America's best alpinists Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff; CULT OF SOLITUDE - Chris Weidner and Justen Sjong in Newfoundland; ZEN AND THE ART OF ERIC DECARIA - redefining the cutting-edge trad game |
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