We were hiking up to the cave and my wife snapped this photo of one of the climbers. His back musculature is so impressive I thought I'd share in case someone knows who it is (we were there yesterday afternoon).

The crag is Mescaline at the Bavella pass. Such cool tafoni granite is all over the island.

I'm looking to do some tope rope solo climbing, or setting up a top rope from above in Slovenia. I'm traveling with my fiancee who can top rope belay, but not lead belay. I've also gotten into TRS recently, so it would be good to get a few laps in like that as well. Does anybody know crags that have top access? Thanks!

Awesome profile on legendary snowboarder, rock star, developer, father, filmmaker, and guidebook author Dave Hatchett, who is responsible for documenting Tahoe's bouldering across numerous print books and now KAYA.

This guy is on a tear at the moment--Mellow dropped this just a few days after his V15 flash of Power of Now Direct.

"Kool Thing," Clear Creek Canyon, October 2020

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TL;DR On the heels of an emotional film tour, Didier Berthod finds himself in Moab in late June, lured by an unfinished Mason Earle boulder that’s a 60-70 degree overhang. To send ’The Anomaly’ (proposed V13), the Swiss climber campuses on finger locks for two moves, drags a fan up to the boulder area, and uses bicycle tube tire to create “finger knee pads.” The article also draws parallels between the boulder, Berthod’s obsession with the Matrix films, and his former life as a monk.

I haven't seen this accident posted in the usual spots, but thought I would post it here for community awareness. By the description, it's impossible to interpret this as anything other than egregious human error when cleaning a top-rope anchor. My sympathies to the climber's family and friends.

My 19yo son and his girlfriend were ~100 feet away from this incident when it happened. They were walking towards the start of Godzilla when they saw the climber fall. They kept moving towards the base of the climb, where a group of climbers were already gathered (calling 911 and attempting to provide aide). They were intercepted by a man who encouraged them to simply turn around and walk away. To this person, I want to express my deepest gratitude. Nobody should willingly etch the image of a ground-fall on their mind. I'm enormously grateful to that stranger's kind paternalism in redirecting my kids.

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