The winner of last week's challenge was Sarah L. Well, she was the closest to the correct answer anyway. There were a few of you who answered one part of the question, but it was a three part question. The method of crack climbing is called Leavittation, created by Randy Leavitt, and the information I saw said it involves hand stacking. Jeff pointed out that that was incomplete. It involves the feet being above the hands, as well as hand stacking, in an overhanging crack. Hmmm, doesn't sound like something I am real eager to try, but if you had asked me three years ago if I would start rock climbing, my answer probably would have been, "why would anybody do that?".
This week's challenge is going to involve some research as well. You can find the information on the internet as well as in climbing guide books. Which books you may ask? I don't know, I just ask the questions. However, for the right price, you may be able to persuade a certain coach to spill that information :)
Here's the challenge:
Sport climbing has been developed in areas all over the western United States. Rank the following areas from oldest (developed first) to most recent (developed last):
- Rifle, Colorado
- Maple Canyon, Utah
- American Fork Canyon, Utah
- Smith Rock, Oregon (have you heard of that place before?)
- Red Rocks, Nevada
- Virgin River Gorge, Arizona
4 comments:
Kaden Hunters Answer:
1: Smith Rock-Traditional and aid climbing from the early sixties. In the 1970's Dean Fry bolted the first face route in the dihedrals, "Methusula's Column" (5.10a).
2: Red Rocks- began in the mid 80's
3: American Fork- Black Magic was climbed in the fall of 1988, Jeff Pedersen, Boone Speed, and Bill Boyle continued to develop routes.
4: VRG- Development began in 1989 by Jeff Pedersen, Vince Adams, Boone Speed, Tom Gilje, and Randy Leavitt.
5: Rifle- Richard Wright and Mark Tarrant put up the first route in Rifle called "Rumor has it," in 1991
6: Maple- Early 90's devlelopment began with Bill Boyle, Jeff Pedersen, Bill Ohran, Tim Hannig, Dan Snyder, with many others to follow.
Well, alrighty then! Thanks Kaden for the superior history lesson as well as the correct answer. I should've known that you would come up with this.
man im old
yes steven yes u r very old
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