So. Your ready to take your game outside?

So, you want to be able to transition to the real rock of Athens County? What are the best beginner problems you ask? Where should I go?

Commitment Stand - Trailer Park, Commitment Area.

Beginners Traverse(aka Tilted Trailer) - Trailer Park, Ravine Boulders.

Broken Holds McGee - Trailer Park, Font Area.

Supper Happy Fun Arete, Trailer Park, Upper Tier.

Lip of the Silhouette Cave- Trailer Park, Cave Area

Shinbuster- COAD, Warm Up Wall.

Dark Dirty Hole, COAD, Warm Up Wall

Fire in the Hole, COAD, Upper Tier

Many Slabs at COAD


Let me know if their are any problems you think are great beginner problems.



Stay Tuned for our next segment, "You think you can climb V3."

Which Is? Traverse - Spoof

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Athens Bouldering Video

Just found this, a documentary video about climbing/bouldering in Athens. It was put together by Nick Kalisz for a school project, and looks pretty good.



Bouldering Athens from Nick Kalisz on Vimeo.


P.s. "Its like as close to flying as I have ever come.....without flying" might be my new favorite quote.

A Long Time - Part 1

So it's 21 degrees in Athens right now, and Brian is playing Contra III and complaining about the lack of blogging. So I thought I would start off things with some photos of a new Athens county line. These photos are of the "Superman Slab" on the Superman boulder in the "Heroes" area of Wayne National Forest. This boulder is freestanding and about the size of a house, checking in at about 30ft tall at it tallest point. One of the sides host a slab, home to this amazing line, props to BC on finding this stellar bloc. So far only 4 of the 15 or so lines have seen sends, but hopefully cool temps will help this dielima. If you get a chance to visit this new classic, don't pass it up.

Tim O. on the "SuperMan Slab"



Until part 2

A COAD Double Feature

Well I figured out a little more of the video editing, so here is some action from this summer. Let me know what you think so I can make the future installments better.

A Hocking Hills Highline

Last spring Levi(aka: Levi Tate, The Levitater, Mr. Evil) came to town to visit friends, family and possibly climb. He came during an amazing week of weather that allowed us hit the local Athens bouldering by day and paint the town red by night. We also managed to travel to the new for some bouldering, helping the crew dial in some problems before the rendezvous. While we were sitting around afterwards he mentioned that he was interested in setting up a highline at one of our only local crags( if you can call it that).

We decided that we would head out the next morning a set up a line at the Hocking Hills climbing and rappelling area. We planned to set it up on the gap between the "Rectangle Block" and the adjacent cliff, over the trail. It was about a 25ft gap and close to 40 ft to the deck, not to bad for our first highline. Being that this would be our first time setting a highline, we decided to not screw around and carried a ton of gear into the woods. However, two expeditions packs full might have been too much.

It took us about an hour to figure out what we need to set up the line. If you look at the photos you will see that we were pretty redundant. The core rig of our set up was the "slackline brothers" tension system, fully backed up. Our line was double threaded to make it both stiffer and stronger. The whole system was back up with a dynamic line that was ran under the line and taped to it.

The plan from the very beginning was for Levi to walk the line and if I was feeling up to it, I said I would give it a try, however my fear of heights said "NO". I will have to say it was pretty coll to see Levi on the line.

Check out the rest of the photos and the video below.

Bird's Nest Slide Show

I know I said I would have a video footage of a highline in Hocking Hills, but I am have some technical issues to workout. In the meantime I have put together small slide show of one of the most classic lines in all of Southern Ohio.

I in the meantime will try to sort out my video issues.

Stay tuned.