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Interested in Big Wall climbing?

Professional rock climber Madaleine Sorkin will be doing a multi-media slide show tour across the Midwest and East Coast from mid-May through June, 2011. Current tour sponsors include Evolv, Rab, Kelty, Maxim ropes, and Stonewear Designs.

The show will include video footage from Madaleine's various free ascents, a film on her trip to Proboscis, and photos by Mikey Shafer, Madaleine and her climbing partners. There will also be an accompanying fund raiser for Girls Education International.

Time
Saturday, June 18 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Location
Rockquest Climbing Center 3475 East Kemper Road · Cincinnati, OH 45241 · 513-733-0123

Cost
Free, though donations are encouraged. All money raised goes to Girls Education International.

When are you going to free climb El Cap? I thought you had some plans a few years ago, but I never saw you there...

Any ways, Madaliene is rad, and Mikey does great work! Go see this show!

The 5.14 goal is first on the list, so in a few years. I can do that when I'm old.

Yeah! Let me know when you try... I think Free Rider will be no problem... Hell it is only 5.12c, and it has the Monster OW, which will be no problem for you after all that sport climbing...

Clown!

Free Rider is 13a now since the jug flake broke on the crux pitch and you have to do the Teflon Corner. Agree with everything else in your post though!

Naa. I have talked to people that have done the Teflon corner. Still 12c, it is just not as secure. The boulder problem still goes, but it may be 5.13ish... It has been done since the hold broke...

Man, only 12c and Honnold hasn't even soloed it yet...what a puss!

Did you hear about the Phoenix? Crazy...

Rockclimbing is rockclimbing. Sorry if I don't share in your delusions that 5.12 cracks are harder than 5.12 sport. Frankly, I would venture the opposite. I also apologize that I don't find you any cooler because you can hang in aiders and erector set your way up a wall. Fat guys and grandmas can do that just as well. What I am impressed with is your level of ridiculousness. Its reached unmatched heights.

Disagree. I can't speak for the 12+ range regarding trad, but the majority of the 12a to 12c sport routes in the Red would be 11b to 11d in Yosemite (or Eldo or the Gunks, for that matter), especially the techier vertical stuff--and I've climbed 10x more trad than sport. The cracks here are largely about a number grade inflated too (or sandbagged in the Valley, whichever).

And isn't the Monster Offwidth pitch only 10d or 11a or something? Surely a hardened yosemite veteran like yourself can't still be afraid of offwidths??