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Sunday SCIN and I went to Military and saw this climbing couple warming up on Gung Ho with sponsored PETZL draws. The girl had an English accent and seemed pretty dang strong and we heard the guy keep referring to her as "Claire". They were nice and we chatted with them briefly before heading for home.

A quick search on Google told me her story and watching the video confirmed it was the same girl: http://www.planetfear.com/climbing/news ... ml?id=1267

Claire Murphy is back in Hueco and has sent her fastest project to date. ... After only 2 hours of work spread over a 3-day period, Murphy ticked off Chbalanke V12

It's so inspiring seeing someone that sick strong and it's neat to know the Red attracts those climber types. We may not see them all the time but they're here because the Red rocks.

Wow... she looks strong. Check out her lats. I don't see how anyone holds an overhung pinch hold.

I saw them working Stunning the weekend before. They both were very nice. They had their draws on it for two or three days. I think Ray actually took a run on their draws, remember? I think he also said,"no one that has those draws should be working this route". Funny.

Oh yea! That is funny. Apparently she's sponsored for her bouldering because I couldn't find any info on any hard route sends of hers. They were going to get on the Legend when we left and now I'm wishing I stuck around to watch. The endurance was hard for them to get used to but I bet she could knock out those boulder problems on the Legend real easy. V12...shew, that's more than I can comprehend.

I think I saw this girl on Saturday at Military. She told me that she was getting on the Legend, but I didn't notice and English accent. Did she happen to wear a knit hat with a monkey on it?

I think that's a different girl. Claire has an obvious English accent.

wow - watched the video - crazy - her and Andrew Gearing should get together and make mutant bouldering babies....it reminded me of watching Andrew climb...

I just saw the video - you're right Artsay, different girl. However I did see Claire - she walked up to military on Saturday. The other girl is from TN as well.

spuzo wrote:wow - watched the video - crazy - her and Andrew Gearing should get together and make mutant bouldering babies....it reminded me of watching Andrew climb...

WHAAAT??!!! Andrew is a baby himself!

i climbed with claire and tim some in hueco. she is really strong. so strong that even though we are close in height i could not use her beta. her husband tim is also really strong. he was doing at least v11 and he has only been climbing 2.5 years.