We are pleased to announce that Tiffany Melius made it to the top of the podium this weekend at the Australian Bouldering Nationals. Tiffany has long been a strong competitor here in Canada and made the trek home to compete. Congratulations Tiffany! We are sure you put on a great show!

For our previous interviews with Tiffany Melius, please click here and here.

A post on facebook regarding the Eldred Valley has been gaining a lot of traction recently and we thought we would post the information here for everyone to share.

Powell River is an isolated community where recreation access is limited to industrial access roads into the backcountry. The Eldred Valley has world class rock climbing and alpine mountaineering potential on par with Yosemite Valley. Logging in the Eldred valley has threatened access in the area since the early 80s and user groups have been fighting to keep the little access we have. At this time Western Forest Products is about to log a large patch of old growth trees at the base of a 500m/1500-ft tall granite dome called “Amon Rudh” that has been a climbing destination since its first ascent in 1999, when Colin Dionne, Chris Wild, Victor Ting, and Aaron Black established “On the Virg,” a 10 pitch 5.10 of the highest quality. Access to the wall is a steep trail established in 2007 through some of the most beautiful old Cedar and Fir trees on the entire coast! The terrain is far too steep, the sandy soil type means the slope can’t be stable after harvest, and, like the rest of the slope, it will be prone to landslides. We have no other access approach to the dome because of obtuse, outdated government policies dictating the “Permanent Deactivation” of existing industrial-strength roads. Your support will help us to show our local governing bodies how important access is to the climbing community and adventure tourism here in Powell River, and convince them to stop logging the last remaining old growth forest and destroying established industrial access to public lands.

For more information, please visit the Reddit article or sign petition below.

Sign the Petition

We are pleased to announce that our Canadian athletes Alannah Yip and Elan Jonas-McCrae have made finals at the 2016 Portland Boulder Rally for the second year in a row. Be sure to catch the live stream and cheer them on around 630pm pacific time.

Here are the results after semi-finals.

Men:
1. Nathaniel Coleman
2. Elan Jonas-McRae
3. Carlo Traversi
4. Matt Fultz
5. Ben Tresco
6. Sean Bailey

Women:
1. Alex Puccio
2. Maya Madere
3. Alannah Yip
4. Allison Vest
5. Kyra Condie
6. Lisa Chulich

Nice video by Red Bull featuring Kilian Fischhuber on Headless Children in the Ratikon.

We are please to have local physiotherapist William Bateman as a guest contributor for this training article.

In my two prior posts, we talked about how to integrate your core stabilizers into exercises used to train for climbing. The first looked at how to integrate your shoulders and anterior trunk muscles into your deadhang – see here. This can be a great tool to help you train static stability.

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A well thought out training video series featuring Audrey Sniezek in the gym working the upper body. The first video here shows the conditioning circuit in it’s entirety, while the subsequent videos provide a lot of explanation on form for each exercise.

Climbers core circuit.

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Here is a video featuring highlights from the 2016 Adidas Rockstar qualifier round.

Third instalment of the all female Black Diamond Bootcamp featuring Colette McInerney.

Sick video of Jonathan Siegrist completing Spirit of the West (5.14a) in one day (three tries) filmed by Tom Wright.