The SCBC Provincial Bouldering Competition was held tonight at The Edge Climbing Centre in North Vancouver, BC. Here are the final results for the night. Check back with Squamish Climbing Magazine for a review of the event.

Men’s Open Final

1. Eric Sethna
2. Alex Fritz
3. Jesse Taplin
4. Marc Eveleigh
5. Dan Archambault
6. Andrew Funk
7. Samuel Wolff
8. Tristan Gosselin
9. Gavin Johnson

Women’s Open Final

1. Hung Ying (Chris) Lee
2. Shannon Russell
3. Thomasina Pidgeon
4. Tiffany Melius
5. Rebecca Frangos
6. Maria Celkova
7. Alyssa Weber
8. Mika Hosoi
9. Alison Stewart-Patterson

Special thanks to all those who made this event happen. These type of events take a lot of planning and energy from the community and Squamish Climbing Magazine wants to recognize everyone’s efforts. It was also great to see that a number of competitors came out from Alberta and Washington, including competitors from the Calgary Climbing Centre, the Rock Jungle in Edmonton, and Vertical World in Seattle.

Stay tuned to Squamish Climbing Magazine for a wrap up of this event.

Israel Cruces has long been a prolific developer of boulders in the Sea to Sky Corridor. Here is his first for 2015 and I am pretty sure it will not be his last. As with most of Israel’s boulders, he keeps a tight lid on where they are so if you want to find them, you may just have to ask him yourself. This one can be found at the end of the North Walls near the Swamp Thing boulder.

Here are semi-final the results for today from the SCBC Provincial Bouldering Competition. The following competitors are through to the finals tomorrow starting at 5pm at The Edge Climbing Centre.

Women’s Open

1. Hung Yin Lee
2. Shannon Russell
3. Mika Hosoi
4. Tiffany Melius
5. Allison Stewart-Patterson
6. Alyssa Weber
7. Maria Celkova
8. Thomasina Pidgeon
9. Rebecca Frangos

Men’s Open

1. Tristen Gosselin
2. Alex Fritz
3. Eric Sethna
4. Dan Archibault
5. Andrew Funk
6. Jesse Taplin
7. Marc Eveleigh
8. Gavin Johnson
9. Samuel Wolf

Stay tuned tomorrow or come out and cheer on those in finals at 5 pm tomorrow! Special thanks to Gavin Johnson for getting this to us so quickly!
The running order for tomorrow can be found here.

Here is Squamish Climbing Magazine’s Luke Zimmerman enjoying a warm winter day on the Smoke Bluffs classic, Muddy Waters.

With all this ice climbing media, I thought I would post this film of climbing icebergs. If you missed this one, it is worth a watch!

Will Gadd was recently the first person to ice climb up the famous Niagara Falls and local videographer David Pearson and his team at Reel Water Productions was a big part of the process. Check out the latest below

Charlotte Durif is one of the athletes featured this month and the IFSC Climbing Camp taking place in Central Saanich, BC. Click the link to the right if you are interested in attending. Still a few spaces left!

With the SCBC Provincial Bouldering Competition taking place at The Edge Climbing Centre this weekend, Miranda Guzzo had a chance to sit down with Jesse Taplin to talk about training and climbing. For those who don’t know, Jesse Taplin is a climber out of Mission, BC who trains at Climb Base5 in Coquitlam, BC. He recently placed first in the Triple Header this month and was the Provincial Champion last year. Jesse is also no stranger to outdoor climbing, sending The Worm Turns (v11) this year in Joe’s Valley and having sent a few tough boulders in Squamish, such as Primal Urge (v10) and Worm World Cave Low (v10).

Jesse Taplin floating up the wall at Climb Base 5. Photo courtesy of Shane Murdoch ©

The following interview was conducted by Miranda Guzzo. Hi Jesse, thanks for chatting with us. How are you feeling going into this weekend’s competition?

I feel pretty good about my chances, at least based on my performance thus far. I mean, it is a National Series Competition, so you never know who might show up from out of province to try and gain a few extra points, but you can’t psych yourself out over something like that. The best thing I can do is to keep training and leave as little to chance as possible and that’s what I have been doing.

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