AKbouldering

Emily Harrington Ice Climbs

Lowber — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:15:04 +0000

Boulder resident Emily Harrington is a 5.14 sport climber and competition climber. Given that I like ice climbing and hard rock climbing, I think its interesting to see what people can do with an alternative climbing discipline. Emily competed in the Ouray Ice Fest comp and placed 3rd.

Plus, its winter. If you aren’t ice climbing, you’d better be skiing.

Shit Climbers Say

Lowber — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:36:41 +0000

Instant classic from the folks at Louder Than 11

Nifleheim

Lowber — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:11:25 +0000

The Nifleheim has been an open project for longer than I’ve been climbing. In the meadow area, the obvious overhang is home to what looked to be one of the most aesthetic and hardest lines in Alaska to date. Todd has put a considerable amount of work into it, and Drew had begun to work it recently.

Some folks I know from Boulder, Jamie Emerson and Brian Capps, are up here climbing for two weeks in Hatcher Pass. On his blog, Jamie compared the problem to the Colorado classic, No More Greener Grasses. Being that Alaska is so isolated, I am excited to see some strong guys come up here to put up harder stuff, and Nifleheim was on their ticklist. Until it broke. Here’s what Jamie said on b3bouldering:

“It was completely cracked and it flexed substantially when it was weighted. Brian rapped down the line and pulled the hold off with his hands and we watched Nifleheim go from V12 to V14 or harder. We tried the sequence briefly but it was way beyond us. It was somewhat disappointing having this problem break as it seemed like a really classic line we could climb, but what remains is a 3 or 4 star V15 for the future generations.”

I wonder if it will ever go?

The Road to Recovery

Lowber — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:13:09 +0000

Recently I’ve began rebuilding the website. I’ve been tackling a couple things at a time each day, making sure that the design is back to functional and making sure the blog is at least running. Lots of new things to come.

Anchorage designer Mike Barcom created a wonderful new mark for the site. Stay posted for some akbouldering swag

Please welcome Drew and Will Crowther as Contributors to the blog. They will be bringing you more reading material.

Coming up next will be a conditions page containing links to all of the latest weather conditions pertaining to popular areas.

As I work on the guide, I will publish one complete area at a time. This will cut down on confusion by eliminating missing sections. In the mean time, if there is something you would like to see on the website please leave a comment and I will make it a priority. Thank you for your patience and support!

Filming Hatcher Pass

Lowber — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:21:29 +0000

This last week we welcomed Chris Alstrin of Alstrin Films to Hatcher Pass to do some filming. He was in town for only a week, but we were able to squeeze in some good climbing.

Check out his website and some of his work.

Big thanks to Chris for coming out and documenting the unique scene we have here in Alaska. For everyone else, look out for the film sometime over winter or spring.

Today I’m headed back out with my medium format camera, happy climbing!

Change is good.

Lowber — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:30:26 +0000

As you may have noticed the site has no content. Unfortunately the site crashed and I lost everything. I am starting to rebuild, and I will take this opportunity to make the site the best resource possible.

If you stumbled upon this site because you need information, please email me, matt@inletcreative.com. I’ll be sure to get you squared away with beta!

In the mean time please stay posted for more, and have a wonderful summer of climbing!