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The Le Conte boulder, also known as the House Keeping boulder, is in Yosemite Valley, California. For more than a decade, I’d been trying to figure out the proudest, tallest line on the block, with no luck. One day, I was playing with my sister Jenny’s kids, Cyrus and Dahlia, in the forest amongst the rocks. They were acting all whacky, wild and uninhibited, jumping and bouncing around from rock to rock and scampering up trees. I had been trying this sick line on the boulder but never figured out the crux move in all the years before. Somehow the kids, ‘anything is possible’ energy drifted into me … Details
Climbing the North Face of Devil’s Tower to Teacher’s Lounge using a countour HD helmet mounted camera