Feature article in Climbing...

Horse Pens 40 featured in latest issue of Climbing

The latest issue of Climbing is a feature "dedicated" to bouldering as the publisher would have you believe. I paged through it, not much to speak of except some nice pics and an interview with Frederick Nicole.

There is an upside to this issue however, or for many of us a downside, in that it highlights some of the untouched and unclimbed goodness of southern boulders.

Adam Henry actually penned the article, which was well written--Thoreau re-incarnated perhaps?--and he of course gave quite a history of Southeastern bouldering. He also theorized that Southern bouldering was the butt of many jokes and he wished it to stay that way; less visitors means more climbing for southerners to paraphraze Henry. But, he doesn't see this lasting too much longer with the Triple Crown.

Coincidentally, as fun as it may be, the Triple Crown is unexpectedly well-known and popular. Some out here venture that it will soon eclipse the Pheonix Bouldering Contest as the biggest comp in the country. With its rising popularity more climbers will continually come to these areas, which is expected, unavoidable, and good for the Schultzes.

Check it out, there are some cool photos and you can henceforth brag to your climbing friends that "I've been there, I've done that."