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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Isaac Caldiero and undeveloped Utah granite

So anyone that's involved in the climbing scene has probably heard of Isaac Caldiero. He's a fantastic climber and an even cooler person. Same can be said for his girlfriend, Laura. Nancy and I have been spending a lot of time with them over the past few weeks and today we joined them again for another journey. Today we headed to some more undeveloped granite boulder problems in the foothills outside Saint George. Isaac has 3 problems that he is trying to put up on one amazing boulder. This boulder probably clocks in at around 100k tons. Stands probably 30-40 feet high from the base of the routes and is heavily overhanging throughout. Isaac has come close on all of the problems and with some more work should have them soon. Grading is quite subjective as Isaac will be the first to tell you however he says that he feels all these problems are in the v13/14 range. From an outside perspective I cant say i disagree. The problems are very powerful on small sloping granite holds some of them with quite sharp inclusions. All this perfectly placed on a 45 to 75 degree overhanging roof. All in all it makes for a fantastic project. Not that anything else would be needed to draw my attention to this area, but there is certainly much much more. Hundreds and Hundreds of undeveloped boulders sitting throughout this valley all being nicely overlooked by pine valley mountain. It makes for breathtaking views and even better climbing. I have thoroughly enjoyed taking pictures of Isaac over the last few days and even more so conversing with him. I leave you now with some pictures of Isaac hard at work on these wonderful projects!













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