• Memorial To The Ugly

    4 Comments »Posted in Access, Random, Videos by Mar 5, 2011

    For our tribe of avid (obsessed) climbers, climbing helps to keep us healthy, makes us happy (and frustrated, but at least you know you’re alive when you split a tip or scream in anguish as you fail), gets us outdoors, and gives us something to focus on.  It is a wonderfully enriching and extravagantly self-indulgent pursuit.

    We also like to share our experiences, for often they are the times when we’ve felt most alive.  The journey, the pain, the joy, and the inspiration all come together to make wonderful tales.  By sharing our unique visions and perspectives, climbing becomes slightly less selfish.

    So cheers to cruxn, a new grassroots platform for climbers to tell their stories.  Hopefully you will find something that will make you laugh or smile — or that will get you inspired to try something new, try a little bit harder, and come a little bit closer to your own best climbing self.

    Here is a video I made in memorial of The Ugly Project.

    The redpoint was coming into the cross-hairs just when the cliff got shut down.

    Dave Sharratt

    David was born and raised in New England and moved to Asheville in 2006. He is an avid climber, craves adventure, and likes to take photos. Besides climbing David also likes building things and is pursuing a masters in architecture. He and his wife Anna are proudly rearing 2 month old (at the time of writing) Miles.

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Discussion 4 Responses

  1. Matt Paden
    March 6, 2011 at 8:30 am

    Dave, what a great video! The music choice had me laughing from the beginning, and the scenery there is awesome–you can’t ask for a much more aesthetic place for a line. Seems like you we’re painfully close to sending before access got yanked, which is heartbreaking. I got to climb up there a half dozen times or so before it got closed and had a project there myself–the 5.13 Purgatory (I think that’s what it was called), which I was one hanging before the end came. It was amazing to have such stellar sport climbing close to Asheville. I really hope the place has a chance of being opened to climbing again one day.

     

     

     

     

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  2. Zachary Lesch-Huie
    March 7, 2011 at 7:40 am

    Dave, great post–the music really topped it off perfectly! Thanks for the cheers to cruxn--mighty nice of you. In the spirit of your post, here’s a cheers to efforts made to gain legitimate access to that world-class cliff. There’s work to do, but we can do it.

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  3. Sean Cobourn
    April 4, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    hoping to get the cliff re-opened ASAP so you can send this awesome project!

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    • Dave Sharratt
      April 5, 2011 at 6:53 am

      Wow! Thank you for all that you do for Southeast climbing!

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