Game Time

Autumn is here, you can feel it.  Some mark it with by the leaves changing colours or the fact that the calender says "October" but  have always found Fall to be something more intangible.  It's that crisp cold, the one that brings a smell that they'll never try to replicate through scented candles.  The humidity is leaving us, you can see farther on a clear day; and maybe you can garner just enough friction to send a project or two.

Temperatures that are a shade too crisp for the sustained exposure of rope climbing are perfect for pulling on pebbles.  But crisp is soon going to turn cold.  Below is a video that demonstrates what crisp conditions, natural talent, and an unwavering desire to hold on can bring.  The Game V16 is one of two problems considered to be significantly harder than anything else out there right now.  Both it and Lucid Dreaming V16 will be featured in (shameless plug) the Reel Rock Tour on November 6th.  The short film "The Hardest Move" chronicles what it takes to boulder at this level and profiles the only two climbers currently doing so, Paul Robinson and Daniel Woods.

Some big news regarding the tour will be forthcoming this week.  Enjoy the video.


The Game, World's Hardest Boulder Problem? from Cedar Wright on Vimeo.

News

My apologies for the stuttered start to this thing, it's been an eventful few days that were actually set into motion by the post on the Reel Rock trailer below.  After finishing my tea and watching said trailer a half dozen more times I checked out the tour schedule.  My previous outdoor film festival experience being limited to the Banff Mountain Film Fest, I assumed Reel Rock would be similar; someone travels with the films and presents them yada yada, big deal, blah blah.  No sir, many of the venues all seemed small and random.  There were five shows in Quebec and none in BC.  Weird.

It seemed like the show was available to anyone who stepped up and wanted to host.  So I sent off on email thinking that maybe next year would be a possibility.  To make a long story short the Reel Rock Tour will be coming to St. John's NL, but it won't be next year.  Instead we are going to put this show in a little less than two months.

The Reel Rock Tour will be showing in St. John's on Saturday November 6th at the Inco Innovation Centre at 7:00 pm.  Tickets will be $10.00 in advance, $12.00 at the door, and we are giving the little ones a break by letting kids under 12 in for $8.00 cuz you know, recess snacks and juice are expensive.  More information, including where you can pick up advanced tickets, will be forthcoming in the next few days.  I would like to sit on the selling details until we actually print the tickets and hand them off to ticket agents.

More information about the tour and this year's films is available at their official site, which can be found here. There is also one Facebook page for the entire tour that can be found right here.  I will also be posting much more info and news in the coming weeks.  I hope everyone is psyched, and if you're not, click on the trailer below a few times.  Usually does it for me.

Trailer

I ran across this little gem while enjoying my morning tea.

The Reel Rock Film tour is an annual tour of the best climbing related films.  With no headlining film this year those lucky enough catch the show will have to make do with six short films that cover everything from Daniel Woods and Paul Robinson doing some extreme pebble wrestling to Uli Steck treating extremely large mountains like...well I have no frame of reference, I can't think of anything that I sprint.  

When I first saw this trailer I thought "how many years till St. John's could host something like this?" Then I looked at the schedule and noticed they are doing many smaller shows in Quebec and none in BC.  It seems like if someone steps up and wants to host a show Reel Rock is onboard.  I just finished sending an email to them with a few inquiries.  Obviously, it's a little late for this year but next year... Would this fly here?