Climbers from all over the country converged on Moscow, Idaho at the UofI Climbing Gym on March 7th to strut their stuff on the routes set by Randy Hill and Mike McClure. People as far away as New York and Alaska participated in the weekend of crimping, slapping slopers, pinching and hopefully sending...here are the results.

Palouse Climbing Festival 2009
Open Men's Qualifiers				Masters
Conrad Piper-Ruth	4075	1		Jeff Crawford	3250	2
Mark Polinski	3850	2		Vaiden Bloch	1075	1
Mike Bockino	3825	3
Beau Stuart	3300	4		Intermediate Men's
Ricky Lovejoy	2300			Zach Spielman	2525	1
Mike Spaulding	2225			Earl McAlister	2375	2
				Jacob Johns	2300	3
				Sean Conner	2300	4
				Jonathan Lipke	2025	5
Open Men's Finals				Seth Allen	1900	6
Mike Bockino	1			Joey Machala	1675	7
Mark Polinski	2			Chris Raver	1650	8
Conrad Piper-Ruth	3			Javier Sparks	1625	9
Beau Stuart	4			Sam Horack	1600	10
				Derek Vance	1500	11
Open Women's Qualifiers				Mark Kinney	1300	12
Tammy McClure	2550	1		Ryan Mann	1200	13
Leanne Leedy	2025	2		Andrew Caraballo	1125	14
Stephanie Carter	1975	3		Cameron Long	1050	15
Sarah Moeser	1725	4		Elijah Forbes	1025	16
				Tom Saylor	600	17
Open Women's Finals				Jesse Kappmeyer	550	18
Tammy McClure		1		Hunter Bloch	0	injured
Leanne Leedy		2
Stephanie Carter		3		Recreational Men's
Sarah Moeser		4		Ryan Zimmer	1250	1
				Mark Nickodemus	1200	2
Intermediate Women's				Leighton Bloch	975	3
Allison Neterer	1350	1		Tim Caldwell	800	4
Elise Clausen	1350	2
Molly Marineau	1075	3		Recreational Women's
Kristen Pilcher	375	4		Brandy Davis	1000	1
Janette Rounds	325	5		Kate Nicely	925	2
Ashley Galand	0	6		Elle Piere	775	3
				Chau Tran	725	4
Men's Advanced
Alex Rice	3575	1
Arthur Debowski	3475	2		Women's Advanced
Derek Foote	3400	3		Heidi Hugunin	2100	1
Steve Dodd	3400	3		Katie Lovelace	1025	2
Andy Gonzalez	3325	4
Mitch Odom	3225	5
Zach Markiss	3225	6
Mark Irving	3125	7
Ryan Guerra	3100	8
Jacob Dolence	2975	9
Robert Rebich	2975	10
Dan Foreman	2900	11
Andrew Connelly	2850	12
Mike Lafferty	2825	13
Brock Axthelm	2525	14
Alex Oberlindacher	1000	15

Palouse Climbing Fest!!!

This weekend, March 6 and 7 was the Palouse Climbing Festival, a weekend filled with yelling a screaming, dynoing for $20 bills, 5.13/12b routes, a lot of psyche, hours of work and one damn good slide show from world renowned photographer Nathan Smith. Check out Nathan's website www.pullphotography.com

Mike McClure and Randy Hill visited from Boise, Idaho to set all of the fabulous routes and problems from the weekend, many thanks to them for their work and effort. Everyone send Mike a get well card, he tore a tendon pulley and will now return to climbing once I have a hard project that he can steal....watch out Riggins.

I will get the results of the comp up today or tomorrow, as I am frantically studying and trying to prepare for a trip to Bishop at the end of the week. Sifting through photos too, and I will get some of them up, as well as a link to the vid of the comp as soon as that is done. For now, you can check out the last one, sans tunes due to some copyright incident, at the UI Outdoor program site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS33-w6Dv1I

Cheers, happy climbing!!