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Road Trip

2009-10-22T00:20:00.000-07:00

Well Next week I'll be leaving for San Fran then driving to Yosemite for a fews days to climb Big Walls and some bouldering, Next I'll be heading to Redrocks and then to Indian Creek for the rest of the time. I hope to have some great shots and a killer time Climbing. See you all when I get back!

WD

Cold!...

2009-10-22T00:16:00.000-07:00

The other day I shoot some photo's in 40 degree weather with the Flu catching up to me, probably not a good day to be shooting photo's. But anyways here is a photo to gander opon.

Alpinist #28

2009-10-12T12:08:00.000-07:00

I will be working with BentGate Mountaineering located in Golden, Co. I will be shooting some of there Rock Climbing to Alpine style photo's for the next 4 up-coming Ad's for the Alpinist Magazine, Here is the newest Alpinist #28 Ad I shoot.

Published Work this year

2009-09-28T09:27:00.001-07:00

http://www.wadedavid.com/Published.html

Crankin

2009-09-28T07:53:00.000-07:00

Just a couple of ad's that ran for the summer.

Recent work from the summer.

All Photo's are Copyright WadeDavid.com

New Stickers

2009-06-25T00:14:00.001-07:00

This Guy at Work made me some cool stickers for free......

Got some new toys!

2009-06-16T16:17:00.000-07:00

This past week I have been saving up for some new gear for photography and climbing. I just recently acquired a Blue Water Lighting Pro 9.6mm/70m (Work Horse Rope), A 3/4 set of CCH Alien Cams Orange and down, and a set of Alien Hybrids. On the photo side I thought it was crucial to get another camera body, because you defiantly need two SLR Bodies for Wedding's (Canon 5D Mark II), and I got these two radio units from Pocket Wizard called the Mini TT1 and Flex TT5, this enables me to shoot faster than 250th of a second in in ETTL mode. So far I have a few wedding's lined up and a few projects coming close on, now I got's the Equip. to help me do so.

5D Mark II

2009-06-12T13:26:00.000-07:00

Just got this in the mail about 2 hours ago..... I am soooo Psyched on how amazing the 1920x1080 30P video is. Hopefully I can get over this head cold and get out to shoot some photo's and video. Here are some photo's of the camera and a cool video.

Images Of Karijini National Park from Michael Fletcher on Vimeo.

Canon 5D Mark II

2009-06-09T09:21:00.000-07:00

Stay Tuned!

More photo's from the Indian creek trip.

2009-05-23T10:25:00.000-07:00

The last image is of my friend curt.

ROCK ART

2009-05-10T01:32:00.001-07:00

Some found Rock Art in Indian Creek....

Spring Trip 2009

2009-05-08T00:33:00.000-07:00

More photo's of the spring trip.

Boulder Canyon

2009-05-08T00:31:00.000-07:00

Felt like poop today but went climbing anyways, here is a photo of my dog Abby getting ready to cross Boulder Creek.

The Vampire

2009-05-08T00:26:00.000-07:00

My good buddy Matt Kennedy sent me some photo's of the Ice Cave Route in Aspen, Co. I decided to call it The Vampire, I decided not to grade the route, I climbed it because it was soooooo sick looking.

Spring Trip 2009

2009-05-08T00:10:00.002-07:00

Day 1: Wake up early morning to see Indian Creek for the first time after driving the night before, Beautiful! This will be my first trip to and area of Traditional Splitter climbing. Curt and I head over to the Blue Gramma Wall just after a bagel that consists of Swiss Cheese, Avocado, Bacon, Egg and Onion Cream Cheese. First Curt begins to teach me how to make these things called Tape Gloves? and then Curt leads a 5.9 corner crack for us to warm up on and me to learn the ways of Hand Jammin... After a bit of struggling I began to get more of an idea of what to do. About a hour after warming up, Paul, Adrian, and Amos head up to the crag, now well almost have the full crew. After the day is over, Hayden and Eric show up just before dark to get a few routes in. Hayden starts off by nearly soloing the 5.9 I top roped, he put his first piece of gear in about 8 feet from the anchors!... jesus! on a 60 foot route. On our way back to the car Paul convinces Hayden that Blue Gramma 5.11 is a 5.10a and he should try and onsite it. Hayden gets on the route, he is struggling, screaming and barely sends the route, Paul says the route was 5.11 and Hayden is like damn you sand bagging son of a bitch! End of day 1.

Day 2: Waking up to a dust storm! enough about that, now we head to The Optimator Wall, I do my first 5.8 lead, this is a Chimney route and it was one of the best sends of the trip. Later that day I see this beautiful crack climb that starts at #3's and narrows down to .5 BD Cams, I struggle a lot on the first 15 feet then the rest of the route went as if someone set a fire under my ass. As the day continued it began to Snow Dirt! but still able to climb. I would say that the most painful thing about that day would be looking up and catching Dirt Snow directly into the eye socket "SHART SNOW"

Day 3: Battle of the Bulge, Generic Crack 10a now I'm starting to get the hang of this crack jammin stuff, this crack is #1's and #2's which is perfect for me, so I decide to run a train on this thing to I can get the hands dialed. I take a short walk over to Air Sweden 5.13-, I feel that on one of my next trips to The Creek I would be able to concur this beast, but in the mean time I need to get more finger crack skills.

Day 4: Rest day, Get addicted to Nutella, Curt heads to the car wash to get the Travel Quest "TQ" clean off from all the "SHART SNOW", and buy another #2 Cam, and this girl Meg talks about a Spanish to English Dictionary she bought so she can learn? she say's "it does Spanish to English and English to Spanish, Visa Versa" I say "So your back where you started?" Huh......Interesting conversations us climbers have on a rest day.

Day 5: Tower Day at the Bridger Jacks, Easter Tower 10c. Pitch one #3 Master-Cam to #3 BD Cams, Pitch two 10c drilled holes with star drives and pitons "Sketchy", but my trusty Five Ten Velcro Anasazi's are keeping me on the rock.

Day 6: Way Rambo Wall, after warming up on Blue Sun 10B I try to take a stab at Way Rambo 5.12a, everyone tells me that this route is perfect for my size of fingers.... I soon figure out that .075 crack is not for me and I head over back to Blue Sun and scope out this Project to the left in a corner, it would take #0 Master-Cams for 30 feet, then a #00 before the crux and back to #0 and then to #1 Master-Cam after the crux. I got on it on top rope and by my surprise I Flashed It! but after a fews runs, I decided to come back on a later trip to try it placing gear, due to the fatigue I was having that day.

Day 7: Battle of The Bulge, headed up and got on Wavy Gravy for a warm up then over to Big Guy 5.11+, this route is mostly #5 BD cams or a Short Person's Worst Dream.... I got on Big Guy after Hayden sent it with style or as some would say "Slayed it". As I step out on to the super wide crack I soon realized that if I was ever going to send this thing, I am going to have to lay back the crack the whole way and transition back into the crack with Butterfly Scissors hand jams and put in a leg almost to the hip and get a no hands to put in a cam, then back out on the face for some more lay backing, This will be a very hard transition.

Day 8: Dinner and Showers! full rest day with no climbing.

Day 9: Jane Fonda's Total Body Workout 5.11, well the name says it all! I just explain how the climb went for me, first off it took me like 5 different tries to figure out how I am going to climb up the first 15 feet of vagina looking crack, ends up being some scissor legging, palm pressing and body flared chimning? sound fun? then after you get your self up and out, it starts into weird hands from .075 to #2, then to .075 again and then to fists at the top for 40 feet. I would say I got a Total Body Work Out from that crack..... Blaaaaahhhh!

Day 10: Super Crack Buttress, headed up there to get in Incredible Hand Crack and Super Crack. First thing warm up on the most beautiful crack I have seen, The Incredible Hand Crack, Super Sick! Pack a chew and head over to Super Crack another magnificent! climb, to bad my hands don't fit #3's very well, it was a full value climb for Curt, his hands fit well in #3's. Today is soooooooo Hot, every heads over to the cave next to Anasazi to chill for a while and run some laps till the temps get cooler. After Anasazi Hayden wants to get on Fingers in a Light Socket 5.12a, which doesn't fit his hands to well, I decide to take a stab at it and flash it on top rope, I will also save this route for my next trip to lead.

Day 11: Drive to Red Rock NV, set up the tent and begin to Dual with a Mini Scorpion, I won that battle!

Day 12: Wake up in Red Rocks, me, Curt, Christian, and Laura head to Black Velvet Canyon to get on Heart of Darkness and we took the wrong trail and ended up being a 3 hour hike bush whacking, I also encountered a small Rattler and was lucky that I had not got bit. Finally we get on Heart of Darkness, but only able to climb the first two pitches due to the lack of sun left.

Day 13: Calico Hills Craggin, out on there at the Crack of Noon, shooting photo's of Laura on some climbs and then headed up to this roof crack that laura wanted to try, and lastly shoot some more photo's of Curt and Christian on a 5.9+ off width chimney.

Day 14: Black Velvet Canyon, back to this canyon again.... found the right trail this time. Me, Curt, Laura, and Christian all sent Triassic Sands 5.10b and 4 star multi pitch. then after that headed down the gully in the wash lies Wet Dream v12, I gave this thing some tries, I felt that I could have done it in a few tries but I also did not bring a pad......

Day 15: Tunnel Vision 5.8+ 4 star route, first pitch with a Shart Traverse then into a run out Chimney for 6 feet to a rad tunnel section were you start the climb on one end and come out on the other side with minimal gear, I leed most of the pitches and curt got to lead the Tunnel Pitch, after I follow through.... I said to Curt "Here is the Piece of gear Laura and Christian gave me and here is the Piece you placed" Just kind of Run Out, only one piece for 120 feet.

Day 16: Calico HIlls Craggin, warming up to fail......... I'll just leave it at that. Me and Curt headed to the Strip in Vegas to spend the last night there, we stayed at the Tropicana, got hammered and passed out by 1 am.

Day 17: Drive Home.

Summery: Good Friends, Great Time, Much Needed Learning Experience!

Starting up again!

2009-05-08T00:10:00.001-07:00

People want me to blog more.........

The Vampire

2008-08-29T16:26:00.000-07:00

This week I sent a project that I have been struggling on since last year. Stay tuned for Photo's of the climb and a short story.

Sleeeeeeep!

2008-08-21T14:13:00.000-07:00

This recent past weekend I went up to Aspen to try some projects and I got the my campsite and found that I had left my sleeping bag at home, Shiiiiit! so I went to the Ute shop in town there and my good griend Curt hooked me up with a New Mtn Hardwear 800 fill bag, this should be a nice bag for future road trips and the other old bag is going to the sports recycler here in boulder, it is a Synthetic pile of junk Bag.

Ropes Again!

2008-07-21T18:30:00.000-07:00

Well there it is I said it! Ropes Again! I got hooked recently on trad and sport climbing again, and I am super psyched to start getting my endurance back. Bouldering was fun for a little while and I had a lot of fun with it, but lately I have been not to psyched to climb all over these little boulders, I want to head to Utah and Yosemite to do some big stuff. When I say big stuff I mean climbing multi pitch and long sport routes, don't get me wrong by thinking that Wade is gunna get weak! nope! I plan to push the limits as far as I can and try some hard trad 5.13 and up, and some sport 5.14 and up. I won't shut bouldering out, I still love that type of climbing, but I think its time for a change.

Yo

2008-07-11T15:49:00.000-07:00

Sooooooo Siked! Just got my 7" video screen for my Video Crane. "Josh Lowel you better be shakin in your boots", I got that line from a friend that used it one night.

Flatirons

2008-07-05T15:39:00.000-07:00

2 days ago I headed up to the first Flatiron with my friend natalie, we both were psyched to solo the route that climbs the center of the face. I used a brand new pair of Fiveten Anasazi Velcro's and they worked amazing, I felt like I could do a full sprint up the face with no hand's! one could only imagine. Both of us were lucky that we only got rained on just after repelling off the back of the first flatiron and not when we were climbing. Very Shortly after hiking down we headed streight to the Rio for Marg's.

Jade

2008-06-20T20:05:00.000-07:00

I am heading up this Sunday afternoon to try Jade at RMNP, I have stuck the crux move 4 times now and the only thing that is stopping me is the v10 stand to Jade. I feel that Jade is pretty close to my style and if anyone is wondering how I feel about the grade, I feel that Jade could be easy V14 or even V13. I'm only 3 days on the boulder problem, but then again who can really tell how hard it is, I have put up to more than 25 sessions on a single boulder problem before.

WD

DUDE!

2008-06-14T02:46:00.000-07:00

So I switch to team Fiveten, I am so psyched to be wearing five tennies. I just got a new pair of Jet 7's and I think they will work well on sunday when I attempt to take a stab at Jade....................

Neato

2008-05-20T18:16:00.000-07:00

JK has a Cooking Show.

http://www.cryptochild.com/Road2.html

Damit!

2008-05-07T08:08:00.000-07:00

If everything could go wrong it will. I just found out that the new movie Seasons from The Collective ( A sick MTB movie ) Premiered in Boulder,Co on my birthday 4-30-08 at the Boulder Theater, and I did not know about this!

Burn Mother Burn!

2008-03-30T14:11:00.000-07:00

3 weeks ago everyone had to be evacuated from the Table Lands area in Bishop. That ruined my Climbing day and working on my tan. Some people spell there initials in pee, I do it with fire!

Heading out West March 2nd

2008-02-22T22:32:00.000-08:00

Well in 8 days I leave to Bishop to do some climbing, photo's and alot of video. I have one month to Kill as many boulders as I can, and deliver supreme media opon my return home, stay tuned for photo updates through out the month of march.

-WD

Outdoor Retailer Winter Show

2008-01-25T00:12:00.000-08:00

Cool Jacket? Merrell makes it! Merrell.com 99.00

Changing around stuff

2008-01-13T09:13:00.000-08:00

Well I sort of got the video page to work, there are still many videos that don't work at all, but I think I have resolved that. Keep in mind that I am learning on my own on how to manage and build a website and I work fulltime in a non climbing field, so I have very limited time to alter the site between work and climbing. Thanks for your Patience .

wade david

Switzerland

2007-12-01T14:03:00.000-08:00

March 2nd 2008 I will be leaving to Switzerland to climb for a month with my friend Rich, so everyone should be expecting some cool HD video for the site. I am going to be shooting traveling, culture and climbing in switzerland, and I should have some great photo's as well. Stay tuned for more!

New Shoes

2007-11-04T10:29:00.000-08:00

I just got these new Evolv REX shoes and there awsome! I can go from Dirt Jumping on my bike streight to the crag, the front of the shoe, it has a climbing style toe for doing easy climbs around 5.10 and lower. One thing I should mention is that the color scheme on the shoe is not what Evolv makes, I painted in the Black on the toe and heal and the Gray on the sides.

For Sale!

2007-10-24T08:11:00.000-07:00

I am selling my Canon GL2 Camcorder on CraigsList.com (Colorado-Section Denver-City Photo&video-Section) I have no use for it anymore, Beens I have switched to HD. The Camcorder only has had about 10 tapes through it, I used mostly Hard Drive storage on camera so the tape drive has had little use, and is in mint condition with a Canon wd-58 wide angle (350.00) and 6 hour battery (169.95) included.

Here's the Link to the GL2:
http://denver.craigslist.org/pho/456911592.html

Wadedavid.com Going HD?

2007-10-23T09:38:00.000-07:00

Yes the rumors are true that I am going to be shooting HD. I will finish up and release a Hueco, Yosemite, and secret area videos before releaseing the HD video. In the past I had the money to get a HD cam but I think it was a little to early to jump the gun and get one. Why? Because the HD cams that came out a little over a yr ago were way to much for what your getting, Most of the Sony HD cam's are shit, and JVC, But it seems that Panasonic and Canon got it dialed as far as features and shooting Progressive video (1920x1080/720-24p/24p/30p/60p/60i), which is by far better for action sports, vivid colors, and sharpness. Stay Tuned!

Sorry about bad mouthing Sony and JVC, but it's true!

wd

Wadedavid.com Got's a new bike!

2007-10-16T02:45:00.001-07:00

THE BLACK STALLION! AND THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN! (me)

Little Bored with Climbing!

2007-10-11T22:40:00.000-07:00

Latley I have been a little bored with climbing, sooooo I have reverted to Mtn Biking, Urban or Dirt Jumping. There is nothing better than waiting for news parts for the bike to come in the mail, it's like x-mas every day! This week me and Crazy Matt have teamed up to build a 8 ft tall X 15 ft wide curved dirt wall ride that you can also jump out of, pretty Eeefing rad I must add! The jumps and the wall ride we are building is in an area where it is notorious for kids to come by and destroy, I guess it doesn't help that I stole there shovel to use for our jump building. I basically got to head over to the jumps by 3pm before they get out of school so the jumps don't get destroyed. Anyways I have been trying to get some other than climbing footage together for the site, keep in mind it's wadedavid.com not a rock climbing site, even though it mostly caters to climbing. Anyone wants to go ride or shoot Mtn bike footage let me know, v14ordie@gmail.com

Coffee Reheater!

2007-09-21T13:45:00.000-07:00

I'm at work bored out of my mind on night shift and trying to figure out how to reheat my coffee (my coffee maker is broken). I grab a glass bottle pore the coffee in and place the bottle in the 1900 degree oven and presto! you got hot coffee in .8 seconds. I work at a place that makes glass bottles, thats why I have a oven that can reach these temps.

Here is a new photo of Matt in Aspen,Co waiting for the rain to stop.

Big Day at Evans

2007-09-09T21:39:00.000-07:00

Well some strong rad people are in town as of yesterday. Tony L., Dave G., and Issac C.. I mean Rad! as in they all have got a good head on there shoulders, not because they climb hard.

Hits Galore!

2007-08-15T17:23:00.000-07:00

So far this month I have hit 115,000 hits for the first 2 weeks of this month alone, last month I hit 100,000 just for the month. Guess the site is really going now.

2007 Trade Show SLC, Ut

2007-08-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

This was my first trip to the trade show in Salt Lake City, Ut. It was a trip to have fun and explore what the 1141 booths of Dealers, Exhibitors, and Buyers have to offer in this giant Labyrinth at the Salt Palace in Downtown SLC.
I first headed to the Evolv Booth to meet the owner Brian Chung for the first time and check out there new line of Approach and Rock Climbing Shoes, The Optimus is this new shoe Sharma designed and will be out in the spring, I think this shoe will spin a lot of heads. Evolvs booth at pretty large compared to other climbing shoes companies. I think Evolv has a great set of climbers on there team, Including Chris Sharma, Lisa Rands, Lizzy Asher, Chris Linder, and Alex Puccio, I think that the rest of the crew on the Evolv team (Including Me) believing in there product, then Evolv has a great future ahead of them.
I took me about 2 1/2 hours to walk through the show, I end up meeting some new friends, seeing old ones and meeting people for the first time that I have conducted business through by email. I was able to strike some attention to my site by mentioning it to everyone I came in contact with and passed out business cards.
After hanging at the trade show I need to head over to The Front Climbing Gym to shoot video of the Pre-Qualifiers for Mike Call and Josh Lowell, Mike let me shoot from his True DVCPro50 HD camera (Real Bad Ass HD Cam), I am thinking about buying one of these in the future. The comp was cool I had a good time shooting, I thought I got some great shoots. After the Comp I headed back to the hotel room to change and ride my Long board dinner at the Redbrick with my good friends Matt Kennedy, His boss and co-worker, Adrian Robert, and Melissa Marshall. I recently found out that you couldn’t order doubles of anything in Utah, so I ordered a single white Russian and The Migon Steak Ummmmmmm Good!
Day 2 I went to the Trade Show to hangout and chat with some vendors, 5:30 pm I headed over to the Shilo Inn across the street from the Trade Show, the Comp. Finals where starting at 6pm. I helped Mike Call and Josh Lowell shoot video for the Finals and Oh Boy the Problems looked very hard, there were about 1500 and 2000 people watching the comp. Sharma and Alex J. won the Comp. After the comp. I headed over to the after party that Revolution and Mammut hosted, it was one of the best climbing after parties I have been to, there was 5 different rooms with dance floors, Go-Go Dancers and everyone was all dancing up on stage.
Day 3 I packed up my shit and headed home with Melissa M. and Todd from Joy Engine, we made a short stop in Joes Valley on the way back, it was about 80 degrees and slightly windy. Joes was fun for about 2 hours before the sun went down.

Guide's and video's

2007-07-19T14:48:00.000-07:00

I am open to suggestions on Guides to be made for areas and Video's of climbing, please send suggestions to V14ordie@yahoo.com. I will try to accommodate the suggestions.

wd

Tyler Landman, The Modern Man

2007-07-17T19:42:00.000-07:00

Shoot some great photo's of Ty Landman on Ode to the Modern Man V14/15 at Mt. Evens yesterday. Thanks to the help of His Brother Jeff for letting me stand one foot in his hand and the other hanging on to the boulder to get the overhead shot. Here is a photo to gander opon.

ASPEN, Colorado Bouldering

2007-07-06T22:21:00.000-07:00

I saw some pretty cool shit in Aspen, Califonia! oh I ment Colorado, must have had a flash back from Dumb & Dumber. Hoping to go back next weekend to try the direct to "The Power of 11" maybe call it The Power of 12? it is much harder than the left var that first went last weekend. and here are some other mixed photo's of what Aspen has to offer.

POSION IVY

2007-07-06T21:59:00.000-07:00

Bad time of year to head up to the Satalites if you are highly alergic to Poison Ivy! I say Kill'em all, along with Mesqeitos.

New Blog for a New Site

2007-06-25T17:53:00.000-07:00

One of the many photo's I shot at the 2007 Teva Mountain Games in June.