www.lovechclimbing.com | Bouldering, Sport Climbing, Lifestyle Photos & Videos by Ivo Penchev

Alpine Fever the Bouldering Movie • Part Three (3/3)

Ivo — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:54:41 +0000

Alpine Fever the Bouldering Movie • Part Three (3/3) from Ivo Penchev on Vimeo.

Alpine Fever is a climbing movie combining different alpine bouldering areas located in Colorado, USA. “Part Three” shows some new as well as already established boulders. Video was taken during the summer of 2011.

Climbers: James Webb, Brion Voges, Rob D’Anastasio, Sam Johnson, John Gass, Ivo Penchev

Video by John Gass & Ivelin Penchev

lovechclimbing.com
vimeo.com/johngass
johngass.blogspot.com/

PART ONE: vimeo.com/35932552
PART TWO: vimeo.com/38600724

Colorado’s Alpine Bouldering Season

Ivo — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:12:10 +0000

It has been a long time since I had updated my blog. The past month has been amazing for alpine bouldering in Colorado. John Gass and I have been hiking to Mount Evans since mid March and climbing at the Dali wall. Two weekends ago we had Paul Nadler, Alex Manikowski and Justin Jaeger joining us to the Dali wall as well. The next day we also visited Upper Chaos at Rocky Mountain National park. Most of the boulders were still under the snow. We were able to climb at Green 45 and Blood Money.

Below I have uploaded some photos from the trips, enjoy! We are also working on Alpine Fever Three, coming out very soon!

Ivo Penchev on Blood Money at RMNP, CO - Photo: John Gass

Justin Jaeger on Mental Pollution V10, Mt Evans, CO - Photo: Ivo Penchev

John Gass on No More Greener Grasses V12, Mt Evans, CO - Photo: Ivo Penchev

Alex Manikowski on Mental Masturbation V12, Mt Evans, CO - Photo: Ivo Penchev

Paul Nadler on No More Greener Grasses V12, Mt Evans, CO - Photo: Ivo Penchev

John Gass climbing Mental Masturbation V12, Mt Evans, CO - Photo: Ivo Penchev

Alex Manikowski on No More Greener Grasses V12, Mt Evans, CO - Photo: Ivo Penchev

The Crew at the Dali - Photo: Ivo Penchev

Ivo Penchev climbing on Clear Blue Skies V11, Mount Evans, CO - Photo: John Gass

Clear Blue ... Photo Ivo Penchev

Alpine Fever the Bouldering Movie • Part Two (2/3)

Ivo — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:06:56 +0000

Alpine Fever is a climbing movie combining different alpine bouldering areas located in Colorado, USA. “Part Two” shows some new as well as already established boulders. Videos was taken during the summer of 2011.

There will be ONE more video (part 3) left that will include areas such as “Area A” and “Lincoln Lake” located at Mount Evans.

Video by John Gass & Ivelin Penchev

vimeo.com/johngass
johngass.blogspot.com/

lovechclimbing.com

Off The Books V11 & Recession Proof V9

Ivo — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:36:47 +0000

Bouldering at Clear Creek Canyon during this time of the year is great. Yesterday John Gass, Alex Manikowski, Ben and I went back to a problem called “Off the Books” with the hopes of finishing it. On one of my goes I was able to get my left hand on the finish hold but my foot slipped as i was matching it and fell right at the end of the problem. It was desperate but I ended up finishing and matching the hold on my last go. Few days before this climb I was able to climb another great boulder called “Recession Proof”. This one is definitely one of the best v9/10s i have done in the front range of Colorado. The rock is excellent and i love climbing compression boulders so it fit me perfect. Enjoy!

Video & Edit: www.lovechclimbing.com
Music Credits: Mt Eden Dubstep – Prodigy Omen

Alpine Fever – The Bouldering Movie • Part One RMNP

Ivo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:54:24 +0000

Last year in 2011 John Gass and I had decided to start working on short movie series about the alpine bouldering in Colorado. We have managed to record huge amount of the climbing as well as some new first ascents that are to follow in the next few video parts that we are going to publish. You could expect bouldering problems starting at V0 and some much more difficult boulders up to V14. There will be climbing footage of areas such as “Area A” and “Lincoln Lake” both located in Mount Evans, CO.

Feel free to follow my website or our Vimeo accounts for the rest of the movie:

http://vimeo.com/ivopenchev

http://vimeo.com/johngass

John & I have were also able to get climbing videos of climbers such as:
Jimmy Webb
Brion Voges
Brad Weaver
Rob D’Anastasio
Jamie Emerson
Alex Manikowski
Thomas Betterton

Thank you for visiting & come back for more!

Winter trip to Joe’s Valley

Ivo — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:16:46 +0000

Couple of weeks ago Rob D’Anastasio and I made a trip to Joe’s Valley in Utah. We could only spend about 11 days there. The climbing during the first week was amazing, sunny days with mid 40’s and cold nights. We managed to climb and try bunch of good boulders. The weather got a bit worse after it snowed one night. There was barely any snow, maybe half of an inch, but the temps got to below 30 so the snow did not melt on the shady sides at all. The motivation to stay warm and climb hard was not as easy anymore so some of us were barely even climbing. During my stay I had some time to take video and photos of the trip. Check them out below!

Sara Penchev climbing “Killed by Numbers V5″ at Joes Valley Utah

Rob D Anastasio on “Black Dahlia” V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Sam Johnson climbing Finger Hut V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Minko Nikolov on “Beyond Life” V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Ben on “Beyond Life” V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Dustin on “Beyond Life” V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Sam Johnson climbing “Battletoads” V10 at Joes Valley Utah

Brad on “Beyond Life” V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Dustin on “Beyond Life” V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Ben on “Beyond Life” V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Rob D Anastasio on “Black Dahlia” V10 at Joe’s Valley Utah

Joe’s Valley, Utah – “Sling Blade” V4 & “Lactation Station” V10

Ivo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:47:02 +0000

Another weekend at Joe’s Valley. I really like this problem so I went back to climb it. I was hoping for a colder weekend but waking up and climbing at 8am was good enough to get some friction. Lactation Station V10 is located in Dairy Canyon on right fork. The rock is a bit different from the rest and these top-outs reminded me a bit of climbing down south. Can’t wait to go back there when its snowing and cold again.

Joe’s Valley, Utah – Bouldering at Dairy Canyon & Raiden

Ivo — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:32:10 +0000

Fall season for Joe’s is finally here and this past weekend my wife Sara, Mercedes Pollmeier and I decided to go and check out some areas we have not climbed at in the past. I have been following Scott Hall on his Vimeo account crushing sandstone boulders all summer. That got me very motivated to try some new problems.

We arrived at Joe’s around 11:00pm on Friday and the plan for the next day was to go to Dairy Canyon for a whole day. The area was snowed in when we went to check it out, mostly wet. We decided to head towards the Raiden are in left fork, which I have not climbed at in the past. There is this amazing boulder called “Taking The Stairs V9″ which I ended up doing on my second go and another V10 up the hill called “Dunkin Donut’s” which went 2nd go as well.

The next day on Sunday we had a little time to climb since we got lost in the search for Dairy Canyon’s correct left turn… I have to mention that this could have been described as easy as explaining that its the SECOND LEFT AFTER THE “INDIAN CANYON LODGE” sign driving uphill on right fork. The road you make a left on was pretty bad so I do not recommend driving on it if you don’t have good clearance or 4×4 in your car! It is a short distance from the road to the boulders for Dairy Canyon, so if your car is not gonna handle it, park somewhere on the side of the road before taking the left turn.

I managed to get some video of just few climbs. Hoping to get back there soon before it gets completely snowed in and get more of the amazing boulders there on video.

Photo above: Mercedes Pollmeier climbing on Raiden – Joe’s Valley, Utah. October 2011