UPDATE: New entries from 2020 have been entered as an update rather than a new post in order to create a triple conjunction of Fall bouldering, which only throws into relief the severe nature of the BLOG-LAG afflicting Kigsblog at this time.
ANVIL MOUNTAIN
Pelitic, Porphyroblastic, Graphitic, Micaceous Schist
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| At the Limestone Band, Brooks is embarking on Alley Traverse (V2, peemarked by author in 2004) spotted by Vince. The new wave of Nome bouldering brought in with the Fall influx. Notice the evidence of pad infection. |
LOST CREEK
Massive Marble
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| Lost Creek is an awesome new find of a bouldering area discovered by Keane in 2020, who stumbled upon this bouldering garden out behind his home in Triple Creek Subdivision. I say "discovered" because this marble somehow evaded my detection all these years. It was nice to have a new area on which to lay down fresh peemarks. Here we see Silas Wade seeking to unlock one of the harder lines that remains uncranked at Lost Creek. |
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| Nice Fall evening at Lost Creek, the room where it was happening in 2020. |
SINGTOOK GRANITE BOULDERS
Leucocratic fine to medium grained biotite granite and granodiorite
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| Several times over the years, lost and wandering on the flanks of the Grand Singatook, Pk. 3870, the most climbed three-thousander in the Kigs out by Mile 45 Teller Road, I've stumbled upon a hanging garden of granite boulders with nice sandy landings. Vince and I visited these boulders in Fall of 2020, (in the vicinity of Pt. 1748 on the North Fork of Crete Creek) and we had a mega-fun day peemarking boulders that carry the distinction of being actual, unmetamorphesized, igneous granite, rather than the usual metamorphic gneiss. Felt good to be climbing granite again. |
HUNDRED_YEAR OLD ROCKFALL - MOSQUITO PASS
Highly resistant coarse grained pelitic paragneiss and schist
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| The best bouldering area in Qaweraq lies by Mosquito Pass where a massive rockfall crossed Windy Creek. A "hundred years" is just a name based on a crude estimate. |
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BLOG-LAG: nearly 2 years. Fall bouldering seasons 2018 and 2019 in superposition. Veracity and objectivity may be affected by in-phase interference. Because featured boulders occupy private inholdings, obfuscation will be loaded in filters.
BANNER RIDGE (Windmills)
Graphitic Schist and Quartzite
VIDEO!! Turn it up!
"Courtyard Arete" best done in early Spring when snow in courtyard forms crash pad for bonebroke landing. Not quite maybe "V1" as video claims, but kigsblog cinematographer Raina liked the ideophonics of the rating so left it in.
"Lowball Girdle" refers to complete circumnavigation by lowball traverse of entire northern rock clump at Windmills for which the cracking of crux north-facing segment is captured in video. Jug visible in my face at crux must be off-routed as it attaches to gruesome 800 lb. detached block threatening supine climber with body-crushing panini. (Choss dispensations are key to longevity in Nome bouldering.) Almost sent all 360 degrees of Lowball Girdle but pumped out at second crux on Courtyard Jut. V1 rating seems fair in this case factoring in endurance required to circumnavigate entire girdle.
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| Emily Riedel pulls down metamorphic choss at Windmills, Fall 2019. |
"Aniyanaq (Handle With Care)" (5.8) sits among this conjunction's harvest of new problems at upper Windmills.
PENNY RIVER CRAGS
Pelitic, Porphyroclastic, Micaceous, Graphitic Schist
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| "TuNniqtuq (Leans Against the Hillside)." Author Allapa high above Penny River. |
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| "Tuyuun (Something Sent)." Penny Crags lean against steep hillside of Pk. 1460 simulating exposure. |
SUNSET ROCKS
Pelitic, Porphyroclastic, Micaceous, Graphitic Schist
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"Orange Wall" (5.8), Sunset Rocks, Emily belays Nick. Gold Dredge in dry dock, freed from spell of gold, Emily's late-season psyche impelled us to climb in Fall dank.
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| Nick on Orange Wall. Every crag has an orange wall. Orange lichen hog tastiest limestone. |
KING MOUNTAIN
Pelitic, Porphyroclastic, Micaceous, Graphitic Schist
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| "Lightning Bolt Crack" (5.10a) or (M6). Sara tries King Mountain 25 ft. test piece. |
ENGSTROM'S MOUNTAIN
Massive Marble
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| Fall 2020 superposition, the top layer of Engstroms through the palimpsest. Brooks belays Claire on "Orange Wall" (5.10a). |
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| "QilaNniq (Shamanic Trance)" (5.6). Nick stemming anomalous patch of sound marble. |
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| "SaGugaa (He Skirted It)." Filtering choss to construct aesthetic movement. |
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| "Suuva Una? (What Is This?)" Nick hanging like bat off kangaroo, in my estimation. Kangaroo Tor located along Engstrom's north ridge composed of coarse grained, Albite Mafic Schist. |
ALEXANDER SUPERTRAMP BOULDERS (Sinuk)
Schist
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| "And what of Lazarus?" Personally, I was not against the bus. Every wilderness should have a bus. Better install ferry across Teklanika than move sacred portal. Dimensional interface only happens if bus is in middle of nowhere. It won't be the same in museum. |
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| "Sriksrik (Squirrel)" (V0). Once or twice over the years I've pulled that lip but usually fear of crushage inhibits send. Recently, in the 2020 layer, I spotted Vince as he pulled through the power pinch for a send. |
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| "Kuvuaq (It Has A Striped Pattern). Supertramps a nice bouldering area. |
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| "Mayualaktuq (He Climbs Up To Look Around)" (5.7). The tundra is a long way down. |
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| "Kikkaq (Empty Space Between Things)." What starts as innocent bridging problem ends in awkward conundrum: there's no easy way to exit the bridge. One becomes trapped in full-body stem position. |
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| "The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness." Chris McCandless |
OLIVER PERRY SMITH ROCKS (Solomon)
Schist
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| "Wavy Crack" on Aaqsuq. Unsent by us but probably sent by Johnson in 1906. |
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| "SanniNaruq (It's Positioned Sideways)." Couldn't quite solve traverse that day. Rules say don't touch ground or top rail. |
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| "Aaqsuq (Raising Block)." Champion fell runner Nick got defaulted into Bouldering Game during his time in Nome through association with nefarious Allapa but Nick is always happy just to be out there. His gravitational influence clearly exerts itself upon the interference patterns of the twinned life phases documented here. |
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| "Ahngala (I Pretend As I Play)" on the Tiksraq at Oliver Perry Smith Rocks. |
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| Other dog bailed but Lucy climbed to top. |
Rock gardens dot Beringia as far as eye can see across both sides of Bering Strait. Leg has been lifted on featured problems in this post creating blog heterodyne from two waves of Fall bouldering, but only for outings on which camera was used, leaving the majority of Fall bouldering events to escape without peemark, ego stamp, or even remembrance. Absurdist Calculus is required to render a boulder problem from the flow of climbing into a static, quantifiable event. Thank you to "Dictionary of King Island Inupiaq" compiled by Lawrence D. Kaplan for the route names which in no way are meant to be taken seriously, at least not as names for bouldering problems. Thank you to "Preliminary Geologic Map of the Nome Mining District" by T.K. Bundzten et al. for the geologic help with local outcrops.
