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CONTENTS #26 > DECEMBER 2008/JANUARY 2009
  EnlargeCover: “5.15b NOW exists.” Chris Sharma on the first ascent of Jumbo Love, now the benchmark for world’s hardest route. Clark Mountain, California. Photo: Boone Speed / Aurora Photos
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Features
038 The Visual
Photos in a blender
042 Bouldering The Big Time
Las Vegas has problems and we’ve got the beta
046 Love & Reaction
Before, during, and after Chris Sharma’s historic first ascent of the world’s hardest route, Jumbo Love
050 The Rebirth of Rock Gardens
A local’s tour of the San Luis and Arkansas River Valleys in Colorado
056 Cuba: Fear Me, Fear Me Not
Rob Pizem and friends taste the sweet, forbidden fruit
Departments
016 Entourage
Loaded to blasting point
020 Starting Hold
Finding Forever
022 Word
All writey
024 411
Lake Arco, a Nor’Easter, and 24 hours of Hell
030 Hotness
Add it to your list
034 Drive
Jonathan Siegrist and Colette McInerney
064 Workshop
Hangtime with Ben Moon
066 Homage
The Backyard Crag
069 Lowdown
2008 Hound Ears Bouldering Competition
072 Meet Your Maker
Mike Call
074 Unearthed
Ted Peterson
076 Plastic Paradise
Hangar 18
Riverside, California
078 Coin
The Sharma Set
098 Finish Hold
Transcendental
