Photos by wilson

Patrick Justice works through the bottom moves on a spectacular fall day in Chattanooga.

This is an older shot of an awesome boulder problem at Clack Mountain. A few steep moves through pockets lead out to a distinctive finish on odd water-pocked slab.

This problem rocks despite the ground being a bit too close. Start on jugs, paste feet, elevate. The crux is tri-fold as you must keep feet on to stay off the ground, must negotiate a pair of nasty crimps, and must finish this 10+ move beast.

Dev Ranjan working through the linkup lip traverse near the lake. Great problem on one of the single best boulders I've ever seen (in Kentucky). A harder (V8?) and longer version seems plausible.

Excellent new Red River sport route. Sits alongside entire wall of 3 star routes. Highly recommended.

Awesome slab problem @ Clack Mountain. Double underclings with high feet help make the first move to the bubbish sloper a cool flowing ordeal. Finish with high-ball 5.9 slabbin' and you've got yourself a classic.

Aaron Kupferer attempting the exit moves of Enterprise@ HP40

Aaron Kupferer continues his spring HP40 send-a-thon on this stellar problem.

John Gillespie cranks through the suprisingly hard mantle to finish.

Maybe a new classic and certainly one of the best moderates @ HP40. This line seems to have been overlooked in lieu of harder problems coming straight out of the roof. Aaron Kupferer attempts to boldly go where no man has gone before (perhaps) on Enterprise.

Yet another shot of this conspicuous problem. Shot with a 5 mp sony and levels toyed with in Photoshop 8.

Greg Rueff working out the ultra-mega-classic moves on slow hand.

Greg Rueff finishing off a really awesome problem just to the right of spirit.

Joshua Tree looked cool, but the bouldering was too spread out for my lazy Stoney Point bred a$$. This problem was near Saturday Night Live and both moves on it were just great. Really.

Rob Cardosi (6'5") working with the tall beta on Bumboy and sending... again. Rob makes boulders look tiny.

This was my favorite problem in the world until I walked further into Rocktown. Now, after having seen the entire southeast, it has dropped out of the rankings and my not see any tournament action.

Hardest v1 in the world. I know people have said stuff like this before, but I mean it. THE ENTIRE WORLD. I challenge anyone to present a harder v1. Look at my face and know I speakum the truth.

I never sent this thing before I left California two years ago, but I was trying to "flip the lip" and top it out. The roof was a cinch, but topping out about busted some veins.

really satisfying sequence. had me a bit confused initially, but with the right "stuff" went off without a hitch. photo: greg rueff

the first problem I've done that still doesn't seem very plausible. unfortunately, this particular picture is pretty mediocre.