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USA Climbing Raps into Central Oregon

Bouldering National Championships on tap at the Expo Center

Damian FaganJanuary 30, 2019September 1, 2024

Competitors will literally be climbing the walls as the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center hosts the USA Climbing Bouldering National Championship during the first two weekends in February. The event will feature many elite climbing athletes competing for spots on the U.S. National Team and U.S. Youth National Team in the discipline of bouldering. […]

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Rock Party

Climbers hit the wall for Bend competition

Howard LeffJanuary 17, 2018February 28, 2025

Joey Jannsen creates problems for other people. Specifically, the more than 100 sport climbers descending on the Bend Rock Gym this week to compete in the Bend Boulder Bash. Jannsen’s job? Set vertical obstacle course “routes” for those making their way up the bouldering wall. He’s the head “setter,” which puts him in charge of […]

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Rock Prodigy

Cameron Thomson braces for round two of the Boulder Bash

Sam KatzmanNovember 11, 2015August 16, 2023

Cameron Thomson doesn’t have a letterman’s jacket, although she’s one of the most accomplished athletes at North Medford High School. What symbols Thomson does have to show for her athleticism, however, are some of the strongest, most callous-covered fingers of any 15-year-old in Southern Oregon. Thomson is one of the country’s best rising stars in […]

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