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Scott Franklin. Scott was the first American climber to establish an 8b+ (or 14a) with his first ascent of Scarface at Smith Rock. Contributors: remus. Podcasts. The Enormocast, May 2022. Ascents. 4 recorded ascents. Timeline. Sport 3. Boulder 0. Trad 1. Other 0. This timeline is missing some ascents where the date of the ascent is unknown.
May 18, 2022 · On episode 242 of the Enormocast, I run with one of the big dogs of the 80s, Scott Franklin. Scott was a prodigy shaking up the Gunks and the old ways in the early 80s. He then dropped the taboos against hang-dogging, bolting, top down inspection, and helped usher in the sport climbing revolution we still embrace to this day.
Nov 25, 2021 · Snowbird Changed Everything. How the competition on the Cliff Lodge in Snowbird, Utah, in 1988 changed the face of American rock and competition climbing for good.
- Alison Osius
Specialists in Rock Climbing, Ice Climbing, Hiking and Cross-Country Skiing Since 1970. Check out our price matching policy! ... Flashback: Scott Franklin ...
- Try Some Trivia
- Early Forays
- The Foundry and Other Crucibles
- The Bigger Picture
An old climbing-trivia questionI used to ask at trade-show events was: Who was the first American male to win a climbing World Cup? People would guess. Maybe Ron Kauk? Kauk made some podiums, but no … it was: Jim Karn, La Riba, Spain, September 1988. Karn was the most dominant American male climber of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and he committe...
Hill, Erbesfield, Karn, Shelley Presson and Scott Franklinwere the first leading Americans to commit to comps and the hard-climbing scene in Europe, all moving to France for various amounts of time. Jennifer Souders Cole, who made finals at the first Snowbird event, in 1988, traveled to Europe for the full season the next year, and others went to a...
The Foundry in Sheffield,the UK’s best-known early gym, opened in 1991. Most climbers still gravitated to outdoor areas, made life decisions accordingly. In 1991, Timy Fairfield and Kurt Smith picked me up at the airport in Nuremberg for a World Cup. They had been climbing in the Frankenjura—and in the “Psycho Cellar,” a private co-op in the baseme...
In 1987, the UIAA formed a commission, which met for three days in Chambery, France, to formulate early comp tenets and rules. I attended, sent by the American Alpine Club, which subsequently provided seed money for the American Sport Climbing Federation. Small in membership, the ASCF was run by Ralph Erenzo, Peter Darmi, and eventually Hans Florin...
- Alison Osius
Oct 3, 2022 · Scott Franklin, probably the leading American climber at the time, established Survival of the Fittest (5.13a) in the Shawangunks, New York, in 1985, and soloed it in 1986, the first American to solo the grade, though he says he had done the route so many times (and its difficulties occur down low) that the solo was not major.
Scott Franklin returns on this in-between-eps ep to spray down on the amazing folks he climbed with over the years, including his wife Gea Franklin (Phipps) and Lynn Hill. Also, I ask him about the 1988 Snowbird, UT International Climbing Comp and soloing Survival of the Fittest (5.13).
