Once a four time world cup champion, Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou has completed a nearly impossible 5.14a route dubbed "Bad Attitude" near her home in France.
Raboutou was a four-time World Cup champion in the early 1990s, and she climbed two 5.14a routes in 1993. Now 45, she has two children and has focused on family and her work with the ABC for Kids athletic program at the Boulder Rock Club in Colorado. Although she has continued to climb at a high level, she hasn’t red pointed or even attempted a 5.14 since her competitive days.
But last summer Raboutou and her family took a climbing trip to Rodellar, Spain, and though she had a fantastic time she was frustrated by failing to onsight some of the “in your face” climbs there. “I wanted to go back stronger this year,” she said, and so she added some serious bouldering to her training. “I had Bad Attitude in mind when I headed to France,” she added.
Bad Attitude begins with a 5.13c route that Raboutou had redpointed before, then continues with 14 hard bouldering moves. She had tried the full climb once before when she was much fitter, and, she said, “The opening moves of the crux section were so hard I couldn’t imagine doing it.” Read More
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. -- Related Cos. has built signature buildings that helped to transform neighborhoods in Manhattan, Phoenix and South Florida. Now, the big-market developer is attempting a $3 billion redevelopment to transform this prosperous Colorado ski town.
Related's efforts to revamp the core of Snowmass Village, seven miles west of Aspen, is among the latest and most ambitious of many projects designed to overhaul Western America's aging ski towns -- many of which were built in the 1960s and 1970s.
In Vail, Colo., more than $1 billion in redevelopment will add a Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts condo-hotel and Ritz-Carlton Co. condos, among others. In Park City, Utah, developers at the Canyons, the state's largest ski resort by acreage, are spending $1 billion to double its number of condos and hotel rooms and to expand its retail space by a third by the end of 2010. At Colorado's smaller Steamboat resort, Developer Atira Group is overseeing most of nearly $1 billion in redevelopment work. Read More
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