Utah Sport Climbing by Darren M. Edwards

Author:Darren M. Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

As they were the first to climb in American Fork Canyon, there was nobody to tell them that they were doing things the wrong way. They were able to take what they’d learned at Smith Rock and Red Rocks and get creative, evolve it to work with the steep and often loose limestone of American Fork Canyon.

Getting the history of American Fork Canyon’s sport climbing right has proven tricky. When Drew Bedford wrote the first climbing article on the canyon, there was a scramble for people to get their pictures taken on certain routes. Pedersen didn’t feel a need to get his photo taken. As an unfortunate result, the article inadvertantly made it look as if only two people had developed the canyon. As time passed and people asked who’d developed Pedersen’s routes, the joke answer became “the invisible man.” The joke would grow when Randy Leavitt wrote an article on Pedersen for Rock and Ice where he referred to him as the invisible man. Then, highlighting the absurd amount of routes put up by Boyle, Leavitt added that Boyle must be the invisible army.

But the story of sport climbing in American Fork Canyon isn’t the story of one man or two or even, as much as it could be, the story of three. At its core, the story is about having passion fuel your hunt for what you want so that you can see it where others might not, where only the possibility of it actually exists. Who knows how long the limestone of American Fork Canyon would have gone undeveloped if Boyle, Speed and Pedersen hadn’t been so desperate to feed their hunger for climbing. But they were, and they had the ingenuity to build on what others had done and solve the unique problems that stood in the way of what they were hunting.

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