Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

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Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by JSmith » Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:24 pm

For anyone who is interested, Ben "Butters" Harnden continued with his sending rampage today by making the 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher. Congrats to one of Canada's best and most humble climbers!
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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by NateDoggOG » Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:59 pm

Badass!

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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by quantum7 » Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:01 pm

Amazing!

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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by NateDoggOG » Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:18 am

Wait, the appropriate Internet forum response would be, "pics/vids or it didn't happen."

Let's see em!

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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by Nico » Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:52 pm

Wow! This is amazing!!!! I am so happy for Ben, he worked really hard and for a long time on this!!! Bravo Ben!

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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by squamish climber » Thu Nov 01, 2012 9:25 am

A video of Ben Harden's ascent recently went up. Apparently, Harden found a hold that Chris Sharma did not use in his first ascent. For those in the know please comment.
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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by JSmith » Thu Nov 01, 2012 4:46 pm

Ben used a slightly different sequence getting up the 12d slab section. No change in overall difficulty. If anything Ben's way is a bit harder than the way Chris did it.
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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by Brendan » Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:25 pm

And a hell of a lot smoother…

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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by jonny2vests » Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:45 pm

Brendan wrote:And a hell of a lot smoother…

Yeah. He made the big move at the end (which Sharma deadpoints) look almost static.

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Re: Ben Harnden makes 3rd ascent of Dreamcatcher!

Post by dakine » Sun Nov 04, 2012 7:32 pm

Amazing climbing in action, killer soundtrack, Horrendous video work.
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