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Hammer is a local climbing coach with an impressive ticklist: She won the 2021 overall Triple Crown women's open bracket and sent over 10 new double-digit boulders this season in the Chattanooga area, including the second ascent of The Last Samurai (V11/12). The modern Chattanooga bouldering saga ramped up in the mid to late 1990s, with a crew of climbers including Ronnie Jenkins, Andrew Gross, Luis Rodriguez, Andrew Traylor, Adam Henry, Steven Farmer, and Sean Kearney, to name a few. FEATURES Story by Elaine Elliott Photos by Nathalie DuPré It was the kind of day when low-bearing clouds covered the flattop mountains. St. Elmo's Old Wauhatchie boulders, a cluster of boulders smack dab in the middle of Chattanooga, opened in 2017 (see Climbing No. 383). [Extracted from the article] |
