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Bunda ju fora, 9a, by Joe Kinder

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Joe Kinder has repeated Lev Pinter's Bunda ju Fora, 9a, at Acephale, Alberta, Canada.

This is the first repeat of the route after a hold broke. A break that, according to Joe made the route significantly harder by creating an entirely new crux and adding to the old crux. Joe describes the route as a long ~8B boulder sequence into an ~8a+ route:

Bunda Ju Fora is hard... very hard. It's utter power-resistance for roughly 18 moves of squeezing the sh*t outta sh*t, followed by an 8a+ route to the top. It requires complete perfection in executing the moves and there is no room for error or anything to go wrong. The hands must hit each hold perfectly, the temps can't be too cold or too warm, the humidity cannot suck, my skin cannot be taped up too much, my head has to have the will to drop the hammer, and each moves has to get full attention one after another. It is nuts!

The only repeat I know of before the break was made by Dave Graham a few years ago.

Here's Joe attempting the route prior to the ascent:


Joe Kinder is sponsored by: Eastern Mountain Sports, Gregory Packs, La Sportiva, Petzl, Sterling Rope, Metolius, Nutriex and Smith Optics


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21 Sep, 2012
What are the white buckets for in. The vid?
21 Sep, 2012
http://www.joekindkid.com/?p=9766#more-9766 "Stasher buckets" - I presume you leave your gear there so you don't have to carry it up every session. Ha, most crags it would get stolen!
21 Sep, 2012
It's a long uphill slog into Acephale though, and there's virtually nothing there under about the 7a level, so only experienced climbers and going to be going up there... of course that only lessens the chance of them nicking your stuff!
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