Trice
Jim Holloway was a new kind of climber. He pushed bouldering from a fringe pastime of climbers to a fringe lifestyle sport of its own.
While living in Boulder, Colorado in the early 1970s Holloway began putting up routes that would go unrepeated for more than 30 years. While many climbers focused on taller objectives, Holloway was establishing hard boulder problems in the hills above Boulder that would later be credited as the hardest boulder problems ever climbed.
He saw bouldering as a discipline of its own and created his own rating scale to assign grades as “easy, medium or hard.”
Holloway first climbed a route Trice (aka: AHR- Another Holloway Route) V12 on Flagstaff mountain in 1975 fifteen years before the V rating used today became standard across the sport. Thirty-two years after its first ascent, Trice was repeated. On the 15th of November 2007 Carlo Traversi and Jamie Emerson made the 2nd and 3rd ascents of Trice and grading it V12.
Holloway made significant contributions to the early development of bouldering in Colorado.
Trice V12