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Rock Climber | Cedar Wright

Cedar "Ceedy" Wright learned climbing at the age of 21 on Northern California’s majestic sea cliffs. While he worked toward his B.A. in English from Humboldt State, he quickly progressed as a climber and was soon establishing numerous first-ascent free climbs throughout the area. After earning his degree he started wintering in Joshua Tree and spending the rest of the year in Yosemite, where he became an accomplished free soloist, speed climber, aid climber and free climber.

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Oct 27 | THE ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL BOULDER

By Cedar Wright

WOOHOOOO Renan and I have both had our original films selected for the Adventure Film Festival in Boulder Colorado!!! We are honored to have made the cut with over 300 films screened! This will the world premiere for my short film "Pra Caramba" that features the best footage you never saw from Brazil!!! Renan's award winning film about suffering in the center of the universe is called SAMSARA. If you have the time we'd really appreciate you coming out for the festival. GET TICKETS AND FIND OUT MORE HERE!!!

Oct 19 | MALLORCA PSICOBLOG 8 "FIRE OR WATER"

By Cedar Wright

With a few days left in the trip, James Pearson and Alex Honnold climb the hardest route yet, a wild roof encounter over 50 feet above the water.  After some exciting plunges into the water, they finally pulled it off!  Super proud!  Stay tuned for two more "Psicoblogs."  Cheers.  Cedar!!!

Oct 03 | Psicoblog 7 "Smackdown"

By Cedar Wright

So we went to check out this wild cave called "Cala Llombards" and gave it a go.  The seas were the roughest we had seen on the trip and it was really unnerving to be climbing out a huge roof with our backs to the booming, swirling, exploding sea! It was even more unnerving when James snapped a hold and fell twenty five feet onto his back, drawing blood, and barely swimming out!!! Yikes!! Check it out!!!! 

Sep 26 | MALLORCA PSICOBLOG 6 "DEEP BLUE"

By Cedar Wright

Hey Guys. This is Alex writing a little intro for Cedar’s newest masterpiece. He’s slaved hard the entire night to bring you this newest dispatch, which focuses on Matt Segal sending everything. The rest of us are basically on vacation while Matt crushes and Cedar shoots. The weather has improved and everything is going great here. Only a few more days left, so I guess we’re going to motivate and try to finish a couple more routes . Hope everything is going well for everyone!

Sep 21 | The Weather Man

By Cedar Wright

Inspite of inclement weather and unerving sea swells, we have continued to push our limits on Mallorca's wild Limestone Sea Cliffs!  In the last week, we have venture away from some of the more popular cliffs and onto some of the more obscure and terrifying climbs of Mallorca.  There have been some huge whippers from as high as sixty feet, and some proud sends by the whole team.  This is truely a climbers paradise, but at the right moment, high above the sea and barely able to hold on...it can be a truely horrifying paradise!!!  This dispatch features Matt, Alex and James crushing a proud route called the Weather Man with the most difficult moves over fifty feet off of the ground...errr water!  Hope you enjoy!!!

Sep 16 | Psicoblog 4 "Super Soaker"

By Cedar Wright

Good morning one and all. James Pearson here, reporting from not so sunny Mallorca. The rain has arrived hard and done its best to dampen our hopes but through a combination of planning, luck and pure pig-headedness we are still managing to climb.

Cedar is "manning up" on both the climbing and video front. He now has the record for the biggest whip on the trip, and is also working really hard on final cut - usually until 5 or 6am every morning! Here is the 4th psicoblog and Im sure you will agree that his hard work is paying off.

Routes in the film include Los-kot and Two Smoking Barrels, and Snatch and are two of the most fun routes I have climbed anywhere. Klem has a real eye for a line and there are a few more of his routes I am psyched on - stay tuned for more...

Sep 14 | Psicoblog 3 "The Whole Crew"

By Cedar Wright

Hey this is Alex Honnold, writing a little guest intro for Cedar's newest dispatch. Mallorca is pretty much the most fun place I've climbed. We're staying in an awesome house, climbing on perfect rock over the clear ocean. Paradise, I think. In this video Cedar attempts to introduce the rest of the team and show what we've been up to the last few days. It would probably be edited better if there hadn't been an all night rave last night. One of the objective hazards of climbing in paradise. But seriously, we're climbing a lot and we're psyched to get out to some of the newer areas and check out new routes.

If Cedar isn't too lazy, there will be plenty more dispatches of us falling into the ocean. I think Emily has to leave soon, which will cut down on the blood curdling screams, but we'll try to keep it exciting anyway.

Sep 10 | Mallorca Psicoblog 2: "Taking the Plunge!"

By Cedar Wright

So Emily Harrington has arrived on the scene and gotten here first tumble in the rinse cycle! She crushed some routes and whipped off some routes...and generally had a good time yesterday. This blog captures her first moments on Mallorca's wild sandstone, and also features my jump off the top of the 60-foot Diablo wall...with a camera!!! Alex Honnold, and James Pearson just arrived, so stay tuned for more climbs...and whippers with this all-star North Face cast!!!

Sep 08 | Mallorca Psicoblog One: "Testing the Waters."

By Cedar Wright

Wooohooo!! Welome to Mallorca Psicoblogs!!! I've been in Mallorca for over twenty four hours now and had my first taste of Deep Water Soloing. I have to say I LOVE IT!!! I started out my experience with a thirty foot whipper into the ocean!! Stay tuned for more dispatches with North Face rockstars Emily Harrington, Alex Honnold, Matt Segal, James Pearson who arrive soon!!!

Sep 07 | Mallorca Psichoblog!!!

By Cedar Wright

So...I'm headed to Mallorca to meet our Team Athletes Alex Honnold, Emily Harrington, James Pearson, and Matt Segal. Mallorca is a small island off the coast of Spain, where we will explore the island's unique potential for a style of climbing called "Deep Water Solo" or "Psicobloc." If you aren't familiar with D.W.S, it is not for the faint of heart, and entails climbing the wild orange limestone cliffs which surround Mallorca's coastline... without a rope!! Failing on a climb means a spectacular and horrifying plunge into the swirling sea, followed by an adrenaline surging swim for safety!!! Tim Kemple and I will be filming the nail biting mayhem and I'll be posting short video dispatches from the field....so stay tuned for the Psicobloc Psicoblog!!! Cheers Cedar Wright