New River Gorge : The Curse

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■New River Gorge Curse

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Louder Than 11 traveled to the New River Gorge in West Virginia in December of 2009 to explore the potential that the area had to offer. The mission: Develop exciting and hard boulder problems along the New River in the Blue Hole Sector of the Gorge. Follow Nate Draughn, Jon Glassberg, and Carlo Traversi as they wage war with the CURSE of high water, injury, and devastating snow storms.

I love making videos. The more I learn and get into every aspect of it (save for the business/money side of things) the more I love it. I also love creative challenges–projects that push me to learn new skills and try new things and come out with something that expands the LT11 cannon. I often have delusions of grandeur during the initial planning stages of a project because I’ve found its better to go big and come away with something smaller in scope than to dive into a project with shallow depth. (I even have a scar to prove you shouldn’t be diving head first into shallow depths) This particular project was supposed to be something entirely different when we first came up with the idea. Its an idea that we still plan to produce but probably won’t see the light of release until the end of this year. I was very excited about producing the original idea this go round and it was very hard for me to let that go and concede to the fact that all kinds of unavoidable obstacles where in the way and there wasn’t really a way around them this time. All these projects are in part personal expressions of our creativity. We get really attached to the creative vision and its stressful–even emotionally painful–when your passion gets deferred. It all starts when you start re-writing ideas to appease sponsors. It snowballs when bad weather and record breaking snow storms make climbing/shooting video an impossibility. It peaks and ends when your contingency plan falls through because athlete schedules and sponsor budgets don’t line up for the correct dates. What you end up with is a lump sum of time, money and video footage invested in a project that never came to fruition. So now your presented with a new creative challenge: How do you pull a story out of this?

This is what we came away with:

First in, First Out (V7) – Jon Glassberg FA
Denim (V6) – Nate Draughn FA
Bustin’ Down The Door (V8/9) – Carlo Traversi FA
Royal Blue (V8) – Nate Draughn FA
Bed Of Nails (V8) – Jon Glassberg FA
Wet Your Whistle (V7) – Carlo Traversi & Nate Draughn FA
The Payoff (V10) – Jon Glassberg FA

Extras Include:

Transvestite Slab (V7)
Lime Light (V9)
The Squeal Project (V10)

CREDITS:

Produced, Written, Directed, and Edited by
Jon Glassberg
Jordan Shipman

Video
Nate Draughn
Jon Glassberg
Jordan Shipman
Carlo Traversi

Climbers
Nate Draughn
Jon Glassberg
Carlo Traversi

Special Effects
Jordan Shipman

Music
“Stronger Man” by Mr. J. Medeiros
“Specters Ghost” by Romeo Spike
“Intent” by His Boy Elroy
“Inertia” by His Boy Elroy
“Walk With Me” by MG! The Visionary
“Keep Connected” by Adamatic
“August Dub” by Pretty Lights
All songs licensed via Rumblefish.com

Special Thanks to our Sponsors
Dead Point Magazine
Five Ten
Friksn Clothing
Revolution Climbing

Very Special Thanks to Those That Supported the Project
Jay and Wendy Young
Matt and Megan Stark
Nic Sruil and Michelle Eckert
Jonny Landry
Clark Shelk
Nancy Prichard
Tim O’ Brien

Jon Glassberg

Louder Than 11 traveled to the New River Gorge in West Virginia in December of 2009 to explore the potential that the area had to offer. The mission: Develop exciting and hard boulder problems along the New River in the Blue Hole Sector of the Gorge. Follow Nate Draughn, Jon Glassberg, and Carlo Traversi as they wage war with the CURSE of high water, injury, and devastating snow storms.

All I can really say about the project is: It’s finally OVER! Jordan Shipman and I spent WAY to much time planning, shooting, climbing, and just plain old busting our asses for this short video about the New River Gorge bouldering. We planned for this video to be feature length, epic, and just plain awesome but we ran into some serious trouble along the way. This video is about the CURSE that we were faced with on our trip and despite our best efforts, nothing really went as planned. Regardless, Carlo, Nate and I were able to put up some really great first ascents and certainly wont forget the experience. EVER.