vertical world team member, 10 year old drew ruana, just redpointed churning in the wake (5.13a) at smith rocks today. he did it in about 6 tries. old school vertical world team member and many time US team member BHOPS (bryan hopkins)was the belayer and said drew "fricking hiked it".
drew has been climbing since he was little and leading for a couple years now. rudy, his dad is a friend of mine from when i was a kid. i first met rudy when he was living in his van at smith rocks about 20 years ago. his kids are all crushers and i am psyched to have convinced him and his wife to let them join team and really focus on their climbing.
you can check his blog at http://shortycranx.blogspot.com/
although drew doesnt even come close to fitting into the oldguy.com criteria, this for sure is worthy news and for sure makes a coach very proud.
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