Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ by Drew Ruana

Drew Ruana, #13 in the Combined World Champion in 2019 and one spot from making it to the Olympics, reports on Insta that he has done Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ in RMNP. It was set up by Daniel Woods in 2016 and it has now seven repeats. In October last year Drew stopped competing although there were one possibility left in the Pan Am Championship. Since then, the 20-year-old has done 18 boulders 8B+, 6 8C and 3 8C+ which means he has the best track record in the world by far, the last year. (c) Alton Richardsson, who comments,

"I had definitely not seen so many people at one time in that cave before. It was absolutely a strong representation of the current generation of hard bouldering, or climbing for that matter. I got there just after Brooke Rabatou sent Jade, then Drew set to warming up and fired Creature first go. He looked so dialed and strong on it, it was hard to image he had already spent 15 days on this! Shortly after Drew’s send, Brooke also sent Two Ton Skeleton for two V14’s in a day. Pretty rad sports action."