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FA: Neal Kaptain

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"Kaptain, a quiet-spoken vegan, had moved west from Colorado to Beverly Hills. Like March, he was a Venice Beach habitué, and found that the acoustics in the local sewers made for great drumming parties. At Horse Flats, his favorite place to climb, Kaptain established the micro-edged Mr. Skin (V7), one of the hardest problems of his era. Kaptain likely could have bouldered harder, but was satisfied to enjoy the solitude of evenings alone on the clean granite among the coulter pines and agaves. 'I just kept bouldering up there and never saw anybody,' he says. 'It was kind of a retreat for me.'" -Wills Young