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TR - 3 high country classics in a day
Nobody has unquestioning support on here. Certainly not Lord Slime. We all know he's a great climber and we've heard that he's much nicer in person and so on and so on. Over the years h...
Zantop murders
...g much angst to the mourning family and community. I don't really see an issue: Half Zantop was a climber, years back, and the two suspects were young climbers. In the seeming dearth of any o...
Ice climbing guides in New England
...ols have good reputations and are AMGA accredited. Hope this helps. Have fun and be safe. arock(andice)climber ...
Drunken Mountaineers Supercooled Water
...hot of tequila per hour on an all-day climb. He went technicolor on pitch 8, thus losing out to former rec.climber Mattie Thompson, who radioed down from the summit, requesting a bottle of wine for th...
Quokka Trashes Mymountainzone.com
...e slightest bit controversial, Quokka clips it right out. I have a hard time believing any self respecting climber would have anything to do with that crap, or with what is left of MZ. Potterfield had...
Happiest climbing moments?
Climbing trivia question: What climber who lived in a teepee and used his early knowledge of roadkill to later get a fine arts degree combining jewelry with taxidermy had the following experience? ...
New Climbing Areas Database
We've just added a climbing areas database to our site. It allows a climber to perform a search through 20+ years of both Climbing and Rock and Ice magazine issues for information on climbing are...
Hairline Fractures on Kong Black Diamond Screwgate Carabiners
On a climbing trip this weekend one climber noticed that most of his Kong screwgate carabiners had hairline fractures in the same place (refer to image http://www.sreynolds.net/images/caribiner.png ...
Was Saturday a great day or what?
...s, lot's of mud and walls and ropes and ladders and such....fun fun.... Then Birgit,< a german climber I met after Marteen posted asking for info about climbing in california> and I hea...
screw-on holds
Or training the body for major pain. This sounds like the classic gym climber scenario. 'Hey, I've done harder than this in the gym, oh darn, I missed the hold, oh darn, my crappy gear place...
Squeeze job at Red Rocks
...se this will probably be met by a closed mind and some kind of 'go regulate somebody else, i'm a climber and i'll do what i want.' if you've got to remove bolts, try the A...
My Bibler experience
...fabric just a litte more. The 4th time, at Muir, was apparently the final straw. I'm the most careful climber in my group of friends, I'm the one who is known for calling off summit attempts...
Ive got to climb... I need a partner! -- Southwest rock
Climbers, I'm a climber in Wenatchee WA and I'm planning a 3 week road/climbing trip through the Southwest. I don't have much in the way of climbing partners lined up at this point....
Grand Teton North Face/Black Ice beta. . .
... stuff your gloves in there or place a cam. As long as the route is dry, I can't see a solid 5.8 trad climber having anything other than a good time on the pitch. Good luck!...
Features of elite performance.
Karl, First off, I agree with you. I'm a relative gumby and a relatively poor climber - been climbing a little over two years, started just before my 40th birthday and am awfully excited that...
Mountaineering Mental Gymnastics
...e dark to the lake and canoe for an hour. I totally swore off Mountaineering and vowed to become sport climber. And yet a mere 12 hours later I spend 7.5 hours in a car, happy with life and blocki...
climbing around the Columbia River Gorge and Mt Hood
I'm not a rock climber, as I view rock as a necessary evil needed to get one patch of snow/ice to another patch of snow/ice, but three places I know of in the Gorge are Rooster Rock, about 25 mil...
Maryland?!?
...tions at this web site. Click on any thumbnail to see a larger version. Title: INDY'S UNDERGROUND CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN URL: http://www.bcpl .net/~indy/climbing/guide.ht...
Triple score
...? Environmental activist? Summited an 8000 meter peak? Completed more than 20 FA's? Will other famous climbers talk to you face to face? The oldest piece of gear still in regular use on your rack...
Tendon bustin gym routes (long)
...39;s all technique. Brute strength as a climbing quality is almost meaningless. Arnold S. would be a lousy climber. You're making a lot of unsupported assumptions my friend. Fact is, 5.8 slab...
Living Up to My Handle: A TR by blyslv
Living Up to My Handle: A TR by blyslv A climber's first visit to Yosemite is always a special thing - how could it not be? Mine was no different, a plateau shattering four day crack fest wit...
What did you last climb?
I'm not sure if you could call it a route. Monday before last I went out with someone I met in the gym to his project in 'the wildest backyard'. It was a 10K bike ride and another hour ...
Gumbys first lead
Yeeeehah. Yesterday I snuck away from work and had my first 3 lead climbs. All were single pitch and easy, although the climbs seemed much harder than the grade (I guess I better get used to what grad...
TR: Preclimbing life - LONG
I'm on a 2 by 3-foot ledge meeting Death for the first time. The ledge isn't comfortable since the back wall overhangs the ledge a little, forcing me into a limbo stance. I've failed se...
Talking Is Not Complaining
Thank you for relating to my blog entry. It's nice to talk to and get to know another female climber just because of the common sense! Just got out of the field from a 14-day course and it's so nice...
Recent climbing news
...titute - climbing blog had gathered together for us resent news from around the world about climbing and climbers, such as: A team was sent to the south side of mount Adams in rescue of a climber...
Talking Is Not Complaining
Just found another post of a female climber describing a climbing experience with male hardcore climbers. in a paragraph that I felt was taken from my personal experience on various occa...
Bill Wright completed Longs Peak project
In July Colorado climber, cyclist, runner, and all-around endurance nut Bill Wright was more than halfway through an attempt to climb Longs Peak once a month for a year. Dougald from the mountain w...
Would You Do A Reality Show
Found the post at Rock Climber Girl and it didn't take me too long to know the answer. At least for me as interesting as it sounds this Discovery Channel Casting is not something I would cons...
Climbing Videos You'd Really Want To See
With the weather changing it is the perfect time for all those climbers that have waited to climb the North Cascades. In fact the American Alpine Institute - Climbing Blog reports many climbers...
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