mountaineering

Forum Post Mountaineering Boots for wide feet
I'm looking for suggestions on good quality mountaineering boots (preferably, but necessarily plastic boots) that will accomodate wide feet. I have size 11EEE feet and am having difficulty fi...
Forum Post FS: Nepal Top Extremes mountaineering boots (Boulder, CO)
For sale: One pair of Nepal Top Extremes leather mountaineering boots. Used about 8 times since I have purchased them, still in excellent condition, tread included. Treated as well with Biwell to ...
Forum Post Mountaineering Mental Gymnastics
...d to pack out on a less than obvious trail in the 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 spen...
Blog Post The Arete Mountaineering Club
The Arete Mountaineering Club was originally was formed in April 1960 by Tom Colley and the late Brian Hathaway. Within 5 years a thriving walking and climbing club of some 40 members had been esta...
Forum Post Zantop murders
I agree ..... it's just that murder and mountaineering seems
Forum Post A Moment of Silence, Please (Mt. Washington Fatality)
I'm pretty sure it was the same guy. He was the caretaker at the Harvard Mountaineering Club Cabin the last few years but I heard he worked at Hermit Lake before.
Forum Post Courses in Chamonix
I'm looking for a mountaineering course (101) in Chamonix in the summer 2001. Instruction preferably in English. If you know any good, reputable schools or guides, please let me know. Links will ...
Forum Post True Summit
Just finished this and it's quite an amazing book, not only as a mountaineering book but as a work of historical scholarship. I suspect it will generate some controversy.
Forum Post New liners for plastic boots
...ition, the company that made thermoflex liners for Raichle, now makes custom thermoformed liners specifically for mountaineering boots. I highly recommend them. Kai...
Forum Post IMAX Stay the hell off the mountain already!!
...ween resuing a fisherman (or a climber) than evacuating someone from Denali; though I know you will not see that. Mountaineering is done largely because it is dangerous. There is no reason society sho...
Forum Post American Alpine Institute group program - thoughts?
A friend of mine and I are signing up for a 6 day (beginner) alpine mountaineering course with AAI. I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with AAI and could offer any opinions about th...
Forum Post Book Review
... for something about a woman on Everest. I have to confess though that I've never read a really, really good mountaineering book by a female author. But I've never read Clouds from Both Side...
Forum Post Devils Tower, Need some info
...rrance still have some of the old bolts too (sure they flex but still should be reliable. Jim Cormier Cormier Mountaineering www.cormiermtn.com Before you buy....
Forum Post Custom boots -- Idaho Springs
...: Morin Boots and Mountain Gear P.O. Box 3277 1446 Miner St. Idaho Springs, CO 80542 800-228-2668 Neptune Mountaineering now has a pediatrist that comes in about 3 or 4 days a week and does cu...
Blog Post The prusik knot
...A Prusik is a friction hitch or knot used to put a loop of cord around a rope, applied in climbing, canyoneering, mountaineering, caving, rope rescue, and by arborists. The term Prusik is a name for b...
Forum Post Cool stuff Ive read lately:
...ners into escaping and attempting to climb the 17,000-foot summit. The act had no effect on the war, it was not a mountaineering first,but its insignificance itself made it an extraordinary act of cou...
Forum Post looking for climbing partner, so md
...? If you're located near the DC area and are at all interested in climbing outside, I'd try joining the Mountaineering Section of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (http://patc.net/chapters...
Forum Post Quokka Trashes Mymountainzone.com
What a pity. One of the Web's best and most popular adventure, climbing and mountaineering forums is being cast into extinction by Quokka following their acquisition of Mountainzone.com. Why? Pos...
Forum Post rock climbing shoes?
... part of the price of climbing. While I'm here, I have a q too. Since rock climbing is more a means to a mountaineering end than my primary interest, what are some of the pros and cons of var...
Forum Post Avalanche shovel
I kind of like the Chouinard/Black Diamond mountaineering shovel. I bought the Chouinard version years ago and just bought the Black Diamond version as a replacement. It's cool because you can pu...
Forum Post Interested in Climbing accident details
...om carelessness/inexperience as opposed to gear failure. >> Check out 'Accidents in North American Mountaineering', published annually by the American Alpine Club: http://www.A...
Forum Post Drunken Mountaineers Supercooled Water
Mike, Interesting article how they pull mountaineering into it. It doesn't sound like some of the mountaineers I know. 'What we found,' Emilia La Nave, principal author on one...
Forum Post Smileys rock pro
...cturing a product that serves us all well. Omega did buy Smiley's. They've now introduced a line of mountaineering gear which is priced well and looks good. Look for more innovation from...
Forum Post Ice Climbing boots
...hing, but I guess that's just not the way I operate. I don't foresee myself ever doing any sort of real mountaineering or anything; I imagine the use of these boots to be strictly limited to...
Forum Post Concern Over Black Diamond Helmet
...ews item from the UK: Concern Over Black Diamond Helmet By Jon Following tests carried out by the British Mountaineering Council, there's some concern over the level of protection offered...
Forum Post Scarpa climbing shoes for sale
... which is equivalent to about a 10 US. I am selling them because I my passions are predominatly focused on winter mountaineering, and dry rock didnt really do it for me - plus I am raising money for m...
Forum Post Grand Teton North Face/Black Ice beta. . .
...ws. The wall above the ledge forces you to move down and use it for the hands. It's your typical awkward 5.8 mountaineering-type section. There were numerous fixed pins out the ledge and you can ...
Forum Post GA climbing
...vices. We specialize in rock climbing instruction and guiding throughout the southeastern U.S. and South American mountaineering expeditions. Title: Outdoor Recr...
Forum Post 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...
 

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