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Climbing RSS FeedsBMC FUNdamentals of climbing workshop - 9.30am - 5pm, The Climb, Amersham...Feed Source: www.ukclimbing.com Chris Bonington Lecture - Citizens Theater, Glasgow... Jamie Andrew 'Life & Limb Lecture Series - The Music Hall Shrewsbury 7.30PM Box Office: 01743 281281... Jamie Andrew 'Life & Limb Lecture Series - THE BRINDLEY, RUNCORN 7.30PM BOX OFFICE: 0151 9078360... Jamie Andrew 'Life & Limb Lecture Series - THE GATEHOUSE, STAFFORD 7.30PM BOX OFFICE: 01785 254653... Costa Blanca DWS Festival - Costa Blanca 14th-20th September... Dave McLeod - Don't Die Lecture and Masterclasses - Edinburgh International Climbing Arena: Ratho
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Lecture starts at 19.00... Dave McLeod - Safe is Risky - 7.30pm Boyd Orr Theatre, Glasgow... Dave Graham Lecture - Dynamic Rock, Swansea.... International Climbers' Meet - October 3-10th, 2008. Indian Creek, UT... Dave Graham Lecture - The Arch, London... Dave Graham Lecture - Climbing Works, Sheffield... Best Of Banff Film Night - Buxton Opera House... Simon Yates - To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth - London, Imperial College, 7.30pm... Dave Graham Lecture - Ambleside... Move to Colorado is complete - I wrote a few months ago about my eventual move to Colorado. Well, after much effort, I’m finally here. My wife and I drove the 1520 miles from Blacksburg this past weekend and we’re trying to get settled.
On my prior post both here and on my personal blog, many asked where I was planning on [ ]ShareThis... Quick Sends - 8/1/08 - Czech climber Adam Ondra redpointed WoGu (5.14) in Switzerland
Red River Gorge’s Torrent Falls re-opens to climbers
Peregrine closures lifted for all USFS and non-FS climbing areas in North Carolina
Dave Macleod frees Echo Wall, Scotland
China closes Mt. Everest for spring cleanup in 2009
Nicolas Favresse makes second ascent of Cobra Crack (5.14)
ShareThis... Top ten reasons to rock climb with girls - Today we have a guest post from Sara Lingafelter who writes at the climbing blog RockClimberGirl.com.
Top ten reasons to rock climb with girls:
1. Some of us have nice thin (but strong!) forearms, itty bitty wrists and long fingers; perfect for cleaning stuck nuts and walked cams. I rescued a blue Camalot on a [ ]ShareThis... New England Ropes recalls two Maxim ropes - I just received an email from an old climbing partner directing me to an announcement on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission site stating that New England Ropes is recalling two types of their ropes.
The company says the reason for the recall is the ropes “may not pass the required 5 falls, and may [ ]ShareThis... Gear Review: Evolv Optimus climbing shoes - I’ve been looking for a new climbing shoe for a while that was either a velcro or a slipper for mostly quick on/off while bouldering. I currently climb with La Sportiva Miura’s for just about all routes and I absolutely love them. They have the best fit and performance of any climbing show I’ve worn. [ ]ShareThis... Coming soon on All Climbing - Lots of things have been in the works over the past couple months thus the lighter posting schedule. So I just wanted to whet everyone’s appetite on some upcoming posts.
More gear reviews will be coming including an upcoming review of the new Evolv Optimus slippers. I just got a pair of these and have only [ ]ShareThis... Climbing Video: How Organic makes crashpads - Here are two interesting videos from bouldering crash pad maker Organic on how they design and make their crashpads.
(via Organic and B3bouldering)
ShareThis... Quick Sends - 7/3/08 - Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama set new speed record on the Nose, El Capitan, Yosemite
Results of the lead-climbing competition in China
Yosemite Museum at Yosemite National Park is featuring new exhibit dedicated to rock climbing
Bill to ban bisphenol-A (BPA) was introduced to Congress
Nau purchased and re-opend by Horny Toad
ShareThis... Gear Review: the humangear capCAP - With the recent Nalgene and BPA bottle scare, I decided to start replacing my collection of water bottles. To be honest, I hadn’t looked at bottles for a while. I like the standard lexan Nalgene wide-mouth bottles, so I just kept buying them when needed without even really looking at other options. I also know [ ]ShareThis... Trailer for Perfecto - The trailer for Perfecto, a Mike Call climbing video, showing deep water soloing in Mallorca, Spain coming Summer 2008 (via Get Outdoors and Climbing Narc):
ShareThis... Omega Pacific issues inspection notice for Link Cams - Omega Pacific recently released a notice instructing owners of their Link Cams to look for a potential defect:
In May 2008, we became aware of situations in which axle nuts were not properly and permanently fixed on the axle assemblies permitting the cams to potentially become disassembled. Upon receiving the units, our Quality Assurance department launched [ ]ShareThis... How to train like Sonnie Trotter - Here’s a good 8+ minute video showing how Sonnie Trotter trains in the climbing gym with an intense campus and hangboard workout (via TubeGuide).
ShareThis... Two Interviews with Jason Kehl - The Southeastern Climbers Coalition as well as pimpin’ and crimpin’ have interesting interviews with Jason Kehl on their sites. Check them out.
ShareThis... Climbing a 5.12+ roof crack in Squamish - Climbing video of a new 30 foot 5.12+ hand crack, My Little Pony, in Chekamus Canyon, Squamish, BC via the Backcountry Blog.
There’s a part 2 coming and hopefully we’ll get to see the lead (and maybe some big whippers off that crack?)
ShareThis... Quick Sends - 6/11/08 - Sonnie Trotter repeats Dave MacLeod’s Rhapsody (E11/5.14c R) in Great Britain
Hot Aches Productions writes about filming Rhapsody
Tommy Caldwell frees Magic Mushroom (VI 5.14a) on El Cap in 20 hours and 2 minutes
Results from the Bouldering World Cup in Vail, Colorado
Dosage Vol. 5 world premiere review
ShareThis... Quick Sends - 6/4/08 - One of my favorite new climbing bloggers, RockClimberGirl, is featured in an interview on FrontRangeBouldering.com.
Chris Sharma climbs new 9a+/5.15a in Spain
Recap of the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival
Steve McClure climbs new 9a+/5.15a in Yorkshire, U.K.
Ueli Steck wins 2008 Eiger Award
The Access Fund Climbing Preservation Grant applications are due June 15th
Results of the Dimarock International Climbing competition
Alpinist has [ ]ShareThis... Climbing Video: Climbing a bolted concrete wall - While checking out ClimbingWeather.com as I mentioned in my last post, I was reading their blog and found a link to this video of climbing on a bolted concrete wall.
There’s also a video from the same company, Cojones Producciones, showing crack climbing up the concrete wall.
ShareThis... Climbing Weather site - It’s time to double check the weather for weekend climbing and I stumbled on a climbing specific web site for weather that I had never used before: ClimbingWeather.com
Usually I have a few bookmarked pages to the National Weather Service for my local climbing areas. ClimbingWeather.com does this better by showing exactly what I need in [ ]ShareThis... Climbing Video: Interview with Reinhold Messner - An interview with the mountaineering great, Reinhold Messner via The Adventure Blog.
ShareThis... Review of the Black Diamond Icon headlamp - SplitterChoss.com posts a nice review of the Black Diamond Icon. Apparently, this headlamp can last for 90 hours on one charge.
This is one thing I wish more climbing blogs did - write good reviews of climbing gear. Unlike books or electronics where you can quickly go to Amazon.com and find many reviews, we really don’t [ ]ShareThis... Copyright © 2008, Pinellas County Real Estate. All Rights Reserved. |