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Climbing, Adventure, Gear & Choss
Ice Climbing Tips – Stay Warm & Happy
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from climbing ice, it’s that equipment matters. It’s not like rock climbing, where you can throw on any stick rubber, some tattered clothes, and just go. It really can, and does, make a huge difference to have the right stuff, and use it properly. With that being said, I’ve […]
The Longest Route in Redstone I’ve Never Climbed
This guest blog is brought to you by Ryan Jennings. It’s a bit long (in fact, maybe the longest post ever on this blog!), but come on, like you have anything better to do sitting in front of your computer on this snowy Monday… You can watch the video here. Well the dust, or should […]
Cedar Wright Indian Creek FA
There’s another great video over at Momentum Video Magazine, again from Indian Creek. This time it’s the first ascent of a route called the Yellow Submarine, 5.12+ R, by Cedar Wright. He found it on Super Crack Buttress, of all places. I think its great that folks are still finding new lines at the crags […]
Ouray Ice Climbing Going Off
Looks like things down south are as good as they have been in years. I’ve been following the San Juan Mountain Guides blog, they’ve been posting great photos of all the action down that way. Sounds like there are many climbs that are in that have southern exposures and usually don’t stick around very long. […]
Indian Creek Video – Pink Flamingo
Momentum Video Magazine has a nice video up in the free section of Katie Brown on Pink Flamingo. Since I can’t embed the video here, you’ll have to visit their site to check it out.
Too Much Work
After a fun filled week where the excitement never stopped, I’ve been working more this week. Guess it catches up with you at some point. The ice is huge and just getting better. Avocado was large on Monday, and still growing. It could easily get as big as it was last year, if not more […]
An Ice Filled Weekend
Good fun to be had in Redstone right now, all this snow means great ice climbing. Friday afternoon Bob and I got out to Marble Falls. I’d been there once seven years ago, and we had to bail because it was mostly a water fall. Never went back since it seems to be hard to […]
Mountain Rescue Aspen Avalanche Seminar
Here’s an announcement about a great clinic going on this weekend at the top of Ajax Mountain. Even if you’ve taken a level one avy course, this is a great refresher. Most folks would probably rather be out enjoying all the snow we’ve been getting, but take one day and on your knowledge so if […]
Redstone Slabs & 30 Foot Whippers
The Redstone Slabs have been on my list for awhile, as I’ve never seemed to be able to get my act together when the conditions are good on this south facing route. After getting back into town from Christmas, I’d heard everything was fat, including the slabs. Knowing the weather for the weekend was going […]
2008 Ouray Ice Festival
The 2008 Ouray Ice Festival is this coming weekend, the 9th through 13th. As always, I’m sure this event will be a blast. If you are going for the first time, expect to be climbing very close to other folks, with lots of flying ice and maybe some flying tools thrown in for good measure. […]
Sparkle Motion – Now That’s Pretty Damn Disco!
Speaking of Disco… This man is a rock star. After a week in Virginia for Christmas, we flew back to Denver, and the next morning headed down to Moab for New Years Eve to catch Chris Kalous’ and Lisa Hathaway’s new disco band, Sparkle Motion. Given the theme, it only seemed fitting to get all […]
Disco Inferno – Feels Like the First Time, Part 2
Finally, part two of our first big wall adventure in Zion. If you missed part one, you can read it here. Early morning in camp. We woke up with the morning light and slowly got our day going. After a quick breakfast, I racked up to lead the next pitch, rated C1. It’d been awhile […]
Bulldog Creek Dog Walk (IV WI 4+)
Hayden Carpenter and Tom Bohanon recently repeated an obscure ice climb on the south side of Mt Sopris. Given a brief mention in Jack Robert’s ice guide, Bulldog Creek Walk is described as being 100 meters of WI 4. What they found was seven pitches of ice in a remote setting that makes for one […]
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