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Climbing, Adventure, Gear & Choss
Black Diamond Enforcer Glove Review
The Black Diamond Enforcer Gloves are designed for ice climbers and mountaineers who need gloves that not only keep their hands warm but also protect their precious fingers from the painful beatings that so often occur when rubber arm sets in, and bad technique causes your knuckles to hit the ice before the pick makes […]
Pitkin County Open Space Bans Bolting
As reported by the Aspen Daily News, the Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Board has placed a temporary ban on bolting by rock climbers on county land.
Ice Climbing in the Ghost
The American Alpine Club recently ran a video contest, and this was the first place winner. It’s a compilation of footage from a helmet cam of climbing some sweet looking pillars in the Ghost River Valley in Canada. You can find out more about the video here.
Osprey Mutant 38 Pack Review
It seems that a lot of packs aren’t all that great, instead marketed to the masses who don’t really know better and will buy whatever the sales rep at the local gear shop tells them to. Every now and then, however, you come across a great pack that actually does what it’s supposed to, and in that category I would put the Osprey Mutant 38, loaded with features designed specifically for climbers.
Will Gadd’s Ice Tips
Will Gadd is in the middle of one of his biggest season’s of pure ice ever, and as such, has offered up some handy tips over on his blog. Here’s a couple that really stood out with my thoughts on each. “If you get a stuck tool regularly you’re likely placing them both at the […]
Snap, Crackle, Pop – Now What?
So you’re out on a climb, and something goes wrong. Maybe its a crunch in your shoulder, maybe its a loud pop in your hand (so loud in fact your partner thinks you broke some rock off), or maybe it’s more subtle, something you notice at the end of the day. What should you do?
Winter Rock Climbing in Western Colorado
Every year the sun gets lower in the sky, the temps drop and most folks in the valley switch over to winter sports. Skiing, snowboarding, and for the demented few, ice climbing, replace our rock climbing ambitions until the warmer days of spring find us back out at the crags. But not everyone embraces these […]
The Drool – Route of the Month
For a long time the Drool was one of those local secrets that, like Fight Club, you just didn’t talk about (due to sensitive access.) Thankfully that all changed a couple years ago when Pitkin County Open Space bought the property the climb sits on, and you no longer have to hike in looking over […]
Winterfest Fun in Redstone
This past weekend marked the first Redstone Winterfest, a celebration of winter that included ice climbing demos and clinics. My friend Ya and I decided to check it out, and we met up Saturday morning at a casual 10:30am, thanks in no small part to the groovy disco beats of Sparkle Motion in Carbondale the […]
Outdoor Retailer Winter 2010 – Other Fun Stuff
Aside from the really cool things we saw, there were other new and noteworthy items we got to check out from a variety of companies. Petzl The Ange is a new, lightweight carabiner with a very unique gate. Instead the standard wire, it’s more of a single bar with a keylock head, and the spring […]
The New and Improved SplitterChoss.com
Well, it took some blood, sweat and tears, but it’s finally here! The new and improved SplitterChoss.com. Aside from a new look, there’s several cool features with this update. The biggest improvement is that we have merged the two separate sections of the site into one. Now the beta pages are on the same software […]
Redstone Winterfest – The Local’s Lowdown
Your picks are sharp, your bags are packed, and you’re ready to come check out the newest ice climbing festival in Colorado, the Redstone Winterfest. But hold on there stranger, it’s a littler more wild out here than say, Vail, and there’s a few things you should probably know before venturing to Redstone this coming […]
American Alpine Club Promo
We’re still plugging away at the site redesign, which we hope to have live this week, so things on the content front have been a little neglected. Thankfully my friend Dana at the American Alpine Club sent me their new video promoting the AAC and the benefits of membership. For a long time I remember […]
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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