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Climbing, Adventure, Gear & Choss
Tips & Tricks
Guidebook Maintenance, Part 1
While many areas have seen updated versions, there are likely still some older books in your collection that may not be holding up so well. A common problem is that pages start falling out, which is usually the beginning of the end for a guidebook. However, there is a simple fix to remedy this problem and get many more years of use out of that trusty guide (or at least until the fancy new color version that costs $40 comes out.)
9 Tips For Climbing & Camping With a Kid
Your wife just announced she is pregnant and your family is about to grow by plus one, but all you can think about is what happened to our summer of climbing, camping, and road trips? Yes, your life is about to change, but getting out and pulling down doesn’t have to grind to a halt.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Speed Climbing Tips – Belay Exchanges
by Mike Schneiter Steve and I had set out that morning on what seemed like an audacious mission for two everyday climbers: 31 pitches of climbing with a few thousand feet of vertical gain, a 5 mile hike and a hitch-hiking return to Yosemite Valley. Our objective of climbing the classic Crest Jewel Direct on [...]
Backup That Rappel or Else!
Picture this: It’s the end of a long day of cragging. You’ve been pushing it hard all day, and with the light fading you’re anxious to get back to the car and some ice cold PBR’s. You rig the last rappel, a full 30m off the ground, and cast off. Soon after leaving the anchor [...]
New Western Slope Guidebooks in the Works
I wanted to get the word out that there are new guidebooks currently in the works for the Western Slope. Yes, that’s books, plural, because it’s going to be a two part volume. Rifle will have it’s own book (volume 1), and then the rest of the crags in the area will have their own. [...]
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9/29/12
A Festive Fall Weekend
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7/11/2012
The 2012 International Climbers’ Festival
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