from Dave MacLeod Climbing
I’m back home from a couple of good days with the Mountain Equipment team in Manchester. I was speaking in lecture at the ME store talking about trying to arrive at a confident state for heading back up to Orkney again for sessions on my project. To help with that I finally got a nice day to head out with Anna and do some tradding. This is the difficulty in Scotland sometimes - Although I feel quite fit now from Steall and board sessions, there’s no substitute for going out and leading a lot of long
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from The Adventure Blog
Way back in January of this year I wrote about Felix Baumgartner and his attempt to set a new record for the highest skydive in history. Recently, Baumgartner has gotten a lot more attention as he neared the attempt, which would see him take a hot air balloon up to 120,000 feet then jump out and fall back to Earth. At that altitude, he would also break the sound barrier, achieving super sonic speeds on his descent. Today, Baumgartner's chief sponsor, Red Bull , pulled the plug on the project, at least ...
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from Jon Glassberg
There are some important events going down in the front range over the next couple of months. I designed a poster for the CCS event at the Spot in April and it has a really cool SQUIRREL on it.Get those nuts squirrel. Get them.
There is also this important event passed along from Mr. Socks:
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from Colorado MoJo
Two of the wildest and most difficult water-ice pitches in the state are in plain view from Highway 50, en route to Ouray and Telluride from points north, plunging down the sheer face of Grand Mesa. Yet few people notice them, and far fewer have climbed them. The routes are tough, to be sure, but [...]
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from Life in the Vertical
I saw this article linked from UKC to the Guardian I thought it was interesting especially the part about how they have been sending a bill to highlight how much the rescue cost despite not actually charging them. Is this a way that UK Rescue Team should go? Having been involved in some CDD case (People needing a kick up the arse rather than real rescues) recently. It would perhaps send a message to hill users to be more prepared and think about there action before heading into the hills under equipped and
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from TheLowDown
Daniel Woods sending spree is picking up speed. Aided by an energy boost caused by the arrival of Mr Always Syked himself, Joey Kinder, who, together with Colette has joined Daniel and Courtney in the Gorges du Loup, Daniel swiftly (I don't know this for a fact, just guessing) dispatched Total eclatch , 8c+, and Quenelle trophy , 8c. According to an eye witness Phil Maurel talked to, Daniel fell trying to clip the anchor on the previous try of Total ..., ending up falling all the way to the ground! The ...
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from UKClimbing.com News
VAT Exemption Petition Knocked Back By No. 10
The Mountain Rescue (MR) for England and Wales is donation funded and staffed by volunteers. They receive no remuneration for their efforts, but are rewarded with a large tax bill.
"We are constantly met with a brick wall when it comes to government making concessions to us on taxes"
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