from Dave MacLeod Climbing
I can’t believe 2 months had passed without climbing outdoors on rock in Scotland. I can’t remember the weather being so unhelpful during the winter for several years. Lochaber has just been hammered with rain and gales and it seems my options for getting on projects have been basically nil. No matter, all the training on plastic has been worth it. But severe withdrawal symptoms from climbing a real piece of rock set in and so I took a gamble and drove over to the Aberdeen sea cliffs in the hope of ...
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from Upskill Climbing
Here's a collection of training tidbits from the world's best climber. Adam Ondra's training regime "I train more or less just by climbing. How simple! I train on couple of small bouldering walls, where I train endurance and bouldering power as well. I rarely climb indoor with rope because there are not good walls enough in the city. The way I train depends on what I am training for. If I am preparing for bouldering, I do just lot of hard boulders. If I train endurance I do laps. I figure out usually 20
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from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
The Amphu Lapcha A quick and cold fair well was given to Baruntse base camp as we got underway for Chukhung. This was expected to be a 12 hour day which would be a shock to the system after trekking for 6 hours at most on the walk in. Walking most of the way with Debbie and Gordon, we all doubted our ability to get over the Amphu Lapcha; however the prospect of failing wasn’t too great as the Amphu Lapcha was the only reasonable way out of the valley other than a helicopter… our time would come for ...
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from Jon Glassberg
I recently got back from climbing in New England for a week with the LT11 crew and we had a blast. It was great to get outside and climb on real rock for a change, pulling on plastic can get old pretty fast. I have always wanted to try the ...
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from Climber's Blog
Nano-cellulose fibers found in fruits and plants can be used to produce a new generation of plastics that are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than current petroleum-based plastics, thanks to a more-efficient way of processing the fibers. Vegetable-based plastics are already being used in the outdoor industry — Smith and Revo both have sunglass frames [...]
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from High Places
Hi Steph, After a winter of learning to climb indoor cracks (wood, plastic and whatever unearthly material they use at Momentum), Im anxious to try my hand (and foot) in stone at the Creek. Although Im now pretty decent at clambering up human made cracks, I have no delusions that I can/should lead anything in [...]
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from Climber's Blog
The effect of plastic ocean litter on large animals has been well documented, while the impact on smaller fish largely has remained a mystery, but a new study from the open ocean of North Pacific Central Gyre reports that 35 percent of the fish tested in 2008 had plastic in their stomachs. One fish had [...]
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from DreamInVertical
Since winter returned to the Bay Area in mid February, weve been logging a lot of time in the gym, and this has resulted in my climbing harder on plastic than I ever have before. Planet Granite has a series of route climbing competitions (free for members, which is cool) during the winter, so we [...]
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from Nalle Hukkataival
It's been forever since my last blog post. As much as I love being constantly on the road, sometimes I just need a little break from it all; hotel rooms, airports, rental cars, airline food, speaking a foreign language, people that come and go… Traveling can get tough sometimes, so I've been chilling in Finland for a while and getting psyched to hit the road again. © Nalle Hukkataival The climbing season here in Finland has been over for long after we got a record amount of snow already at the end of
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from The Adventure Blog
If you've been reading my blog for awhile, and especially my gear reviews, then you probably already know that I'm a fan of Gerber Tools and Knives . I've reviewed several of their multitools and found them all to be excellent pieces of kit that are worthy of being in your pack, and I've even given a couple of their great products away. So, you know that I was eager to get my hands on one of their new knives in their Survival Series , endorsed by none other than Bear Grylls himself. The fine folks at ...
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