from The Adventure Blog
The Team GearJunkie adventure racing stable grew in size yesterday when it was announced that GearJunkie.com was joining forces with veteran adventure racing squad Team WEDALI for the 2012 season. The newly renamed group will go by the moniker of Team GearJunkie/WEDALI and will join Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers under the GJ adventure racing umbrella . Minneapolis based WEDALI, which stands for We Eat Dirt And Like It, did everything but eat dirt in 2011. The team was amongst the top AR units in North ...
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
Four of us are standing around, knee deep in the chilly northern Pacific Ocean, trying desperately to offset and numb the pain in our legs. We can barely feel the crushed rocks and shells under our feet. Salt is crusted on our faces and jerseys, we all look a dazed, squinting into the sun thats bathing the cove, as our bodies struggle to come back into balance. Were mumbling inanely, wrestling with our incoherent and tired thoughts, but happy to no longer be trapped in our internal monologue. We chatter
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from Climb with kids
It's not often that I can say this, but the drive to Pawtuckaway went off without a hitch ! We left our house at 5:15 am and arrived at the park well before 2 pm. Both kids were loaded into the truck without fuss and they both fell back to sleep for quite a while before waking up for the day. They were still in their pajamas, and clothes were handy for the first "awake" rest stop. We managed to get to the last food/fuel stop in NJ before they woke up - quite a feat! Wehad a cooler of drinks and snacks ...
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from Climber's Blog
There are things in the outdoor life that you simply are required to do. If youre a climber, climb Yosemite. If youre a skier, ski Alta. And if youre a mountain bike, you have to visit the Whistler Bike Park. No matter if youve never worn a full-face in your life, if air beneath your [...]
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from Mountains and Water
Since joining the Moon Climbing team this year, I have had the opportunity to try a number of items made by this small grassroots climbing company based in Sheffield. Though many climbers of a certain age will automatically recognize Ben Moon’s huge contributions to sport climbing and bouldering in the 1980s and 1990s, these days a younger generation may know him primarily through his company. I ordered a number of items that I felt that I could use and that might find favor with American climbers and
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from 2010 Mountaineering Season
He really did do more than eat potato chips and surf the web. We are saying goodbye to Jack today. He's been around here the last few months...taking a mountaineering course, digging holes, hauling dirt and other duties as assigned...climbing Denali and now he's off for greener (warmer?) pastures in the Lower 48. Safe travels and have fun...from the AMS crew.
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from Climb with kids
What is "appropriate" risk? I've been thinking about this question a lot lately as I read other blog posts about risk taking for the adventurous adult (example, Amy Christensen's Expand Outdoors ). Adults in general, and parents specifically, are constantly evaluating risk as it relates to themselves and their children. Getting in a car, going to an amusement park, and even buying groceries (organic), require parents to determine risk and reward before making a choice. When we start to plan a family ...
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from Climber's Blog
From the rim of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River below seemed both meek and mighty. It looked like a tiny band of water barely visible below millions of years of rock, but it was this river, blasting through fierce rapids with dirt and debris, that carved through a mile of rock like a diamond [...]
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from Climber's Blog
Keywords:
Esslinger,
silt,
bumper sticker,
Western Dams Filling,
Gary Esslinger,
southern New Mexico,
Elephant Butte Irrigation District,
28,000 square miles,
Elephant Butte Reservoir,
naturally muddy Rio Grande
If I could create a bumper sticker, says Gary Esslinger, manager of Elephant Butte Irrigation District in southern New Mexico, it would say, Silt Happens.
Esslinger spends as much time moving silt as he does water. Elephant Butte Reservoir, built in 1915, is fed by the naturally muddy Rio Grande, which drains 28,000 square miles [...]
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from Climb with kids
So now that you're convinced that your kids should have their very own chalk bags (or not), where can you find kids sized chalk bags? Well, practical climbing recently sent us a few of theirs to test with the kids (gear review disclaimer ). Here are our initial thoughts. Note: durability testing will continue as we use the chalk bags this climbing season. Let's start with the obvious - the design of the "Monster" (the chalk bag model we received) is a huge hit with the kids. It's fun and certainly get's a
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