from The Alpinist - newswire
Mild weather and thick ice welcomed more than 3,000 climbers from around the world to the 17th Annual Ouray Ice Festival this weekend at the Ouray Ice Park in southwest Colorado. An early season of cold nights and warm afternoons created ideal ice conditions in the park's flooded box canyon, which set the stage for the festival's Elite Mixed Climbing Competition. Nathan Kutcher, in his first appearance at the festival, took home the championship title, beating the only other competitor to top out, Andres
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from Rock Climbing UK
Keywords:
Dry Tooling,
Foundry,
ice,
mixed climbing,
Sheffield,
Water Ice in Norway,
seasons ice,
years, ,
plenty of seasons ice,
Lakeland Classic
I’ve done plenty of seasons ice climbing over the last 13 years, I’ve done gully’s and ridges in Scotland and the Lakes, climbed Water Ice in Norway and in the Alps, but so far I’ve never done any of serious mixed climbing, sure I’ve torqued an icy crack on a buttress when the ice has [...] Dry Tooling At The Foundry, Sheffield is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR UK climbers. If you liked this post, you might also like: FigFour Training
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from Rock Climbing UK
We’ve had a long cold winter, but the snow and ice are long gone and for ice climbers looking to keep their arms and axes synchronised and to practice their figures of nine and double hand swaps, dry tooling is the answer. The sport has also grown in popularity over recent years and is now [...] Dry Tooling Evil crag wrecking practice or legitimate training technique? is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR UK climbers. If you liked this post, you ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
The Black Canyon near Gunnison, CO is still a largely untapped big wall resource. Known for its difficult approaches, suspect rock and poorly protected routes, it is a destination that attracts the experienced and bold. The Hallucinogen Wall (5.10 A3+) on the North Chasm View Wall of the canyon has stood as a big wall classic since its first ascent by Bryan Becker in 1980. Becker graded it A5 and spent seventeen days working on the route. Since that first ascent, the wall has seen a fair number of repeats,
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from Rock Climbing UK
For those of you who are unfamiliar with FigFour: Figfour is a specialized training aid for mixed climbing and dry tooling. Designed to allow climbers to accurately replicate the actions of mixed climbing indoors, without damaging the resin holds or base panels of existing climbing surfaces with the sharp picks found on traditional ice axes. [...] FigFour Training aid for mixed climbing and dry tooling is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR UK ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Patrick Pessi's obsession with the north face of Les Droits on the Mont Blanc massif has culminated in the first ascent of Ecaille epique (M5/M6 A1 80 degrees/90 degrees, 1000m). As an adolescent, Pessi memorized the mountain's lines and angles from a poster in his bedroom and eventually grew up to climb the mountain's classic routes. During an ascent of the Messner Pillar, he spotted an unclimbed line that seemed to have potential. After keeping the potential line secret for fifteen years, Pessi made an
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from UKClimbing.com News
Jerry Gore reports on the Ice Climbing Festival in the Ecrins, France.
"By Saturday morning the competition for the Dry Tooling had reached epic levels of excitement with most of the world's best ice climbers in quarantine and awaiting their fate..."
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
Today John and I headed up into the North Face of Ben Nevis to have a look and see what has been left over from the thaw. We saw very little, visibility was very poor with all the falling snow. We headed up to Comb Buttress and climbed Tower Face of the Comb (VI,6). The route was fantastic, excellent climbing and best of all it was in perfect condition. Plenty of good neve, solid turf and not too much snow! The mountain was quiet today with very few people venturing out. A team of lively french men had ...
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from Online Climbing Coach
Donald King ready for a big pitch of weirdness on Unicorn VII,8 Glencoe At this time of year, especially with the deluge of snow, everyone is suddenly psyched to get in their best shape for winter climbing (what? you mean you haven’t been training for months?!). It’s funny to me how much the prevailing memes about training for winter climbing have changed since I started climbing. In the early nineties, some misguided old souls still trained for winter by walking up hills in the October sleet and ...
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from Scottish Tooling Series
One of the regular climbers at EICA Ratho Jason Hoffman has approached the powers that be to see if a small area of the climbing arena can be used during the winter period as a dedicated dry tooling area. The EICA has hosted a round of the STS for the last two years and of course [...]
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