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 James Pearson
...and where better to spend them than South East Asia. Avoiding the cold and the snow, adventuring in the jungle, and eating mangos on the beach - not forgetting a little climbing. To make us appreciate the things to come even more, we spent Christmas and New year in a very soggy England, where there are definitely no Mangos - just a LOT of chocolate. Its safe to say that right now I feel like quite the glutton, but luckily Christmas comes but once a year. In addition to the usual orgy of Tonsai, we plan
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from Happiegrrrl Climbing
Last year, Swanky the van was brand new, to me. I bought it from a cop, and my mother(who was a nurse) once told me “Eye doctors can't see; ear doctors are deaf, and psychiatrists are crazy.” Well, I figure that line of thinking probably goes beyond the boundaries of the medical field, if you know what I mean. Now I know there are plenty of optometrists with 20/20 vision, just like most police are law-abiding citizens, but if the lies this guy told me about that van weren't a crime, I don't know what
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from The Adventure Blog
While I've been mostly occupied with the Raid the North Extreme this week, another event was taking place in Europe that is definitely worth a mention as well. That's where the Red Bull X-Alps 2011 was taking place, which is a very unique race that is a demanding test of endurance, skill, and nerve as well. For those who haven't heard of it before, and I'm one of them, the X-Alps is an event that pits endurance athletes on a non-stop race through the Alps, starting in Salzburg, Austria and ending in ...
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from SAIS Southern Cairngorms
At today's profile site the air temperature was 6 degrees. In these conditions it is important after having dug the pit to run the shovel down the side wall exposing a new surface immediately prior to the observations being taken. In these warm temperatures the exposed face changes very quickly. Here the gloved hand tests for resistance. In this case "four finger" of "4F". Note the large melt freeze grains on the surface. These are typical of a spring snow pack. Far down in the snow profile today we found
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from Happiegrrrl Climbing
It all started, I believe, when I decided to buy a twenty-pound propane cylinder to use for a Mr. Heater unit in the cabin and for cooking fuel while on this southwest tour. Back in October, I went to the Agway in New Paltz and they had only one unit left. I bought it, slightly upset at the price, which was something like $25. Unfilled. When I got the cylinder home, the first night I hooked it up to the Mr. Heater and could not make it work. Not a good omen. A few days later I called the company, assuming
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from SAIS Southern Cairngorms
Looking into Tolmount and the cliffs of Upper Glen Callater. On foot today up to the north slopes of Carn an t-Sagairt Mor for the pit. Looking north to the central Cairngorms from today's pit site. The slope is steeper than it looks; 27 degees. Cairn Toul, Braeriach and Ben Macdui are clearly seen in the background. Despite valley temperatures reaching double figures this afternnon the snow here was rock hard. Air temperature was 2 degrees but an axe was still needed to start excavating the pit. Carn an
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from The Adventure Blog
I'm still working on catching up on news from when I was away, and one of the big stories is the start of the Wenger Patagonia Expedition Race , which got underway on Tuesday of this week. The race, which has become the unofficial kick-off to the big international adventure racing season in recent years, pits coed teams of four against one another in one of the most beautiful, yet extreme, environments on the planet. When the race began, there were 15 teams in the field, including defending champs Adidas
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from Stevie Haston
You can be very lucky with avalanches, but you only have to be unlucky once. I have been very lucky, I also have very good judgment, which I am still acquiring. Hopefully I will acquire a bit more, but don’t be surprised if I don’t, or if I get nabbed by an avalanghi. Any way you can have the latest Avalanche transceiver, the latest carbon probes, and the latest lightest shovel, but how do these help you if you go out alone like I do. They don’t help you! The only thing that keeps you alive is ...
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from SAIS Southern Cairngorms
Today's profile was done at a lower height than recent days. Here the snowpack had softened due to overnight cloud cover and subsequent higher temperatures. Note the old fracture line beyond the pit, triggered by cornice collapse from above. First day for a while that crampons were not neccessary. Higher up though the snow remains rock solid.
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