from The Adventure Blog
Earlier today, Checkpoint Tracker Adventure Racing and Swiftwick , a company that makes compression socks and sleeves, announced that they are extending their partnership . As part of the deal, all of the racers taking part in the Checkpoint Tracker National Championship in October will receive a pair of Swiftwick socks and sleeves for use during the race. The offer is open for anyone who registers before August 15th, and the gear will be shipped to them ahead of time to it can be throughly tested prior to
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from gravsports
"How do I get sponsored?" I get that question a lot. Usually there's a fresh-faced young person on the other end of the email, wanting to quit school and go climbing/kayaking/skateboarding/snowboarding/whatever for ever. And I fully support the idea of following your dreams, even if the dreams turn into nightmares. Sometimes it's a matter of crossing things off a life list until you find what you like. So even bad decisions can lead to good outcomes; it's like turning clay into a pot, sometimes you just
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
In the last three days I’ve heard a few things about Mountain Rescue teams and how to raise funds for them. First, I was chatting to a friend about raising funds for a rescue team with a shortfall right now. He was trying to think of ideas to raise funds directly by increasing donations or by generating cash by business activities. Second, I was asked (as I often am) to post on my blog and retweet messages pointing at Mountain Rescue sites, or other charitable organisations. Third, I was listening to ...
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from The Adventure Blog
Swedish explorer Johan Ernst Nilson is about to embark on an epic and ambitious expedition that will see him travel from the North to the South Pole in under 12 months. If that wasn't challenging enough, he'll also be doing it in a carbon neutral manner, making the entire journey without the use of fossil fuels. The projected is called the Pole2Pole Expedition and it is being sponsored by Audi . The journey officially gets underway today, with Nilson being dropped off at the North Pole, where he'll make
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from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
Well; the last few weeks have been a bit manic to say the least, so it’s hard to know where to start. To get the tedious bits out of the way to begin with, the dissertation has been completed, bound, and submitted, all 90 pages of it! The madness really started about 2 weeks ago, when I sent an email ‘by chance’ to a global business development agency, Wardour And Oxford. The first week was full of ideas being thrown around, most of mine completely overshadowed by the global thought process at ...
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from Mountains and Water
As mentioned in a previous post, boulderers are getting unwanted scrutiny these days for not following the "rules' for a problem. The most recent example is an ascent by Jimmy Webb of Midnight Express , a V14 in Boulder Canyon. Jimmy can certainly climb V14 so there is no issue of claiming ascents of problems to inflate a climber profile. And of all the boulderers out there, Jimmy is the last one to try to game the system. His video shows straight up what he did. Ty Landman emailed me about trying to set
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from The Adventure Blog
Adventure racing fans have a lot to look forward to in 2011 as the calendar of big international races is as full as it has been in several years. One of the top events for the year is scheduled to take place beginning on August 14th, when Expedition Idaho 2011 gets underway at the Silver Mountain Resort in that state. Organizers of the event have begun to leak some details of what teams can expect with a lot of exciting things on the horizon. For starters, they've announced a cooperative program with the
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from Mountains and Water
I have been crazy busy finishing up the manuscript for the bouldering book I am writing for Mountaineers Books so have not been able to post recently. But I wanted to announce my new sponsorship with Moon Climbing . I have never been sponsored by a climbing company before, although I had support from Powerbar a while back. I am particularly psyched to be sponsored by Moon because to me they focus on core activities in climbing and especially bouldering. The Moon website has a great deal of very useful ...
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from Mountains and Water
There has been a lot of buzz about the public launching of a new professional climber's advocacy group, especially with its website now available. Professional Climbers International is the first organization of its kind that I am aware of specifically formed to speak on behalf of and provide resources for climbers who are receiving compensation from climbing companies. This development has not been received entirely positively by all.A media partnership announcement posted by the Climbingnarc caused some
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from The Adventure Blog
Yesterday brought us yet another new episode of The Rest of Everest , as we continue our virtual journey with the 2009 trekking team that made the journey to Base Camp on the South Side of the mountain. This week's episode is entitled " Pillow Talk ," and it deliver, in great detail, on that very topic. The descent from Base Camp continues this week with the trekkers making their way back, slowly but surely to Lukla. The episode opens where we left off last week, with the group camped near Dingboche, one
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