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Choose a page number: 1 Climbing RSS FeedsBMC Peak Area Meeting - 8 at the Traveller's Rest, near Flash on the A53 between Buxton and Leek...Feed Source: new.ukclimbing.com Tout A Blocs - 3 day bouldering contest and 1 day gathering on Ailefroide... BMC Alpine Meet - 2nd - 19th August, Arolla, Switzerland.... Derby Two Day Climbing Festival 2008 - Alter Rock Climbing Centre Derby.... South West Film Festival - All weekend, The Mill, South Molton, Devon... Hard Rock Festival - 15th - 17th. The Mill Adventure Centre, South Molton, Devon... BMC FUNdamentals of climbing workshop - 9.30am - 5pm, The Climb, Amersham... Costa Blanca DWS Festival - Costa Blanca 14th-20th September... Dave McLeod - Safe is Risky - 7.30pm Boyd Orr Theatre, Glasgow... International Climbers' Meet - October 3-10th, 2008. Indian Creek, UT... Simon Yates - To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth - London, Imperial College, 7.30pm... Simon Yates - To the Uttermost Part of the Earth - EICA Ratho, 7.30pm... Simon Yates - To the Uttermost Part of the Earth - Glasgow, Boyd Orr Theatre, 7.30 pm... Doug Scott Lecture - A Crawl Down The Ogre - 7.30pm at New Mills Town Hall, New Mills ... Doug Scott Lecture - A Crawl Down The Ogre - 7.30pm at Wakefield College - Thornes Campus, Wakefield.... Coming soon on All Climbing - Lots of things have been in the works over the past couple months thus the lighter posting schedule. So I just wanted to whet everyone’s appetite on some upcoming posts.
More gear reviews will be coming including an upcoming review of the new Evolv Optimus slippers. I just got a pair of these and have only [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Coming soon on All Climbing", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/07/coming-soon-on-all-climbing/" });... Climbing Video: How Organic makes crashpads - Here are two interesting videos from bouldering crash pad maker Organic on how they design and make their crashpads.
(via Organic and B3bouldering)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Climbing Video: How Organic makes crashpads", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/07/climbing-video-how-organic-makes-crashpads/" });... Quick Sends - 7/3/08 - Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama set new speed record on the Nose, El Capitan, Yosemite
Results of the lead-climbing competition in China
Yosemite Museum at Yosemite National Park is featuring new exhibit dedicated to rock climbing
Bill to ban bisphenol-A (BPA) was introduced to Congress
Nau purchased and re-opend by Horny Toad
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Sends - 7/3/08", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/07/quick-sends-7308/" });... Gear Review: the humangear capCAP - With the recent Nalgene and BPA bottle scare, I decided to start replacing my collection of water bottles. To be honest, I hadn’t looked at bottles for a while. I like the standard lexan Nalgene wide-mouth bottles, so I just kept buying them when needed without even really looking at other options. I also know [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gear Review: the humangear capCAP", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/06/gear-review-the-humangear-capcap/" });... Trailer for Perfecto - The trailer for Perfecto, a Mike Call climbing video, showing deep water soloing in Mallorca, Spain coming Summer 2008 (via Get Outdoors and Climbing Narc):
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trailer for Perfecto", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/06/trailer-for-perfecto/" });... Omega Pacific issues inspection notice for Link Cams - Omega Pacific recently released a notice instructing owners of their Link Cams to look for a potential defect:
In May 2008, we became aware of situations in which axle nuts were not properly and permanently fixed on the axle assemblies permitting the cams to potentially become disassembled. Upon receiving the units, our Quality Assurance department launched [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Omega Pacific issues inspection notice for Link Cams", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/06/omega-pacific-issues-inspection-notice-for-link-cams/" });... How to train like Sonnie Trotter - Here’s a good 8+ minute video showing how Sonnie Trotter trains in the climbing gym with an intense campus and hangboard workout (via TubeGuide).
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to train like Sonnie Trotter", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/06/how-to-train-like-sonnie-trotter/" });... Two Interviews with Jason Kehl - The Southeastern Climbers Coalition as well as pimpin’ and crimpin’ have interesting interviews with Jason Kehl on their sites. Check them out.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Two Interviews with Jason Kehl", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/06/two-interviews-with-jason-kehl/" });... Climbing a 5.12+ roof crack in Squamish - Climbing video of a new 30 foot 5.12+ hand crack, My Little Pony, in Chekamus Canyon, Squamish, BC via the Backcountry Blog.
There’s a part 2 coming and hopefully we’ll get to see the lead (and maybe some big whippers off that crack?)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Climbing a 5.12+ roof crack in Squamish", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/06/climbing-a-512-roof-crack-in-squamish/" });... Quick Sends - 6/11/08 - Sonnie Trotter repeats Dave MacLeod’s Rhapsody (E11/5.14c R) in Great Britain
Hot Aches Productions writes about filming Rhapsody
Tommy Caldwell frees Magic Mushroom (VI 5.14a) on El Cap in 20 hours and 2 minutes
Results from the Bouldering World Cup in Vail, Colorado
Dosage Vol. 5 world premiere review
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Sends - 6/11/08", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/06/quick-sends-61108/" });... Quick Sends - 6/4/08 - One of my favorite new climbing bloggers, RockClimberGirl, is featured in an interview on FrontRangeBouldering.com.
Chris Sharma climbs new 9a+/5.15a in Spain
Recap of the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival
Steve McClure climbs new 9a+/5.15a in Yorkshire, U.K.
Ueli Steck wins 2008 Eiger Award
The Access Fund Climbing Preservation Grant applications are due June 15th
Results of the Dimarock International Climbing competition
Alpinist has [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Sends - 6/4/08", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/06/quick-sends-6408/" });... Climbing Video: Climbing a bolted concrete wall - While checking out ClimbingWeather.com as I mentioned in my last post, I was reading their blog and found a link to this video of climbing on a bolted concrete wall.
There’s also a video from the same company, Cojones Producciones, showing crack climbing up the concrete wall.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Climbing Video: Climbing a bolted concrete wall", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/climbing-video-climbing-a-bolted-concrete-wall/" });... Climbing Weather site - It’s time to double check the weather for weekend climbing and I stumbled on a climbing specific web site for weather that I had never used before: ClimbingWeather.com
Usually I have a few bookmarked pages to the National Weather Service for my local climbing areas. ClimbingWeather.com does this better by showing exactly what I need in [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Climbing Weather site", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/climbing-weather-site/" });... Climbing Video: Interview with Reinhold Messner - An interview with the mountaineering great, Reinhold Messner via The Adventure Blog.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Climbing Video: Interview with Reinhold Messner", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/climbing-video-interview-with-reinhold-messner/" });... Review of the Black Diamond Icon headlamp - SplitterChoss.com posts a nice review of the Black Diamond Icon. Apparently, this headlamp can last for 90 hours on one charge.
This is one thing I wish more climbing blogs did - write good reviews of climbing gear. Unlike books or electronics where you can quickly go to Amazon.com and find many reviews, we really don’t [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Review of the Black Diamond Icon headlamp", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/review-of-the-black-diamond-icon-headlamp/" });... Quick Sends - 5/22/08 - Tommy Caldwell and Justen Sjong make first free ascent of El Capitan?s Magic Mushroom
Adam Ondra repeats Action Directe (5.14d) in Germany?s Frankenjura
Nicolas Favresse repeated Greenspit (8b+), a contender for the hardest trad crack in Europe
Markus Bock climbs possible new 9a in the German Frankenjura
Ben Gilmore, Maxime Turgeon, and Freddie Wilkinson have completed the first ascent [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Sends - 5/22/08", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/quick-sends-52208/" });... More confirmation of Miura VS climbing shoes coming soon - At the New River Rendezvous this past weekend, I spoke with a rep from La Sportiva regarding the availability of the new Miura VS climbing shoes I wrote about previously.
He told me the new Miuras should be in retailers within a month as they are currently being shipped to the US.
As soon as I can [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "More confirmation of Miura VS climbing shoes coming soon", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/more-confirmation-of-miura-vs-climbing-shoes-coming-soon/" });... Quick Sends - 5/12/08 - The Olympic torch reaches the summit of Mt. Everest
Rocky Mountain National Park may get wilderness protection
Dream in Vertical takes us on a Bishop bouldering trip with tons of pics
Barbara Zangerl makes first female ascent of Pura Vida (8A+/B) in Magic Wood, Switzerland
Daniel Woods completes new 8c in Magic Wood
Check CAMP Tricams for possible problems
Peter Beal’s [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Sends - 5/12/08", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/quick-sends-51208/" });... Time to throw away your Nalgene bottles - There’s been numerous articles recently written on the problems that have surfaced regarding Nalgene bottles. Since most climbers own one of these, I decided to look into what is actually going on.
I was in the REI in Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia recently and I didn’t see a single Nalgene bottle on the shelves. A foreboding sign [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Time to throw away your Nalgene bottles", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/time-to-throw-away-your-nalgene-bottles/" });... Outdoor clothing store Nau closes - I was introduced to Nau by Andrew Hyde during my trip to Boulder in March. During a brief chat at the TechStars office, Andrew recommended I stop by the Nau store in Boulder before leaving. He praised the quality of their sustainable clothing and fact that the company was founded by former Patagonia employees. So [ ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Outdoor clothing store Nau closes", url: "http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2008/05/outdoor-clothing-store-nau-closes/" });... Copyright © 2008, Real Estate Investment Tips. All Rights Reserved. |
