Great Falls Fundraiser
May 24, 2006
The Friends of Great Falls is holding a fundraiser (PDF flyer) tomorrow in Washington DC.
May 25 – Great Falls Fundraiser
Please consider joining us on Thursday, May 25th from
6-8pm for a Happy Hour Fundraiser to help Friends of
Great Falls save climbing at Great Falls. All proceeds
from this event will be used to preserve climbing
access at Great Falls Park. In particular they will
assist with the costs associated with the Freedom of
Information request filed by FOGF some months ago.We are hoping to raffle a few items as well….
Date: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Time: 6-8pm
Where: Larry’s Lounge
1836 18th St Northwest
Washington DC, 20009On the corner of 18th and T Street….$5 Bass
Popularity: 9% [?]
Climbing tech tips
May 19, 2006
Climbing Magazine has all their tech tips nicely listed on their site now.
Popularity: 7% [?]
New River Rendezvous this weekend
May 17, 2006
The 4th Annual New River Rendezvous is this weekend May 19 - 21 at the New River Gorge, West Virginia. I’ve wanted to attend the past few years, but was never able to make it down. This year I have no excuses living so close! I’m signed up for two clinics - Warriors Way with Arno Ilgner on Saturday and Adventure Climbing with Jeff Achey on Sunday. If anyone will also be going to the Rendezvous this year, let me know and maybe we can meet up.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Rock Climbing Europe
May 15, 2006
Stewart Green, author of Rock Climbing Colorado and other guides, has written a new climbing guide to Europe called Rock Climbing Europe.
“Rock Climbing Europe” is an oversized, sturdily bound paperback guide that Green finished after 15 trips to Europe for research, climbing and interviews with climbers.
“When I started going to Europe in the 1990s, it was difficult to find information there,” he says. “You had to translate guides from French and Italian, and all you had were hand-drawn topo maps and no photographs.”
Green’s guide includes climbing routes with maps and photos in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Germany and Norway - all places, he says, that are steeped in a great climbing tradition.
The result: a climbing book that is part routefinder, part travel guide and part travelogue, with tidbits about the weather (the best climbing in Belgium’s Freyr is between April and late October); cultural highlights (Gothic architecture abounds in Bolzano, Italy); and food (Provencal cooking in the south of France features olive oil and garlic).
Popularity: 23% [?]
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