Climbing Video: Will Gadd climbing icebergs
December 31, 2007
The cold weather keeps me thinking of ice climbing. Here’s a video of Will Gadd climbing icebergs.
A higher quality MOV video can also be found at National Geographic.
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Upcoming Ice Climbing Festivals in 2008
December 30, 2007
The following is a collection of all the upcoming ice climbing festivals in 2008.
January 4 - 6, 2008
Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival
The 8th annual Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival will be held in the Bernese Oberland. Over 450 ice climbers are expected to attend this festival in Switzerland.
January 9 - 13, 2008
Ouray Ice Festival
The 13th annual Ouray Ice Festival will be held in the Ouray Ice Park in Colorado.
January 11 - 13, 2008
Adirondack International Mountainfest
The Mountaineer and Adirondack Rock and River have teamed up to host the 12th annual Adirondack International Mountainfest in Keene Valley, New York.
February 1 - 3, 2008
Michigan Ice Fest
This is the 25th year of the Michigan Ice Fest located on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
February 7 - 10, 2008
Mount Washington Valley Ice Festival
One of the premier climbing events in the country, the 2008 ice festival will be the 15th annual running of the event. This year they even have an Ice Fest 2008 blog. I’ve been to this one twice and it was great.
February 15 - 18, 2008
South Fork Waterfall Ice Festival
The 10th annual South Fork Waterfall Ice Festival bills itself as the “Friendliest Little Ice Festival in the Northern Rockies” and will be held in Cody, Wyoming.
February 16 - 17, 2008
Smuggler’s Notch Ice Bash
I’m not sure how long this festival has been running, but the Smuggler’s Notch Ice Bash will be centered out of the Sunrise Cafe in Jeffersonville, Vermont.
If there are any upcoming ice festivals I missed, please leave a comment below.
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Maintenance issues resolved
December 30, 2007
You may have noticed some intermittent issues with All Climbing over the past week or so. There were some hosting and database issues that had to be sorted out, but everything appears to be in working order now.
For RSS feed subscribers, if you see a couple dummy posts in the feed please ignore them and sorry for any confusion.
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Shared Summits Expedition on K2 airs this weekend
December 12, 2007
NBC Sports is running a TV special this Saturday, December 16 at 2pm EST on the Shared Summits Expedition on K2.
A webcast of the Shared Summits show will air a day earlier at 3pm at http://www.nbcsports.com/k2.
The team was led by Chris Warner, an accomplished mountaineer and owner of the Earth Treks climbing gym in Maryland.
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More details on fire at Alpinist Magazine
December 12, 2007
Alpinist Magazine has a press release out containing more details on the fire that completely wiped out its inventory. The fire destroyed everything they had including back issues, hats, shirts, water bottles, stickers, and coffee mugs.
According to news reports, a forklift operator backed into a gas line in the warehouse, which was owned by the Kable News Company, a fulfillment company that provides subscription services for magazines such as Alpinist. The forklift punctured a gas line; the escaping gas was then ignited by a nearby space heater. The warehouse’s twenty employees escaped without injury, but by the time the 200-plus firefighters arrived from twenty area fire departments to combat the blaze, there was little they could do but let the two-story building burn to the ground.
Rockford, Illinois’, WREX-TV reported Oregon Fire Chief Don Heller as saying that the building was essentially “a box of timber.” “And we’re still trying to figure out why the sprinkler system was shut off in this building,” Heller, who estimated the damage at as much as $8 million, was quoted as saying.
The magazine plans to continue operating as usual as the fire will not affect current subscribers and future publication.
If you’re looking for Christmas presents for the climber in your life this year, now may be the time for a subscription.
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Quick Sends - 12/12/07
December 12, 2007
Spanish climber Patxi Usobiaga onsights 8c+ (5.14c)
Nick Duttle has added a new V14 in Hueco Tanks
Winter Dance sees first free ascent
Photos of unclimbed peaks in China
MEC pulls Nalgene bottles from shelves (via Backcountry Blog)
Results of The Stone Fort stage of the Triple Crown Bouldering Series
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Crack climbing technique
December 7, 2007
You can never have too much insight from great climbers on their technique. Steph Davis has an article on her blog, High Places, discussing her techniques for climbing cracks (via splitterchoss.com).
The key to pure crack climbing, as with every type of climbing, is the feet. I like to start from the basics, which with cracks, is the hand crack. Hand cracks are the nicest, easiest thing you can climb, so you can focus on body position and movement technique, rather than the more precise jamming. If you have never done a handjam, it will feel alien and bizarre at first, but just slide your hand straight into the crack, and flex it, especially the meaty area under your thumb. It will stick, and that’s a handjam. I always say, if I fall out of a handjam, I deserve it :), so I tend to run it out if I’m in solid handjams.
Photo by Dru!
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Fall bouldering in New England - Lincoln Woods and Pawtuckaway
December 7, 2007
B3bouldering.com has two great posts up on bouldering in Lincoln Woods, Rhode Island and Pawtuckaway, New Hampshire.
I’ve climbed several times at Rumney a few years back, but never had the chance to go bouldering at Pawtuckaway. From the pics, it looks like I need to get back up there sometime.
For more bouldering info on these areas, check out Lincoln Woods Bouldering and New England Bouldering.
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