Climbing Video: Daniel Woods in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
January 30, 2008
Daniel Woods bouldering in Upper Chaos Canyon, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado:
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Quick Sends - 1/30/08
January 30, 2008
Emily Harrington and Chris Sharma named adult national champions
Wrap-up videos of the 2008 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market
Lisa Rands gets the first female ascent of The Mandala (V12)
Jordan Romero becomes youngest to summit Aconcagua
Boat Rock Bouldering Competition results
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Bouldering at the Tugging Shacks, New River Gorge
January 29, 2008
The Tugging Shacks is a small, yet very cool bouldering area near Interp and OUL at the New River Gorge. While mentioned on the Waterstone Outdoors site and in an old paper guidebook, there are no details in the popular Sketches guidebook by Chris Anthony.
Here are some shots of a classic V3 arete at the Tugging Shacks.
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6th Annual New River Rendezvous announced
January 27, 2008
The New River Rendezvous, now one of the premier climbing events in the U.S., has announced this year’s dates - May 16-18, 2008.
There will be a few changes this year including pre-registration limiting attendees to 700 (last year was around 1200 climbers) and parking passes will now be needed.
Registration will be live on March 1, 2008.
We will be requiring everyone to pre-register online for a small fee. The days of giving it all away are behind us. It’s not something that we want to do because it means more work for us, but there’s no gettin’ around it. Why you ask? A couple of reasons…The NPS has asked us to limit the number of people who attend the event because the Brunwood is busting out of it’s seams. That means we need to count people and weed out the riff-raff. And B, we also have to kick down for event insurance, and if you know anything about the insurance industry, you know it ain’t cheap.
The event schedule looks to be the same as last year, so everyone should be in for a good time.
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Bouldering problem at Interp, New River Gorge
January 27, 2008
Blacksburg climber Dave Reis on the Ronski Feint (V7) at the Interp bouldering area, New River Gorge.
And yes, despite Dave’s shirtless send of this problem, it was late November!
The problem finishes just to the left of the tree.
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Bouldering at Burnwood, New River Gorge
January 27, 2008
Late in the fall last year, there were some excellent bouldering conditions at the New River Gorge. The next couple of posts highlight some of these problems.
The following pics are of Shampoo (V5) at Burnwood.
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DailyClimber offers climbing gear deals
January 13, 2008
I’ve been following a relatively new site called DailyClimber that offers a single deal per day on a climbing related product. Similar to Backcountry.com’s Steep and Cheap, DailyClimber focuses more on climbing specific items (though there are often more general outdoor products offered). Each item is only offered for one day or until it’s sold out.
Unfortunately, while Steep and Cheap draws from a large pool of vendors, so far DailyClimber has been offering a small selection of manufacturers. As climbers are always looking for good deals on climbing gear, let’s hope this improves and they can secure more arrangements for getting overstocks and the like.
Recent deals have included a Maxim 10.5mm dry treated rope, a Trango Pyramid belay device, and a Stubai Hornet ice tool.
I haven’t seen any products on the site I actually need yet, so I can’t offer feedback on the ordering process or overall integrity of the business. Has anyone made a purchase from DailyClimber?
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The Nuts Museum slideshow and history
January 13, 2008
ChossMonkey.com points us to The Nuts Museum where enormous amount of old climbing gear is displayed in a slideshow.
Along with tons of pictures of old gear, the article that accompanies the slideshow contains a history of nuts and other types of pro.
In 1961, a blacksmith from Sheffield, John Brailsford, then a teacher of engineering technology, created the ever first purpose designed nut, the Acorn. Three sizes (1 inch, ¾ inch and 5/8 inch) were turned on a lathe from extruded aluminium alloy. John Brailsford also tried Tufnol (a resin bonded fibre used by Rolls Royce or Hoover for making light weight, silent gears) and brass for their different properties of hardness. Since the Acorn had a machine nut sitting on its top and threaded on the same sling, this « nest of nuts » offered two options, the machine nut or the Acorn. They were probably the first nuts to be marketed in England, by the Roger Turner Mountain Shop in Nottingham.
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New Hampshire’s Whitehorse Slabs skied
January 12, 2008
Anne Skidmore posts some amazing pictures of Jim Surette and Dan Corn skiing Whitehorse Slabs in New Hampshire.
The fact that they skied down a route I climbed up in the past (Standard Route, 5.5) blows my mind.
Climbing.com has additional coverage.
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Sir Edmund Hillary dies at age 88
January 12, 2008
As has been widely reported, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to scale Mount Everest, died at age 88 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Good coverage and insight can be found at The Adventure Blog and The New York Times.
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Quick Sends - 1/9/08
January 9, 2008
Back from a holiday hiatus, here are this week’s quick sends.
Lynn Hill stops blogging at FindYourDetour.com
Boat Rock gets a deep cleaning
Paul Robinson repeats Terremer (V15) in Hueco Tanks
The Mushroom Boulder in Hueco Tanks is closed.
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