From the category archives:
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A new Harvard study confirms the health risks associated with BPA in polycarbonate water bottles.
We found that drinking cold liquids from polycarbonate bottles for just one week increased urinary BPA levels by more than two-thirds. If you heat those bottles, [...]
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Will Gadd writes a provocative post on the recent deaths of Jonny Copp, Micah Dash, and Wade Johnson and using the tragedy label.
For me I’m never going to use the word “tragedy” in reference to a climbing or mountain sports accident again. A tragedy is when a whole family gets killed by a drunk driver. [...]
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As climbers, we suffer from numerous injuries. One of the more common climber injuries is medial epicondylitis or golfers elbow. Essentially this is pain on the inside of your elbow and it originates from overuse of the flexor muscles. All our gripping without exercising the opposing muscle groups is usually the culprit for climbers.
As I [...]
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I always find articles and videos on how climbing gear is constructed quite fascinating. A couple months ago I posted a video on how DMM makes carabiners and now Backcountry.com has written an article on Black Diamond’s process of making carabiners from start to finish.
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Rock Climber Girl reviews the Mountain Hardwear Clouds Rest women’s sleeping bag.
Steve Casimiro of The Adventure Life reviews the Coleman Lantern, the Therm-A-Rest NeoAir, and the Timbuk 2 Doctor’s Bag.
Climbing Narc and Sicky Gnar Gnar have some first impressions on the Five Ten Projects.
Climbing Hold Review examines Jason Kehl’s Cryptochild holds.
A La Sportiva Speedster [...]
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Fitz Cahall of The Dirtbag Diaries recently launched a new site called The Outdoor Parent.
The Outdoor Parent is a collection of surfers, climbers and skiers who have embarked the greatest adventure — parenthood — and lived to tell about it. Stories, perspective and reflections on parenting, children and the outdoor lifestyle.
As I recently became a [...]
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When I saw the premier of Pure back in February, I mentioned in the notes about the trailer for Rocky Mountain Highball. At the time, I was really disappointed since the premier was scheduled for April 27, the due date for my daughter.
Well, it turns out one of the side benefits of her being born [...]
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Kolin Powick of Black Diamond tests what happens when catching falls through rope-worn biners.
It’s not the ultimate strength of a rope-worn biner that makes me the most nervous; it’s the risk of cutting a rope. As the biners get grooved or “trenched” from rope wear, a sharp edge begins to form on the sides—and the [...]
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This obviously isn’t a food blog, but the good folks at Go Fast Sports recently dropped off some samples. Since many climbers love their energy drinks, I thought a review would be welcome.
While they mainly distribute in the Rocky Mountain region, Colorado based Go Fast appears to be aggressively expanding. Their main pitch over competing [...]
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Gregory Mountain Products founder, Wayne Gregory, discusses how to fit a pack. In the video, Gregory states “people don’t buy packs to fit their bodies, they buy packs to dump their gear in.” He then proceeds to show the better way of fitting packs.
(via Trailspace)
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Dream in Vertical looks at the Petzl Reverso3 and the Black Diamond C3’s.
The Adventure Blog reviews two books: Clyde Soles’ Training for Peak Performance and Expedition Planning.
Haven’t read enough about Pure? straight outta bedlam reviews Chick Fryberger’s film.
GearFlogger reviews the La Sportiva Olympus Mons mountaineering boots and the PMI 7mm cordellete with Lumi-Line.
The Colorado Mountain [...]
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Mike Libecki writes:
I have a love-hate relationship with gravity, mostly love, of course. Gravity is my friend as well as my foe, mostly friend, of course. Without both the good and bad, negative and positive, a beautiful, healthy relationship is just not possible. Without the possibility of being blown off a huge rock-wall by hurricane-force [...]
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