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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 [...]
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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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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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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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The Cupcake Mafia questions whether you can give back by buying gear.
Between working to set-up the auction and receiving my REI dividend this week I have been thinking a lot about buying gear. As you’ll note from my previous blog, Gear on the Brain, my decision making was based on how much I can get [...]
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I loved their clothing (still have a ragged t-shirt), so it’s exciting news that Ropegun is returning.
Ropegun was created in 1999 by a group of rock climbers that wanted to produce simple, hip clothing geared toward rock climbing. Their creations included skate shorts, board shorts and jeans.Then in 2002, Ropegun was brought to the Bay [...]
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Trango is recalling some #5 Big Bros because approximately 100 of the devices manufactured March through October 2008 have improperly aligned inner tubes.
Through an error in CNC machining, the inner sleeves on these units are rotated slightly to the side. This rotation causes the ends of the unit to be slightly out of parallel. Although [...]
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Months ago, I wrote how I thought it would be beneficial for the entire climbing community to read more gear reviews on the web. I’ve started to see many more since then and it’s a great trend. In the spirit of encouraging even more gear reviews, I decided to compile some of the recent ones [...]
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If you have your own home climbing wall or run a climbing gym, you should definitely take a look at the Climbing Hold Review blog.
I recently stumbled on this site and was impressed by the depth of each review. Each has a video of their hold testing along with suggested uses for your climbing [...]
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Following up on their climbing shoe rubber friction test, Spadout has recently released a belay device friction test. While highly unscientific not rigorous, this is at least a nice starting point for an objective debate over which tube-style belay device is best (they did not test auto-blocking devices). Their overriding view on [...]
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Mark Silliman, founder of Spadout, provided me the following feedback on the climbing shoe rubber study I recently posted:
I wouldn’t have touched the climbing rubber test if I wasn’t willing to get criticized. This is a very hot topic. Obviously tests will always only determine how well products do against that individual test. [...]
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