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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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Climbing Gear Review Roundup - 5/15/09

by Tom Markiewicz on May 15, 2009

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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Review of Rocky Mountain Highball

by Tom Markiewicz on April 28, 2009

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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Review: Go Fast Sports Energy Drinks

by Tom Markiewicz on April 17, 2009

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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Climbing Gear Review Roundup - 4/6/09

by Tom Markiewicz on April 6, 2009

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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Climbing Gear Review Roundup - 2/25/09

by Tom Markiewicz on February 25, 2009

Following up on my last gear review roundup, here are some more reviews floating around the web:
Jay Young at RockClimbing.com reviews the book An Eye at the Top of the World by Pete Takeda.
Team Geared Up offers up their thoughts on the climbing film The Fanatic Search.
Björn Pohl reviews the Andrea Boldrini Scorpios and recommends [...]

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Review of Pure, a Bouldering Film by Chuck Fryberger

by Tom Markiewicz on February 22, 2009

Friday night I attended the world premier of Pure in Boulder. After watching the trailer and speaking with the filmmaker, Chuck Fryberger, I was highly anticipating Pure. I still had some apprehension though. As more climbing films are released, I’m starting to get the feeling climbers are becoming jaded. How many more ways are there [...]

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Roundup of Recent Climbing Gear Reviews

by Tom Markiewicz on February 4, 2009

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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Better Way to Mark Your Climbing Gear

by Tom Markiewicz on November 14, 2008

The GearFlogger reviews an insanely useful accessory for climbing gear. The Mark epoxy from Boulder Based Designs is
like a condom for your gear: a prophylactic to prevent that expensive piece from walking away, accidentally or otherwise. Just mix the two ingredients and have about a 30 minute working time to apply to gear. 24 hours [...]

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Bouldering Colorado Slideshow with Bob Horan

by Tom Markiewicz on October 3, 2008

Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder hosted a slideshow last night presented by Bob Horan, author of the new and highly controversial guidebook Bouldering Colorado.
Honestly, I was hoping some of the book’s most vocal detractors would show up for an open debate (hopefully more entertaining than the VP debate happening simultaneously), but there was a relatively small [...]

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Review of the Reel Rock Tour Premier

by Tom Markiewicz on September 11, 2008

You know you’re watching a great climbing film when your palms are sweating and you start trying to chalk up. Most of the films presented last night at the Reel Rock Tour gave me that reaction and I was pleasantly surprised. With so many trailers and clips floating around the Internet, I think I started [...]

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Gear Review: Evolv Optimus climbing shoes

by Tom Markiewicz on July 24, 2008

I’ve been looking for a new climbing shoe for a while that was either a velcro or a slipper for mostly quick on/off while bouldering. I currently climb with La Sportiva Miura’s for just about all routes and I absolutely love them. They have the best fit and performance of any climbing show I’ve worn. [...]

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