by Tom Markiewicz on May 28, 2009
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]