by Tom Markiewicz on June 27, 2009
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Climbing video of Will Stanhope nearly hitting the second to last hold of Cobra Crack (5.14) in Squamish before popping off. He later went on to make the fifth ascent of the route.
The Cobra Crack 5.14, Will Stanhope from Sonnie [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on May 21, 2009
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.
by Tom Markiewicz on May 14, 2009
I’m not sure how many climbing gyms one town needs, but Boulder is closing in on getting its fourth gym called Movement. For a city with a population of roughly 90,000, this seems like a lot even for Boulder’s high concentration of climbers. Regardless, I’m more than happy to have additional choices.
The Movement gym’s blog [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on May 13, 2009
Brian Solano’s newest film, The Players, is now ready for pre-orders on the web site at 20% off. Below is the trailer and quite frankly it looks amazing.
The Players are the best American athletes of the modern rock-climbing era. Dave Graham, Chris Sharma, Emily Harrington, Daniel Woods, Lisa Rands, Joe Kinder, Alex Puccio, Chris Lindner, [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on May 5, 2009
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 [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on May 4, 2009
Following up on the launch of DPM HDTV a couple weeks ago with two videos, Dead Point Magazine now has five on their site.
The most recent climbing video is Daniel Woods on Wet Dream and Abaddon in Red Rocks, Nevada filmed by Carlo Traversi.
The last two added were James Litz on the first ascent of [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on April 27, 2009
Most climbers absolutely love watching climbing videos on the web and climbing bloggers try to oblige by curating and promoting the best ones we find.
In order to make it even easier to find and watch great climbing videos, All Climbing has partnered with Force5 to create a video channel network on our site.
You can access [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on April 15, 2009
ClimbingNarc reports that Dead Point Magazine released its 4th issue and added a new feature to their site called DPM HDTV.
Currently there’s only two videos on the site, but they’re high quality and quite good. Hopefully Dead Point will continue to post more of these high quality videos on a regular basis.
by Tom Markiewicz on April 7, 2009
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)
by Tom Markiewicz on April 3, 2009
via @andrewhyde and VideoClimb.com
by Tom Markiewicz on March 26, 2009
Back in February, I reviewed the climbing movie Pure. At that film’s premier in Boulder, the audience had the first glimpse of the upcoming film, Rocky Mountain Highball. At the time, I remember being very excited for the premier on April 27. I’m not 100% positive, but this latest trailer seems to be much longer [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on March 23, 2009
In the first part of this series, I questioned whether traditional climbing magazines can still thrive or will we see a faster migration to online only publications?
Peter Beal and Dougald MacDonald both have some interested perspectives on this issue and I’d like to expand further on the topic.
Personally, I still enjoy reading climbing magazines. [...]