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Black Diamond Livewire Quickdraw – Water Stone Outdoors Progression – Climbing Magazine Petzl Reverso 3 belay device, Mountain Hardwear Runout climbing pants, Mammut Infinity 9.5mm rope, Black Diamond C3 cams – The Mountain World La Sportiva Speedsters – straight outta bedlam SuperTopo Guides To Zion and Tuolumne – Climbing Narc Five Ten Team rock shoes [...]
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Stewart Green writes up a mini-guide on how to clean your carabiners (including what not to do).
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Black Diamond’s quality control lab tested autoblock belay device common misuses and provided extensive details. Specifically they looked at: – incorrectly using a standard belay device as an autoblock device – using multiple biners as the “brake bar” in order to make taking in rope easier Regarding the multiple carabiner test, they found that using [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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CNN Money has an interesting article on the business side of the climbing industry. It takes a look at Black Diamond and their founder, Peter Metcalf: Metcalf, who co-founded Black Diamond with a $744,000 investment and has grown it to reap an expected $90 million in sales this year, is readying for his biggest climb [...]
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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 the tests were: [...]
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