I was browsing the local gear shop yesterday when I stumbled upon the Metolius FS Mini carabiner for the first time. It is shockingly small, so small in fact, that I think it has lost much of the functionality of a traditional carabiner. fs mini clipping from Climbing House on Vimeo. This realization led to [continue reading]
Author’s note:I’ve temporarily removed this video while I work on a related project, sorry for the inconvenience. This post contains some coarse language, use your discretion. Direct link to video here We got out to Shelf Road last weekend for a chance at climbing the classic $#!+house Traverse. A good time was had by all. [continue reading]
A couple days ago, I looked at the ad content of Dead Point Magazine. Today I checked out a couple other mags- Climbing, and Rock and Ice. Results below… This is the December issue of Climbing Magazine with the ads cut out!
If you’ve sat around the campfire with me, you’ve probably heard The Legend, a “true” story about the harshness of nature & the strength of one man. Below, for posterity, is the written word. *Author’s note: The piece was written with a comic book hero in mind, hence the Machismo. The setting is my favorite [continue reading]
A Jolly Good Time By the end of his undergraduate program, Rusty was anxious to do some climbing. College in Pennsylvania doesn’t allow for much of that. Sure he’d been on summer trips, but aside from that, he had not been able to really summit anything substantial as of late. So when Alex Lowe called [continue reading]
It’s flat, it has no rock, it’s Nebraska. Several years ago while walking my dog at Wilderness Park (Lincoln, Nebraska) I spotted an intriguing crack splitting the center of an old railroad bridge foundation. I was new to climbing but quickly saw the potential of this 20+ foot high finger sized problem. I slotted my [continue reading]
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