Climbing in Yves Saint Laurent pants
As much as some outdoor gear might cost, the NY Times found a more expensive option: designer clothes. See the spread in Joshua Tree: Boulder Dash.
April 23, 2006
April 22, 2006
The tallest climbing wall in college
Looks like there’s a climbing festival at the University of Idaho, home of the tallest climbing wall at a college or university (55 feet!). I keep thinking if there was a climbing gym when I was in college, I would have started climbing earlier. Even though there was an outdoors program that included climbing, I just didn’t hear about it. Looks like a nice wall, although from the outside view, it looks like it might be pretty warm when it’s sunny?
April 17, 2006
It Rocks?
The Tucson Citizen writes about bouldering in Gates Pass. They say Boulder crowd attests: Gates Pass rocks! I looked at the drtopo and was a little surprised drtopo’s could be one page. But the article did say it was a good spot for beginners and a good after-work training ground for regular climbs. Thus, you’ll read about places like Gates Pass in your local newspapers vs. Climbing/Rock&Ice.
April 16, 2006
See Red Rocks from your hotel room
View from Red Rock Station
If you’re been to Red Rocks in the past few years, you’ve probably noticed the development moving closer and closer. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that a casino resort is opening near by.
Off the Strip, into the light says the 415 room Red Rock Station will open on Tuesday; 850 rooms will be available by 2007. You could stay in a room with a view of the Red Rock Canyon, rent a cabana, or take a spa-organized rock climbing or mountain biking trip. Room rates look comparable to the rates on the Strip.
April 15, 2006
Polar Bears Ice Climbing…
Here’s a fun cg animated ice climbing video. At first it’s pretty realistic, and then he climbs with power like Sharma.
Look at Camp5
Look for her in the gym
Hmmm, Alley Baggett rock climbs. Here’s a cute safe-for-work photo of her: Alley and John. Warning, any other photo search for her probably will turn up stuff that isn’t. (She’s a former Playboy model, Entertainment tonight correspondent, and has appeared in some music videos.) Can’t believe what some searches turn up. She’s also a speaker for hire and inspired a short-lived (one issue) comic book, Alleycat.
Pinoystyle.net has some more relatively safe photos like this one:
Feelin’ Minnesota
It’s not neccessarily depressing if you’re a climber living in Minnesota. You can still get a great deal of climbing there (or go elsewhere of course.) How one Minnesotan feeds the rat has a fun profile of Mike Farris, a climbing Biology professor and guidebook author.
Risk
Richard Bang writes about risk in his latest NYTimes article: On Nature’s Edge, Risk-Taker Moves Cautiously. If you wonder how climbers manage to make it to climb the 14 world’s highest peaks, it’s probably because they, like Ed Viesturs, ultimately want “to come home” at the end of the trip.
April 8, 2006
Climbing Icebergs
Will Gadd writes in the New York Times about climbing icebergs in
Why’d He Climb to the Top? They Told Him Not To. Couple things from the article: climbing them is a really bad idea and the water from icebergs is good for water, vodka, and beer.
See the National Geographic video of him climbing an iceberg. There are a few South Park touches.
