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The following is a list of highly recommended climbing books: Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance How to Rock Climb: Better Bouldering (How To Climb Series) How to Rock Climb!, 4th edition (How To Climb Series)
I just received this information from The Mountaineer: The Mountaineer is hosting the first annual Great Adirondack Trail Run on June 25th. The run is a benefit event for the Ausable & Bouquet River Associations and is sponsored by Patagonia as part of their Environmental Benefits Program. Secondary sponsors include Salomon, Smartwool, Montrail, Honey Stinger […]
The bible of climbing and mountaineering instructional literature is Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills published by The Mountaineers. I’ve read and studied that book cover to cover numerous times and now the experts from The Mountaineers have put out some guidelines for wilderness survival. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a useful article on the ten […]
You may have noticed that the site is slightly different the past two days. Two major changes have occurred. First, using Movable Type as the publishing software was just simply not working. There are many aspects of MT that I like, but there were too many errors occurring and numerous maintenance issues I had to […]
Blogs and Individual Sites Climbing Narcissist The Climbing Wired Nut the diary of a [newbie] rock climber Shady Goings On Jack Roberts Mack Muir TopRope.com Will Gadd Glacial Erratics Gritstone & Chips Greg’s Climbing Blog John Gill Climbing Areas Chamonix Valley Climbing Climb PA Climbing Boulder Climbing Joshua Tree New England Climbs SmithRock.com Rock Climbing […]
All Climbing is a blog focusing on all aspects of climbing. I enjoy writing about my observations on climbing news, events, and personal trips I make throughout the year. My personal blog can be found at http://www.tmarkiewicz.com Google Map of areas I’ve climbed
Backpacking Light has a review of the Princeton Tec Aurora headlamp. As I learned the hard way at Seneca Rocks, West Virginia many years ago, always keep a headlamp in your pack…
Tom Moyer has a great web site called Tom Moyer’s Testing Page (what else?) that covers a full range of testing performed on climbing and rescue gear. Included are rescue rigger force calculations, highline drop-testing, comparative testing of high strength cord, and euro death-knot (aka flat overhand) testing. He has a variety of videos, papers, […]
Originally posted on Epinions several years ago (2000), I thought I would re-post my review of the La Sportiva Mythos climbing shoes as the original review became obscured in Epinions categories. La Sportiva Mythos Climbing Shoes Pros: Comfortable, multi-purpose, sensitive Cons: Laces are hard to replace Full Review: The multi-purpose La Sportiva Mythos is by […]