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ClimbingNarc has an injury and recently asked on Twitter for some suggestions on non-climbing activities for climbers. I then re-tweeted this and collected the following interesting responses (after removing the jokes!):

Jefner try #kayaking, it’s great crack.

EDWARDSCHMIDT Fly fishing > equally as compelling once you figure it out

boulderdiaries Snowboarding and that’s about it for me

bdestrempes Lots of biking, swimming and tennis for me

SectioDivina Kayaking, crossfit, breaking, jiu-jitsu.

sudarkoff I am doing yoga (Ashtanga) regardless of whether I can or cannot #climb. And it keeps me healthy and being able to climb!

mmoris when unable to #climb we need to go to work otherwise, snowboarding, hiking, photography, etc.

thepurpleflower yoga, indoor or outdoor cycling

Andif I like to use my mountain bike, I notice the difference on rock overs, I certainly notice if I don’t

trailsdotcom when our fingers are too torn up to climb, we love slacklining and disc golf. Wait, is drinking a physical activity?

lavala No running? I guess yoga, but I prefer running in the off season.

stepan interestingly enough skiing helps me climb

alliebrock mountain biking, power kiting. That’s mine #climb

climbingsponge Go on an off-trail hike that involves scrambling.

sugardayfox I’d vote for swimming (especially free style) as it is a great way to train/flex your antagonists for your back

tcabeen pull-ups, push-ups, core work. That’s all I got.

DivaMissT yoga!

Edmundhilarious Slacklining.

I’d like to add that due to my recent injuries, I’ve found that snowboarding does the trick for me. As a long time skier, I started learning to board this year and the steep learning curve is just what I needed to keep my mind off climbing.

After looking at all these suggestions, what makes a good on-climbing activity for a climber? I think the following sum up the criteria:

• Challenging – combines some of the same mental plus physical challenges as climbing
• Does not use oft-injured body parts from climbing (hands, upper-body)
• Not seasonal (we get injured year round right?)

What do you like to do on rest days or when you’re unable to climb due to an injury?

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As Twitter hits the mainstream, climbers are increasingly using the service to communicate and share. A few months ago, the Rock Climber Girl took the initiative to setup a wiki to keep a list of the growing number of climbers on Twitter.

Unfortunately, manually maintaining a wiki was going to be too much work as Twitter’s growth continues. So I decided to take the idea a step further and create ThinkClimbing.

ThinkClimbing is both a directory of climbers (and everything climbing-related) on Twitter and well as a real-time stream of all the climbing related tweets.

Current Features

• Search for people tweeting about climbing near you. Just enter your location in the search box.
• Weather forecasts. If you use a postal code for your location, the current weather forecast for your area will be displayed above the nearby climbing tweets.
• Directory of climbers and everything climbing related including retailers, manufacturers, media, blogs, sites, gyms, organizations, guides, and climbing schools. If you’re not already in the directory, please get yourself registered by signing up.
• Quickly retweet, view tweets, reply, or direct message from any climbing tweet.

Planned Features

• Search for users by name or location.
• RSS feeds to alert you when new users are added.
• Clean up the design and make everything a bit more shiny and polished.
• Ability to find climbers based on your specific climbing interests and abilities.

Registering on ThinkClimbing

You may wonder why you should bother registering on ThinkClimbing. Here’s are the big reasons:

• Add yourself to the directory of climbers on Twitter. ThinkClimbing doesn’t ask for your Twitter password, just for your username. No worries of us ever spamming or hijacking your account!
• New features are planned that will be using the profile you create on ThinkClimbing. In the future, you’ll be able to add information about your climbing interests and abilities that will help you connect with other climbers.

How does it work?

Using Twitter’s APIs, we pull in any mention of climbing, bouldering, or mountaineering along with a few of the major climbing-related hashtags being used. In addition, our search algorithm tries to remove unrelated discussions.

The image below show how to use the #climb hashtag:

Please let me know your thoughts on the development of ThinkClimbing. There’s a feedback tab on the site, you can leave a comment below, or let us know using the feedback form.

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If you use Twitter, please check the wiki and if you’re not on it, fill out this form and we’ll get you added.

I use Twitter in two different accounts: @tmarkiewicz is my personal account and @climbing is centered on the blog and climbing.

Come join the conversations on Twitter!

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