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As walked into the film maker's seminar yesterday I found the way forward blocked by a crush of people along the path. You spend a lot o...

I really enjoy being involved with the Banff Film Festival every year, it's a great collection of talented and creative people in an en...

This elbow is really annoying me. I want to be training full-bore for mixed season, and yet washing my face is painful, and I can't lift...

One of the cool things about mountain sports is not just the climbing or whatever, but the people who are also into them. This was driven ho...

I've started the Rockies Ice Pages again , people are already having at it. I also wrote a "Seasonal Rockies Climbing Guide" f...

Kolin, head of quality assurance over at Black Diamond, just did some more belay loop testing in response to Todd's accident, check this...

There's an good article up here on how Todd lived and died --reportedly he died because his belay loop failed. Apparently the belay loop...

I just heard that Todd Skinner, one of the true masters of rock climbing died yesterday in Yosemite . The Supertopo forum has many anecdote...

Cory Richards and I put together some slides and notes that Arc'teryx has put up on their site, looks nice! I've been getting emails...

Here's the route description and notes, thanks for the kind words in the comments, working this route all fall with Cory was a great tim...

After at least 16 days of work spread over 6 years we finally finished our line right of Balrog on Yam. A big thanks to Raphael Slawinski, w...

I'm in the Pitssburgh airport on the way back from doing a seminar and show at Garrett College, just over the border in Maryland. Garret...

Yesterday Cory I and went up on Yam with the goal of sending the Yam project we've been working all September (day seven this season, 13...

I've been on a binge of rock climbing and training for the last couple of months. As usual, I've re-relearned a few lessons about cl...

The weather is shite here, so Yam is on hold, but going to hike up over it and then hit the climbing gym for a simulated "Yam day....

The every-other day program on Yam is in effect, it's just too much of a physical battle to get up there more than every other day. The ...

Well, after the snow melted out around here Cory and I got back up on Yam for another couple of days of it. On Saturday we cleaned the fifth...

The last day of the HERA event started in the gym again due to the occasional rain squalls and general cold (40 degrees according to a bank ...

I'm down in Salt Lake City to help out with an event for HERA, a group of climbers and friends dedicated to raising money for ovarian ca...

I really like putting up new routes, whether it's rock, ice, mixed or alpine. There's just something fun about heading up into total...