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Jim Ewing is a bud of mine and the head rope guru over at Sterling. We've been emailing back and forth about single-rope impact forces v...

It's no secret to regular readers of this blog (and thanks to those who have sent in comments on elbows, ropes and falling!) that I real...

This discussion on falling distances with respect to clipping position is down there somewhere in the comments column, thought I'd post ...

Anchors: Cordelette, Sliding X, or? A brief history of anchor building (with lots left out...) When I started seriously climbing in the ear...

The ice season is in full swing here--it's been a bit of an odd November so far, very warm days (+8 Canadian here today, that's abou...

I've been working on a new slideshow for the Whyte Museum , "20 years of icicles." Originally I had planned to mainly do the r...

I've spent the last couple of Februarys in Norway, home of big ice and crazy potential. I really like the Norwegian vibe and the endless...

The posts on clipping and falling distances have generated a lot of email. Some graph paper will help in working the various clipping situat...

Finally back at home after the film festival and participating in the film maker's seminar. The festival went really well, good fun, and...

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...