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Training: The elbow seems to have reached some sort of sticking point; not getting better, not getting worse. I can sort of climb on it if I...

The whole concept of equalizing belay anchors has been discussed heavily lately, both over on rockclimbing.com and also on supertopo.com. I...

I've been doing a fair amount of that lately despite my injured elbow. I can still get out for a quick whack on the icicles, so I'v...

Thanks for the comments and emails on the Religion topic. I'm getting ready for the show tonight plus some other stuff, but wanted to no...

I'm doing a show Thursday (tomorow night) in Calgary as a benefit for the Canadian World Championship Paragliding Team. It's turned ...

A friend sent me some words about Hari from Simone Moro. I saw Simone speak at Banff this year, great show, and his words below put a lot of...

My girlfriend, Kim is down in Ouray judging and teaching clinics, it sounds like it's the usual fun time, wish I were there! Injuries su...

I met the guys doing some human "crash test dummy" testing with ice screws when I was in Ouray last year. They've put together...

Just returned from the Kandersteg Ice Festival, a really fun event in Switzerland. Sean Isaac and I did "Canadian Ice" shows in En...

Modern Travel I’m in Switzerland for the Black Diamond Kandersteg Ice Festival, one of the bigger Euro Festivals and always a good time. It’...

David d. sends the following: Speaking of oddball but interesting stuff, here's a guy with a sense of mission and 'way too much time...

Charlie Fowler and Chris Boskoff went missing about a month ago in China. Their friends helped organize a massive search effort, which event...

I'm heading over to the Kandersteg Ice Festival in Switzerland next week, always a fun event. Black Diamond Europe is giving all the pr...

Albert Leichtfried is a good friend of the Berger family, and is helping to fund raise for them. There is information up on his site about ...

Harald Berger, three-time ice climbing world champion and father-to-be, died while ice bouldering yesterday in Austria. His partner, Kirsten...

Slings keep getting thinner and thinner, to the point where they wouldn't work even for the most optimistic G-String in Vegas. Kolin ove...

In my experience, injuries=monitor time. Here are some of the better, or at least more engaging, sites I've stumbled across: Zefrank . S...

The Arc'teryx Canmore ice festival is in full swing, good fun. Taught a clinic yesterday and climbed, elbow slightly better. Climbing su...

A few people have suggested I start a second career as a "professional questioner of commonly held climbing beliefs." That sounds ...

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...