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Apparently Eva's wild ride in the sky made the news around the world. I was in the air that day, but choose to go land early. It's a...

I'm in Australia for two big paragliding competitions: The Manilla XC, which is a cross-country style competiton, and then the World Par...

Elbow tendinitis is one of those issues all serious climbers have to deal with sooner or later. I've done battle with it off and on for ...

So I got home yesterday after destroying myself with about 5,000 feet of aerobic purification and celebrated by lounging on the couch with a...

Today I went and "raced" in the Arc'teryx Sunshine 5000, a randonee ski tour race up at Sunshine. I did this race last year, a...

A friend of mine recently dropped me an email asking for some long-distance travel beta, I wrote the following while riding the a.m. coffee ...

Or even if you don't, just a great tale! Nutters. May we all get a day or two like this in our lives.

Well, there's been a change in treatment on the elbow. I had some deep Active Release Therapy done last week and am going in today and F...

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...