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Saturday, December 15, 2007

PDFs and Film Festivals

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Whoever invented the PDF file format should be sent to the same sort of hell reserved for whoever took the auto-fill thingamabob off of gas ...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Haffner Mixed

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Haffner is a small canyon near my home. Really small-about 40 feet high, but with at least 20 mixed routes worth doing. I've been hittin...
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Friday, December 07, 2007

MEC pulls Nalgene Bottles

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About a month ago I got rid of my epic collection of hard plastic Nalgene bottles. I'd read enough stories suggesting that they likely w...
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Monday, December 03, 2007

Snow Tires, Slideshows and Subarus

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I've just spent two full days trying to drive from Whistler back home to Canmore. Road conditions have been abysmal--ice, snow, freezing...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Food

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A good friend recently sent me a few links about nutrition for sport. He's all fired up on this idea of counting "blocks" of c...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Kendal Mountain Film Festival

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I'm over at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival, in Northern England. It's about as English as English gets in my mind. We went out fo...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Ice Season is ON!

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It's that time of year again--Ice Season, yeah! I've already hiked to one non-existent climb and retreated off another, big fun. The...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Fearless Planet Shows

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Just received the press release on Fearless Planet, the series I've been working on for the last two plus months. The series was insane ...
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Friday, October 12, 2007

Planes,

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I'm at about 30,000 feet cruising south with a plastic cup of wine, checking out a sunset over the Rockies and en route to Australia. A ...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

Alaska helicopter wash

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Heli Wash I've flown paragliders around helicopters for filming a fair amount over the years, and always thought that flying a paraglide...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Skydiving

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Skydiving has always struck me as a silly sport: Flop out of a plane, fall for a bit, pull the handle. The last sentence combines arrogance,...
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Sunday, September 02, 2007

Morocco

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The last ten days have passed in a blur of travel, filming, climbing, flying and the places and people of Morocco. I'm working on a new ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Mountain Light

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I'm up early this morning to do some work on Europe time and finish some other things that need doing before the day really starts. I...
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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Hawaii

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Hawaii is one of those places I've always meant to visit and never have. Less than 10 hours after finishing up the Canadian Nationals wa...
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Canadian Paragliding Nationals

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We had a really fun event off of Mt. Seven, it brought back meets from yesteryear. Sixty five competitors, six tasks in seven days, and mini...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Squamish

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We loaded up the "outfit" and headed out to Squamish via Golden last week. We're here for the Squamish Mountain Festival, whic...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Situational Awareness

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I just finished teaching an XC clinic with Keith and the Muller Windsports crew, great conditions in Golden (14,000 foot base!), good group,...
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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Hips and Head, Cool Paragliding trip

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I'm on a "common sport themes" kick right now. I'm looking for a sort of unified feild theory for the physical side of spo...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

London

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In one of those, "Can you be here tomorrow" type situations I'm suddenly in London to work for a few days. I'm always a bi...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

Golden Flying

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The flying in Golden has been really, really good. I wrote a little and posted some photos on Gravsports. I also figured out how to make a G...
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