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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Training and Logging

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Had a wicked session in the gym today (well, yesterday as it's late at night now), and a decent one Wed. Plus I did some solid logging r...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Winter and Weather Change

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The ice season is on around here, but the temps have been really warm. Only the relatively high and north-facing ice (Ranger Creek, Replican...
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Saturday, November 08, 2008

Walking in the woods

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Yesterday I went for an all-time fugly walk in the woods. We went the wrong way repeatedly, mired ourselves deep in the debris of an overgro...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Training, friends, Obama, winter

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Every so often my home gym, the Vsion, has a bouldering comp. All the local climbers rejoice not just because the comp is fun, which it is, ...
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Monday, November 03, 2008

Poland, Travel, Training

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Poland: Leave Calgary at 6:00 p.m., change planes a bunch,  (you know you've spent to much time in airports when you know which lounge t...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Poland

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I'm in Poland, having loads of fun. More later, but some nice photos here. Managing to have a very good time and get some climbing in. O...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Spoga, etc.

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I've had a few emails asking what Spoga is--explained it a few posts ago, but it's what I laughingly call "speed yoga." It...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

First Ice

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On Sunday the venerable (same age as me except for four days so I can use that term) Dr. Slawinski and I actually went ice climbing. Yeah! T...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Training Update October 16th.

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Wed., October 15 (really--I somehow tweaked my dates, fixed now for recent entries...) Savage workout. Limbed some trees, bucked them up, mo...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Training Log: Body Tensions is not about situps!

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First off, a quick rant about body tension. I often watch people with saggy-ass syndrome (poor body tension) do endless situps. This does NO...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Use Fedex, not UPS

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I ship a lot of stuff back and forth to the US and around the world. I've just had the most incredible go-around with UPS, and still don...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Winter is coming: Train.

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Training It's that time of year again when the nights are well below freezing, the snow is sticking up high and the leaves are committin...
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Saturday, October 04, 2008

Strait Up called on account of wind

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For the last 15 years I've flown at least 50 or 60 days a year in western North America, and watched the winds aloft for at least anothe...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Strait Up

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I'm on Vancouver island with a paramotor. The obvious thing to do from here is fly it back over to the mainland, and then maybe on home ...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

New Books from the Senior Gadds

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I don't normally write about my family on here, but it's pretty much unavoidable at the moment. As many readers may know, my dad is ...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Canadian Sport Climbing

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Yesterday I learned a few things about being a sport climber in Canada. That's what I am right now in terms of climbing; I go clip bolts...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Climbing, and "Rules"

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For the first time in 18 months I don't have any serious injuries, and I'm loving it! Yeah, I still hobble a little on my left knee,...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Kootenay Flying

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On Sunday we drove from Chelan, WA to the Nelson area. The sky was perfect the whole way, just insane! I so wanted to get into the air, but ...
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Last Chelan Task

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The last two days of flying have been off the charts fun, just epic! The last day of the Chelan comp was fantastic--a 120K triangle with abs...
Saturday, August 02, 2008

Chelan Ice Caves and Bouldering

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Yesterday was blown out for flying so pilots started searching out other adventures. Mini-golf, mountain biking and "toasting" (Fr...
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