Gravsports

I've been paddling and climbing more than normally with youth of late. I've also been watching videos, reading blogs, and somehow ...

I went to Dave Thomson's memorial last night. I was surprised as I looked around the room at how diverse the people in attendance were; ...

Dougald is a friend of mine who also knew Craig . Nice piece of writing on a subject very much on the mind of myself and some friends.

Women use a lot of nice words to describe my friend Greg's physique. Check out the picture I stole from his blog--he's built. I susp...

I can't remember when I first met Craig. Maybe while working at Rock & Ice back in the day, maybe in Eldo Canyon, maybe in Canada. B...

I've done a fair amount of running, riding and messing about in New York City's central park. But I've been worried about gettin...

Alaska in the summer is fun--back home now, still thinking about the super long days, glaciers, icebergs, rivers and all the other stuff I s...

I'm off to Alaska for a week of climbing, kayaking, paragliding and filming the same for a TV program. Stoked for that, I've never b...

Thanks for all the comments, real opinions and historical smack-talk on the last post--yeah, I remember the Wave Sports days and Chan well. ...

So I need a new kayak. Back in the day (15 years ago) I was a sponsored paddler (which meant free to cheap boats and free beers from Chan, g...

So I just did a new-format interview. .. Kinda cool.

Dropping into the unknown One of the things I really like doing in life is on-sighting, a climber's term used to describe a climb where ...

I'm up in Jasper for a few days. I used to live here, and learned to paddle, climb, cave and generally get amongst it in the mountains o...

So much fun! Thanks to Becky, Shane and Jeff for a super fun run and taking these pics. Yesterday was a quick evening session on the Kanbezi...

Water is the best invention ever. We really, really need it. Pure, fresh, water. But it's not a given. I always start thinking about wat...

Yeah, I know I said wheels are the best invention ever a couple of weeks ago, and they are great, but kayaks are the real dream machines. I ...

I'm now on the Kayaking rehab program. This is what I do when I get injured--go kayaking. It's the first sport I truly discovered on...

It's finally warm again here in Canmore. Yesterday was a perfect day, one of those days with blue skies, little fluffy clouds, yeah! I e...

Sometime in the last few weeks Johnny Copp died in an avalanche in China, likely along with Micah Dash and Wade Johnson. Johnny had spent so...

Booty, and not the junk in the trunk kind. I spent a lot of my early climbing years on a continual quest for "booty" of all kinds ...