Gravsports

Ice climbing is far more mental than rock climbing, and I mean that both in the sense of, "It's mental mate!" and that ice cli...

The last two weeks have been higher speed than usual. Travel, prep, closed roads, full chaos, but Tim Emmett and I have n ow been at the He...

Ice Tips: -Carry more "short" ice screws. The standard rack here in the Rockies used to be a batch of 21cm or longer screws. Now t...

Photo to left is of a cool " Plice" (is it a plice if it has ice?) from my bud Tom Comet . And someone needs to tell me how to put...

Bits and pieces An interview I did with Gregor over at Some Good Adventure , ranting and raving. Which I seem to be specializing in lately ...

I recently wrote an article for Climbing about what I feel is the basic sequence for steep ice climbing: Squat, stand, swing. I'm on a ...

A few people emailed to say that my text explanation for how to grip and swing an ice tool wasn't super clear. Here's a fast video s...

I've done a whack of ice climbing and coaching the same in the last two weeks, and it's made me think of a few "small things...

This photo is from a ski tour I did with my dad in about 1977 in the Canadian Rockies (maybe Dolomite Pass?). I'm ten years old. The gea...

I just realized that I've been skiing now for 40 years, a hell of a long time. I sorta even remember my first few sliding steps as a kid...

I'm really psyched to keep receiving photos of the Plywood Ice "Plice" that people are building around the world, really cool!...

First off, specific training rules for performance results as measured by time expended and real-world results. I received the photos of a P...

My ideal training environment has the following in it: Some sort of ice climbing simulator thing (Plice). A place to run around outside. Rin...

I haven't been writing lately because I've been traveling a ton, trying to finish my private pilot's license (maybe by December ...

Some words on shoes...

There are a lot of different kinds of pain, and any sane person tries to avoid most of them. It's human nature to want to be "comfo...

I've had a ton of fun with a personal kayaking resurgence in the past three years, thanks to a good crew of people here in Canmore and e...

The Heptathlon is an eight-sport track and field event. A friend and I were out for some heavy breathing (that sounds more exciting than it ...