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I tend to geek out on gear pretty heavily, especially when there is some evidence to work with. Reading and thinking on gear is, to me, impo...

February was a tough month to be an ice climber in Canmore, especially compared to 2010. In fact, the whole year has seemed colder and nasti...

A friend of mine calls any situation where the space between your ears stops working a "helmet fire." I love that expression; it...

WG Note--I wrote this a while back, feel it again now, so it's going up: The last week has been high-speed. Articles, coaching, home, li...

On Saturday EJ and I returned from Helmcken Falls. Tim Emmett had to head out a day early due to slideshow obligations in the UK, but we all...

Helmcken Rematch: Tim walked the 1.5 hours into the top, wrapped in to see if the white stuff was ice, it wasn't, back out with a monste...

If you have a Plice that you can tilt the following workout is pretty darn fun. All laps start with the heads of your tools 48 inches off th...

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!...