Archive | December, 2011
Video Friday – Top 10 Highest Rated & Most Viewed Videos Of 2011

Video Friday – Top 10 Highest Rated & Most Viewed Videos Of 2011

Posted December 30, 2011 at 7:00 am · Comments { 5 } ·

The most popular climbing videos of 2011 based on your votes and your views

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“Let Me List Some Of My Recent Accomplishments”

Posted December 28, 2011 at 6:05 am · Comments { 3 } ·

The then 14-year-old Chris Sharma in a 1996 letter to Prana about a potential sponsorship deal:

By sponsoring me you will be getting tons of free advertisement

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Enzo Oddo Repeats La Rambla Original (5.15a)

Posted December 27, 2011 at 7:45 am · Comments { 13 } ·

16-year-old French phenom Enzo Oddo has climbed yet another 5.15 with his repeat of La Rambla original in Siurana, Spain.  The route was first climbed before Oddo was even born by Alex Huber to a stopping point 3/4 up the wall, and it was subsequently extended by Ramón Julián Puigblanque.  The accepted grade for this route these days seems to be 5.15a, but Rock and Ice has a good recap of this history of the route including Huber’s thoughts on how the grade of this route and many others has been inflated over the years:

“It’s a fact that La Rambla increased in grade from 8c+ (5.14c) to 9a+ (5.15a). Often people believe this is due to the route extension, but in reality the difficulties do not change substantially with this extension.”

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Holiday Tech Tips For Santa

Holiday Tech Tips For Santa

Posted December 24, 2011 at 6:41 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Via the good folks at Petzl come these helpful Holiday Tech TIps that you can leave out for Santa tonight…

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Video Friday – 12/23/2011

Video Friday – 12/23/2011

Posted December 23, 2011 at 6:37 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Another week with some really nice videos being put out there.  Be sure to keep voting for your favorites if you want to seem them make the Video Friday cut.

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Final Update On Mike Lyons Case

Posted December 21, 2011 at 8:08 am · Comments { 13 } ·

Consider this a final update on the most unsavory story of 2011

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News & Notes – 12/20/2011

News & Notes – 12/20/2011

Posted December 20, 2011 at 7:58 am · Comments { 10 } ·

Tell Santa to take the week off…News & Notes is back with this massive dump of news…

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