Black Diamond, Inc., the parent company of both Black Diamond and Gregory Packs, reported first quarter results for 2011 on Monday, announcing an increase in sales of 18% to $39.1 million for the quarter ending March 31st. Shares of the companies’ stock surged over 10% this week on the news.

Strong First Quarter For Black Diamond, Inc.
- No Climbers associated with this post
- No Areas associated with this post
New Belay Devices In The Offing
An updated GriGri from Petzl is among the notable new belay devices coming in 2011
- No Climbers associated with this post
- No Areas associated with this post
More On Black Diamond/Gregory Merger
A brief followup on the recent reverse merger of Black Diamond and Gregory into 1 publicly traded company
- No Climbers associated with this post
- No Areas associated with this post
Black Diamond Equipment & Gregory Mountain Products Acquired By Clarus Corp.
Prominent companies in the climbing world Black Diamond Equipment and Gregory Mountain Products have been acquired for a combined $135 million. UPDATED with statements from Black Diamond and Gregory.
- No Climbers associated with this post
- No Areas associated with this post
Industry News: New Athletes Signed By Patagonia, Black Diamond
A couple of interesting new sponsorship signings for Patagonia and Black Diamond

New Black Diamond Website
Black Diamond has a redesigned website that includes a neat journal section featuring stories and reports from BD athletes.
- No Climbers associated with this post
- No Areas associated with this post
-
IanP: Can't wait for this movie. It's going to be real...
-
RT: Narc, you have to come out here for the event and ...
-
Andrew Krueger: I see. I know Hayden Kennedy can lead boldly, ons...
-
Hugo Watt: I have a few times but I'm primarily just a lowly...
-
Andrew Krueger: Do you climb on gear?...
- New Climbing shoes 2011 – Climbing shoes | Climbing Guru » Blog Archive: [...] SportivaBreaking in a New Pair of Climbing S...
-
Hugo Watt: Not necessarily, but there is difference in the su...
-
UBC Pro Tour Heading To The Northwest
May 24, 2012
-
Oz
May 23, 2012
-
“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”
May 23, 2012
-
Bad Girls Club (5.14d) Repeated By Jon Cardwell
May 22, 2012
-
Regular Dude Climbs Just Do It (5.14c)
May 22, 2012
-
What Did You Do This Weekend?
May 21, 2012
-
Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
May 18, 2012
News & Notes
Oz
This incredible photo essay by Keith Ladzinski from his trip to Australia last year with Dave Graham, Nalle Hukkataival and Ian Dory would make a great coffee table book don’t you think? (h/t Josh on twitter for the link).
“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”
The North Face catches up with their athlete Alex Honnold to find out a bit more about his and Tommy Caldwell’s big day in Yosemite, his plans to rope solo the same feat for his segment in the Reel Rock Tour and a casual mention of how he free soloed the West Face of El Cap. As to how the idea for the triple link-up came about:
You do one route and you have a lot of time left in the day and you think, “Oh maybe we should have done two.” And eventually you do two with time left over and you say, “maybe we could do three…” and we did three and we didn’t have any time left over so we said, “we’re over it.”
More detail and pictures from Kelly Cordes on the big day here as well.
Bad Girls Club (5.14d) Repeated By Jon Cardwell
According to his 8a scorecard, Jon Cardwell has repeated Bad Girls Club, a 5.14d in Rifle, CO first done last summer by Matty Hong.





Recent Comments