Via the good folks at Petzl come these helpful Holiday Tech TIps that you can leave out for Santa tonight…
Holiday Tech Tips For Santa
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Petzl GriGri 2 Recall
Potential problems with the break lever lead to a recall of the Petzl GriGri 2
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Review: Petzl GriGri 2
A look at the new GriGri 2 from Petzl
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How To Identify Petzl Counterfeits
To followup on last month’s warning about counterfeit Petzl products, Petzl has produced this handy chart to help you decide if your Petzl gear is genuine or not.
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Warning About Chinese Counterfeits Of Petzl Products
Petzl has a warning on their website about counterfeit versions of some of their popular gear like the Attache carabiner and the Ascension jumar. Not surprisingly these rip-offs do not meet safety standards and should be avoided at all costs.
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New Belay Devices In The Offing
An updated GriGri from Petzl is among the notable new belay devices coming in 2011
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Whipper Night…Unsafely?
With last night being whipper night at team (sorry Tony) the below video that I found at the newly redesigned Splitter Choss Blog seems especially pertinent. The video demonstrates 3 techniques that are used when belaying with a Petzl Gri-Gri. The first 2 methods are good, the 3rd is apparently bad. Last night was the [...]
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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.
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