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→ Give The Gift Of Access∞

Posted December 1, 2014 at 10:15 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Word on the street is that now is a big time of year for buying things, so if we’re all going to be buying things why not give the gift of Access this holiday season?

The Access Fund has their annual Holiday Pack for sale right now which comes with a slew of great schwag1, or you could  just go for the $35 annual membership which comes with, you know, the gift of access.

  1.  The T-shirt with the Fred Nicole painting on it is pretty cool ↩
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→ Revolution & Pusher Closing Up Shop In The U.S.∞

Posted November 12, 2014 at 10:39 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Unfortunate news from The Cordless Group, parent company of Revolution pads and Pusher holds:

To keep this company going, I am facing a hard reality; make huge financial investments into the company and make big ethical compromises. But I am not able to do either of those things right now.
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That’s how it goes.

On December 19th, 2014, The Cordless Group (Pusher and Revolution) in North America will be closing shop indefinitely. We will still continue producing and selling our holds from our manufacturing spot in Germany and ship them anywhere in the world.

Lots of good history in that post about the backstory of Cordless, Pusher and Revolution.
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My formative years in climbing were spent climbing indoors on those classic Pusher shapes and bouldering outside over those classic Cordless pads.  They will definitely be missed.
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→ How to Carry A Crashpad∞

Posted November 11, 2014 at 9:06 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

My hands down favorite is The Sled.  Can’t wait for sledding season to start…

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→ Dave Pegg, Prominent Climber And Guidebook Publisher Is Gone∞

Posted November 10, 2014 at 1:25 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

DPM‘s Mikey Williams, writing about the passing of Dave Pegg:

Dave founded Wolverine Publishing in the early 2000s and quickly changed the landscape of climbing guidebooks forever. His first major publication was a collaborative effort with author Ray Ellington on a guidebook to the Red River Gorge. It had all the elements we now expect from a quality guide: full color action shots, essays written by prominent locals, digital images of the cliff face with the topo lines drawn in, and thorough, entertaining route descriptions.
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Over the last decade, Wolverine Publishing seized the reins as the leader in quality guidebooks releasing dozens of books to America’s most popular climbing areas like Smith Rock, Rifle, Maple Canyon, Bishop, Hueco, and the New River Gorge.
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→ Dave Pegg∞

Posted November 10, 2014 at 9:08 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Sad news from Rock & Ice about the passing of prolific route developer and guidebook publisher Dave Pegg:

To say that Dave was a serious climber is an understatement. Rifle, and then Main Elk Canyon, were his loves, and he was one of those people you could find on the rock, in any weather, just about every day. Dave was perpetually eager, always beaming about a project or near send even when his knees and shins were bloodied and scabbed—I never saw them any other way—from working kneebars.

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→ “A True Midwestern Climber”∞

Posted November 6, 2014 at 10:56 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Alex Honnold, writing about his record-setting experience at the 2014 edition of 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell:

By the end of the day our skin was wrecked and our bodies hurt, but we’d done a ton of amazing climbing. I did something like 150 pitches, averaging around 5.11c, which was good enough to retake the individual point record, which now stands at 43,490.

…snip…

It was impressive that people who’d been up climbing for 24 hours straight could find the energy to party so hard. I certainly couldn’t — I went to bed early, which I guess just means I don’t have what it takes to be a true Midwestern climber.

I think I can speak for the entire Midwest here when I say that we would be OK with adopting Alex into the Midwest climbing club.  I mean, the guy does have some skills even if they don’t involve partying all night after climbing for 24 hours straight.

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→ The Transient Power Of Travel∞

Posted November 5, 2014 at 8:57 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Justin Roth, writing on The Stone Mind after returning from the final leg of this year’s Petzl Roc Trip:

Often, the flashiness of the itinerant lifestyle is held up as the antidote to our modern malaise, our workaday routine that keeps us moving predictably, as if on rails. I tend to think that the best we can do is to seek a balance between motion and stasis, to move when it’s time to move and also to stay put when it makes sense, letting the contrast of the one enhance and inform the other.
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