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Making Muir Valley

Posted March 20, 2013 at 12:44 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Nice piece by Outside Online profling Liz and Rick Weber, owners of Muir Valley in the Red River Gorge:

With over 30,000 visitors last year, Muir Valley has become the most popular climbing destination in the eastern half of the country. For eight years, Rick and Liz Weber have shouldered the property and developmental expenses as their gift to the climbing community.
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But, now in their late 60s and facing declining health, the future of the valley is unclear.
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If you’ve climbed in the Red River Gorge in the past 10 years the odds are pretty good you’ve climbed on the Weber’s property.
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 The odds are also pretty good that you’ve climbed on their property at zero expense to yourself, so consider making a donation to Friends of Muir Valley if you want to see climbing continue on this incredible property into the future.

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Rock & Rave

Posted February 28, 2013 at 8:42 am · Comments { 3 } ·

DPM was in Atlanta over the weekend for the highly successful Rock & Rave fundraiser held at Stone Summit.  With the help of celebrities like Chris Sharma, Kurt Smith and Hans Florine, about $36,000 was raised for the Access Fund, the Southeastern Climbers Coalition and the Carolina Climbers’ Coalition.

Idea for next year:  put the ABS Nationals broadcast up during the event and have people bid money on how many times things like “Asana moment” or “she’s got blank for days” or “that climber is brave and humble” are said.

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Chipping Caught On Film In New York

Posted February 20, 2013 at 5:05 pm · Comments { 71 } ·

I guess when Ivan Greene says on his Edelrid athlete page1 that his occupation is being a “rock climber and artist” he really meant it.  With an emphasis on the artist part.
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Back story on the video is here.

Sick, and not in a cool way.

Update – Statement from Edelrid:

We would like to state unequivocally that EDELRID does not support the practice of chipping. It is our belief that the challenge, and the pleasure of climbing, lies in rock formations, as they occur naturally.

With this in mind we can state that we find the recent behaviour of Ivan Greene to be completely unacceptable, and we would like to take this opportunity to clarify that he is no longer an EDELRID sponsored athlete, and in actuality has not been supported by the brand for over 12 months.
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We will be removing all references to Ivan Greene from the EDELRID website with immediate effect.

  1.  Why Edelrid would sponsor him in the first place is beyond me ↩
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2012 Access Fund Sharp End Awards

Posted February 12, 2013 at 1:30 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Congratulations and a big thanks to all the winners of the Access Fund’s Sharp End awards for 2012.

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Climber Talks

Climber Talks

Posted December 18, 2012 at 6:54 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Talks about climbing and climbing access from Kevin Jorgeson and Brady Robinson

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The Secret is Out: Jailhouse Open Access

Posted December 3, 2012 at 11:37 am · Comments { 1 } ·
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The Access Fund’s Existential Crisis

Posted November 29, 2012 at 8:10 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Dan Nordstrom, Outdoor Research CEO and former Access Fund Board President, writing about the “existential crisis” the Access Fund faced in 2007:

Climbers had come to rely on the Access Fund to be there when a climbing area was threatened with any kind of closure. Whether the access restriction was related to raptors or real estate developers, climbers assumed the Access Fund would take on the bad guys when they came knocking.
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But what most climbers didn’t know was that there was no “fund,” despite our name.

The ultimate result of this crisis was the creation of the Access Fund’s Land Conservation Campaign which has been a resounding success raising over .
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6 million and already aiding in multiple crag purchase situations.

The Access Fund relies on our support for this type of initiative, so if you’re not already a member or you let your membership lapse like I did1, now is a great time to show your support.  And if you’re looking to give the climber in your life a great gift, the Access Fund once again has great holiday packages on sale that include an Access Fund membership in addition to some sweet schwag.

  1.  Embarrassing, I know ↩
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