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I bought the La Sportiva Trango Alp GTX boot when I moved Seattle so that I would have a lightweight boot to climb in the Cascades.  The boot is technically a 3 season alpine climbing boot but I have been seriously impressed so far.  I have not taken the boot out in winter yet but [...]

I stopped by Feathered Friends the other day to check out the store and whatnot and wound up bullshitting with one of the guys that works there for something like an hour and a half.  Being new to Seattle I wanted to get beta on the local crags and what are the classics that I [...]

I just picked up the .4 and now I finally have the complete .3 to 3.  Consider this a family portrait.

Just a heads up, BD C4 Cams are 20% off at REI.  I plan on picking up picking up a number 3 to round out my set. (link to sale)

I’m not sure exactly when it happened but after climbing X number of years I have changed from a gear review consumer to a gear review producer.  The only reason I mention this is because I recently found myself dispensing quite a bit of advice to a few people gearing up and I sort of [...]

A while back I left a top roping rig at the top of my local crag.  It was stupid to forget it up there but it was starting to rain and I thought Ben had grabbed it and Ben thought I had grabbed it.  All in all I lost four lockers and some [...]

This is a follow up to my Rock Climbing Christmas Gifts list.  Even though I am a full grown adult I still love window shopping at REI and making a Christmas wish list.  So here are my top 7 ice climbing Christmas gifts.

Black Diamond Crampon Bag – Crampons are sharp and I once had one [...]

So you want to get the perfect Christmas gift for that special rock climber?  You have to be careful with rock climbing gear because some of it is intensely personal and shouldn’t be bought by anyone but the climber.  Here are 7 surefire hits under the tree

Petzl Reverso 3 Belay Device – I won’t retire [...]

Today the world’s financials markets blew up.  I should know because I had a front row seat.  Tomorrow may be worse but we’ll take it a day at a time.

Coincidentally another major company blew up recently, or more specifically threw in the towel.  Grivel North America is no more. (link) They cited this reason:

Grivel North [...]