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I received an email about the 16th Annual International Climber’s Festival in Lander, WY.  Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it but it looks like a cool event to meet some other climbers.  Also, it is under three hours to the Tetons from Lander so you might as well hit some big mountains while [...]

I have seen some pretty nasty things happen during this current credit crisis but this one might be the hardest to deal with.  Alpinist Magazine is going under.  I will miss the great pictures and stories.

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I’ve got a front row seat to the economy blowing up and it is ugly.  The bailout bill that passed last week was supposed to help but the last two days have seen the worst declines in recent memory.  It really hurts.

Even though Congress is screwing the proverbial pooch, I do have to admire the [...]

Normally I cringe at the cliche’d term “corporate citizen” because 99 times out of 99 it is some asshole marketing whiz that thinks recycling beer cans means going green.  But everyonce in a while a company doesn’t proclaim they are the great savior of all things important, they just do it.

I am a big fan [...]

Way to go Mike Haugen!  Mike climbed all 50 state highpoints in under 50 days.  He started with Denali and worked his way across the US and ended in under 50 days at Hawaii’s highpoint.  Rock out dude.  Here is a link to his Coleman sponsored blog.