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8th March 2011

Interesting reading

I tend to geek out on gear pretty heavily, especially when there is some evidence to work with. Reading and thinking on gear is, to me, important. I find fewer and fewer systems that work in... Read more »

4th March 2011

A cold winter: Happy Pants and “Layering.”

February was a tough month to be an ice climber in Canmore, especially compared to 2010. In fact, the whole year has seemed colder and nastier than 2010 by a fair amount, especially February... Read more »

21st February 2011

Helmet Fire

A friend of mine calls any situation where the space between your ears stops working a "helmet fire." I love that expression; it's so descriptive of the times when we just stop thinking abo... Read more »

21st February 2011

Aerobic Burn

WG Note--I wrote this a while back, feel it again now, so it's going up:The last week has been high-speed. Articles, coaching, home, life, kid, the backlog of travel-delayed work etc, there ... Read more »

14th February 2011

Helmcken Falls Wrap Up: WI3+ routes etc.

On Saturday EJ and I returned from Helmcken Falls. Tim Emmett had to head out a day early due to slideshow obligations in the UK, but we all had at the climbing there for another few days. T... Read more »

10th February 2011

Back at it today

Helmcken Rematch: Tim walked the 1.5 hours into the top, wrapped in to see if the white stuff was ice, it wasn't, back out with a monster pack, good effort Tim! EJ and I re-rigged the first ... Read more »

8th February 2011

Helmcken Falls Workout

If you have a Plice that you can tilt the following workout is pretty darn fun. All laps start with the heads of your tools 48 inches off the ground or less, butt, one pullup with a lock at ... Read more »

30th January 2011

Mental Tricks

Ice climbing is far more mental than rock climbing, and I mean that both in the sense of, "It's mental mate!" and that ice climbing puts more of a load on the brain. This does not mean ice c... Read more »

26th January 2011

Spray Ice Quick Report

This is going out from the Tim Hortons in Salmon Arm, BC, sorry for the junk show layout and bad grammar but the word was out, and I wanted to post ... Read more »

22nd January 2011