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Petzl Attache 3D Carabiner Review

Tech Talk / Videos / 2 Comments / Mar 2, 2014 @ 12:17 pm

We stopped by the American Alpine Institute to learn more about their Guides Choice Awards and took some video about why certain gear was award-winning. Generally speaking, the awards are given to gear...


CAMP Blitz Harness Review

Tech Talk / Videos / 0 Comment / Feb 25, 2014 @ 6:54 pm

We stopped by the American Alpine Institute to learn more about their Guides Choice Awards and took some video about why certain gear was award-winning. Generally speaking, the awards are given to gear...


AAI Guides Choice Awards: Explained

Gear Reviews & Stories / Videos / 5 Comments / Feb 25, 2014 @ 6:55 pm

Every company wants to claim their gear is Award Winning. When you see an award winning piece of gear it goes with the assumption that it must be the best. But what does that really mean? The best in it’s...


Climbing Life in Lander, WY

From The Road / 3 Comments / Nov 26, 2013 @ 1:49 am

If I was to make a list of what makes a town awesome it would include: free camping local brewery with food high quality food nearby climbing local coffee shop with wifi outdoor spirit locally owned breakfast...


Starting the Journey in Bellingham

From The Road / WeighMyRack / 0 Comment / Feb 25, 2014 @ 6:56 pm

June meant packing. Actually, it was more like sorting: trash, sell, keep. We were moving out of our 4-bedroom rental house into a 17′ travel trailer. I knew  that moving is time consuming, but found...


A Dash of History: Fay Fuller

Lady Stuff / 0 Comment / Apr 16, 2014 @ 11:21 am

Fay Fuller rocked. Sure, she was the first woman to summit Mt. Rainier, but she didn’t stop there. When she wasn’t publishing her column “Mountain Murmurs” for a Tacoma, WA newspaper, she was working...


Why I Made the Switch

Gear Reviews & Stories / 0 Comment / Apr 7, 2015 @ 10:20 am

Growing up it sometimes felt like my parents ran a recycling center in our house. Even when I thought I was a seasoned 14-year-old, there would still be difficulty in figuring out which of nine bins to discard...


Buying Used Climbing Gear

Academy / 13 Comments / May 25, 2016 @ 8:35 pm

One of the first questions I hear from new climbers is: “can I buy used gear?” (or “where can I buy used climbing gear?”). I had this same question when I started out. With nobody to ask, I bought...


Ways to Mark your Gear

Academy / 4 Comments / Feb 25, 2014 @ 6:58 pm

Recently I gave a gear presentation to a local Alpine Group. In previous gear presentations I’ve often heard the presenter advocate to “Mark your gear, unless you want to loose it!” which I agree...


Unsafe Beginnings

Gear Reviews & Stories / 8 Comments / May 25, 2016 @ 8:31 pm

In college I climbed a bit indoors. After college, my goal was to move somewhere I could climb and explore outdoors. I moved to Seattle, found a house to rent, and started looking for roommates on Craigslist....


Who Makes Climbing Gear? We List all the Climbing Brands.

Tech Talk / WeighMyRack / 73 Comments / Sep 6, 2018 @ 8:33 am

When your job is to find all the gear that exists, and you look at gear all day, you feel like you should just know who all the climbing brands are. Yet, I’m still finding new climbing equipment...


How WeighMyRack Began

From The Road / Gear Reviews & Stories / WeighMyRack / 3 Comments / Nov 25, 2013 @ 10:33 pm

I’m all about stories. It only seems fitting to start with a mini-story of how WeighMyRack started. I’m from backwoods Vermont. Growing up, all family vacations were camping trips; alternating...



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