Sharpen Up!
The early season climbing has been good so far, but as always there are places where the ice is thin. Normally we can see these and tread lightly, but if you’ve been climbing long enough, eventually you’ll feel that unmistakable sensation of the “doink!” where your ice ax goes through the thin ice and strikes the underlying rock. Let’s go over some tips for how to sharpen your ice tools and keep them at peak performance.
How to Ice climb efficiently
Learn and improve fundamental ice climbing techniques so you can be a confident ice climber and avoid pumping out as the routes gets steeper.
How to make tape gloves for crack climbing: A Step-By-Step tutorial
Interested in crack climbing? Learn how to protect your skin and make durable tape gloves for crack climbing and check out a comparison of manufactured crack gloves.
Strategies for Climbing In the Black Canyon
Colorado’s world famous Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park (aka The Black) is known for its outstanding natural beauty and concentration of wonderfully challenging multi-pitch traditional rock climbs. Perhaps the most well known of these is the aptly named Scenic Cruise, included in Steck and Roper’s “Fifty Classic Climbs of North America”. Learn strategies for climbing the classic Scenic Cruise and other routes in the Black Canyon…
