Matador Sports goes behind the scenes of Big Up Productions' new indoor climbing shortNew Indoor Climbing Short Coming From Big Up Productions from ClimbingNarc.com Related posts:Review: Big Up Productions’ Progression DVD Update on Sharma’s Project Interview With Josh Lowell About Progression, Big Up Productions’ Latest Release Reel Rock Film Tour Coming To An Area Near You Video Of Beth & Tommy Caldwell Climbing In The Grand Canyon New Bouldering Gym Coming To Denver Climbing TV read full post

Despite the good weather, we had exactly the same number of cards given back for R4 as we did for R3 - 124. This took the overall number of individual competitors who entered at least one comp over the four rounds to 276 which we found quite staggering. The feedback was great with novices enjoying the comps as well as the experts.The standard of climbing again was very high and the generously softer routes meant 4 ties for 1st placed males in R4 but a clear split in the league. The separate head to head co read full post

It's been a strange winter, but I'm starting to come out from my hibernation. Only it hasn't been hibernation... it's been a strange experience in constant motion for the last few months... very little rest, a very lot of movement, and very little of any of it within as much of my own direction or control as I've become accustomed to. The short version might be, "Shit happens." So, whatever I'd call it, here I am. I'm holed up for a couple of days in soft-water Spokane Valley, WA, in a kinda ok hotel. read full post

Could you be bribed to give up climbing forever? How much would it cost??Putting A Price Tag On Climbing from ClimbingNarc.com Related posts:Putting Climbers First to Create Climbing We Can Believe In Poker Night at Adventure Rock 8a.nu To World [Again]: Just Because We Have A Popular Climbing Site Doesn’t Mean We Know What We Are Talking About Help Choosing A Crashpad What’s with the ads? Climbing Video: Alex Puccio Sending Trice (V12) Somebody Do Me This Favor What’s the Point? read full post

In the event that you can’t get your full ClimbingNarc fix from this site alone I did an interview with SplitterChoss.com that you can check out here. Interviewed By SplitterChoss.com from ClimbingNarc.com Related posts:ODub Interviewed By UKClimbing Climbing Video: Chris Sharma Interviewed At Trento Film Festival Interesting Peter Mortimer Interview FrontRangeBouldering.com Interview Matt Wilder Interview Rock & Ice Interviews Top Climbing Photographers Patagonia’s [...]Interviewed By SplitterChoss read full post

As much as I love being around people - especially friends and family - I consider myself relatively introverted. My good friend Sarah says I'm an introvert with extrovert tendencies, meaning I love being around people and being social, but need a significant amount of alone time, what I affectionately call "Katie Time" to recharge. That being said, I have difficulty figuring out how to handle situations in which I receive attention and encouragement, including big birthday parties....and fund raising effo read full post

Hold maker Nicros has signed Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson and Alex Johnson to their team to help shape holds and develop products for the 2011 Nicros line-up.  Word on the street is that Daniel and Paul will be visiting Minnesota soon to do work both in the shop and out on the boulders.  Stay tuned. Daniel Woods, [...]Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Alex Johnson Sign With Nicros from ClimbingNarc.com Related posts:Alex Honnold & Paul Robinson Interviews Johnson, Woods Win 2009 Mammut Bouldering Champion read full post

The journey to Valencia was a short and pleasant one. At a mere 75 miles, it was a real blink-and-you’d-miss-it kind of a journey. We were well hardened to long drives by this point. We checked into our Best Western and chilled out for a few minutes, before heading out for dinner. Aside from the [...] read full post

I decided to send our progress emails to all who donated to my Summit for Someone climb. But it didn't sem fair to limit it to those people! Here's the first, enjoy!Thanks so much for your incredible generosity and show of support for my Summit for Someone climb! Each of you have done something amazing for me and Big City Mountaineers (BCM). With your help, I'm currently only $245 short of my fund raising goal! I'm so humbled by the support I've received, and can't thank you all enough.I'm planning four up read full post

June 13th was the date that we reviewed some Motavation volumes... they were a new company making wooden volumes. What we said was wrong with the volumes was that they needed to have screw placements cleaned up, having an option of grip paint would have been cool and some other minor points that you can read about here.Just after Xmas a package arrived with three new volumes, volumes that were read full post

NEW REVIEWSome bigger volumes from Motavation are reviewed: hereA QUICK ADVERTISER THANKSClimb It: HereFOLLOW FRANK :)Friend of ours and CHR supporter Francois Lebeau, film maker and all round good guy has gone all Sharma and is climbing in India. You can follow his trip: hereTOUR DE BLOC 7From Escalade Vertical: Opens Qualis / Mens & Womens Finals are: HereNEW STUFFAsanas Boomerangs and Claws read full post

Greg the Cycletherapist will be at TCA on Saturday for the comp so if you need any work done to your bike then bring it down and get it sorted out whilst you climb. If there is anything specific that you need then you can give him a call on 0117 3270079. read full post

We were greeted by another cloudless, California morning when we awoke from a good nights sleep in our modest Super 8 room. It was a fleeting stop over in J-Tree (Benny and I were getting good at these one night stands); we got dressed, packed up our stuff, hauled it into the back of the [...] read full post

Right, sorry about that. Where was I?… We snaked our way down through the desert back roads back into California. The stresses and strains of Nevada now far behind us we rolled into the small and understated town of Joshua Tree. Benny had been here by himself the previous year, and his tails of crazy arrangements [...] read full post

It was a perfect, beautiful Sunday for a hike to the Pinnacle, touted as one of Pennsylvania's greatest vistas. AT thru-hikers have remarked it's one of the prettiest views in the state, and I'm beginning to agree with them! We did the hike as a group this past August, but visibility was so awful from a thunderstorm rolling in that we didn't get to see more then three feet in front of us when we got to the vista. I told other TerraMar guide on the hike with me that I didn't believe there was any vista at a read full post

It's the 4th and final round of our winter bouldering league this Saturday 6th March. We've well over £2000 worth of Ellis Brigham vouchers and prizes (DMM, Beta, Boreal and TCA) to give away with R4 winners, league winners, a head to head comp and a free raffle for all entrants. Ellis Brigham will also be setting up a shop on site for the day and there will be a bar from 2pm serving a selection of botted beers (for over 18's only - you will be asked for ID if you are a fortunately youthful looking c read full post

Dave MacLeod has suceeded on his projet to climb Anubis, his E8 on Ben Nevis, in winter, to give possibly the world's first Xll. Those of us at his TCA lecture were very inspired by the photos and story of his attemps on this project. You can read about Dave's groundbreaking ascent on his blog - www.davemacleod.blogspot.com read full post

Here's the new stuff for March--------------------------------------------------------------Claws and Boomerangs from Asana, more coming soon!!!-------------------------------47 inches of limestone...--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- read full post

The New Year has come and gone, and we`ve been eagerly waiting for new shapes to be poured down at the Project Holds HQ in North Carolina. Well we stripped our wall to film the Climb It video and our box of Project holds came in time with plenty of room to spare on our wall.This pinch set is aptly named Cubes and come in different sizes, from small to the XL variety, which is what we come to read full post

I'm happy to announce that my adventure group, TerraMar Adventures, now has a twitter account! Follow @TerraMarAdv for the most exciting upcoming events, notes from group guides/organizers, and anything else that has to do with playing outside around Philadelphia!This is particularly exciting to me because I blog about events I do with TerraMar all the time, but to my greater readership, I'm not sure I've done the best job of explaining what TerraMar is and what my role is within the group.Essentially, Ter read full post

Since we last spoke I said some things, you said some things we talked, but did we really communicate?I'm now in Las Vegas, the weirdest place in the states. You can drink in the streets, smoke indoors, gamble and get prostitutes all legally. The trip started off a bit rocky. We were supposed to leave Friday after work and drive as far as possible. However my good friend TD called up around 2 in the afternoon and wanted to know if I wanted to come to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics? Well of course read full post

What: 10% of sales at Wildernest Outdoor Store in Port Townsend on February 25th will benefit Big City Mountaineers!What #2: Nepal slideshow and shindig by Sara Lingafelter (that's me!), hosted by Steve and Kerry Sutorius of Wildernest at Jordini's in Port Townsend, starting about 6pm.Where: Wildernest Outdoor Store & Jordinis, 929 Water Street, Port Townsend, WAWhen: February 25th, 2010To RSVP and help spread the word: Here's the Facebook Event for the whole day. The "event" starts at 10am when Wildern read full post

A few months ago I asked Buff if they were interested in letting me review one of their items. They not only said, “Sure!” but in fact sent me three different types of Buffs! They sent me a UV Buff, a Polar Buff, and one of their newest Buffs, a Wool Buff. Let me back up a [...] read full post

Okay maybe I don't have the Olympic spirit. And while the rest of Vancouver swells with Canadian pride I'll be crimping on rocks, but I do have to say this So long and thanks for all the fish!I'm heading down to Las Vegas to check out Red Rocks and while down there I might check out Flagstaff or head to Bishop.As always I'll post pics and witty remarks.So long! read full post

I've been thinking about climbing ethics a lot lately. So I thought I'd throw down a list of some of my main issues and some other ethics that others have mentioned as well.1. The Dab. (To come in contact with the ground or an object outside of the climb itself whether it be a person or tree)Okay with all ethics there seems like there could be some grey area. For me if I'm climbing a problem I haven't done before no dab is allowed. Now if I've climbed the problem before cleanly the dab becomes a bit less s read full post