The Outdoor Retailer (OR) show is kind of a weird thing, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. The basic concept is this: you have buyers, and sellers, and they all want to meet each other and do commerce. The sellers are trying to get their products sold for the year, the buyers are trying to fill their shops.
Read moreThanks a lot to Ryan Kramer for drawing up Fringe’s Folly’s very first political cartoon… Can anyone think of a clever caption?
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There is a brief moment in a free fall, right when you see and understand what is happening, when, in retrospect – in the endless replay of the event that breaks you out in a sweat months later, it seems like you should have been able to do something. Leap spider-man-like back onto the rock; grab a cam off your harness and shove
Read moreAround 9 o’clock PM, sunday night, I was gushing to my girlfriend about the Dawn Wall Project, and how cool Tommy and Kevin are. I was showing her the various footage, photos, and writeups, mostly focusing on Andrew Bisharat’s awesome awesome coverage here. She is not a “climber”, insofar as she does not generally follow or pay attention to all the
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So, the Dawn Wall project is obviously the coolest, most groundbreaking, awe-inspiring, mind-blowing thing in the climbing world right now. Tommy Caldwell is a freaking animal, and as hard a worker as you can find in the pantheon of professional climbers. And as far as I can tell, Kevin Jorgeson went straight from top-notch boulderer to world-class runout vertical granite
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