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 Tech Tips - Trad - Helmet kit
The small space between a helmet’s suspension and outer shell can often accommodate a bare-bones emergency kit.  Tech Tips - Sport - Road Tripping
Get organized. Store staple items such as canned foodstuffs, the stove, a few canisters of gas, and some baby wipes in a heavy-duty rubber bin.  Tech Tips - Alpine - The future is now
Leashless tools can open up many doors and avenues previously unexplored, such as efficient crossovers and hassle free clips.  Tech Tips - Trad - Evading the pump
Before leading out, preview your pitch and note features with promising rest potential. If you have a detailed topo, carefully examine it for corner systems, ledges, slabs, or any sort of stance.  Tech Tips - Aid - A game of inches
Think tall. Sometimes this means using your finger to push that cam just a bit higher, or linking the cables of two nuts together to extend your reach.  Tech Tip - Aid - Flying the flag
A six-hour hanging belay may be boring (OK, really boring), but it doesn’t have to painful. With proper technique and a little caution, you can safely haul your portaledge while it’s open.  Tech Tip - Trad - Discrete tension
Sick of being the weakling and the buffoon? Forget excuses. “Discrete tension,” aka DT, can earn you credit for routes significantly harder than you actually redpoint.  Tech Tip - Alpine - Making a point
There may be no situation more dire than slipping in a whiteout and careening down an icy, 55-degree snow slope, possibly without your axe.  Tech Tip - Sport - Epic insurance
You’re psyched to try The Gift (5.12d) at Red Rocks, but it’s several letter grades beyond your previous hardest redpoint. You’re unsure about pulling the crux moves, and you might have to bail before the anchors.  Tech Tip - Aid - The Alpine Butterfly
A knot that is both easy to undo, and provides the convenience and safety of a separate point of attachment to clip into when passing the knot on free-hanging fixed ropes.  Tech Tip - Trad - Packless and proud
Whether climbing into and out of deep canyons or scaling alpine walls where the approach and descent are far apart, you’ll face extended periods of time when you have to travel with your rope and rack on your back.  Tech Tip - Alpine - For women
I can write my name in the snow. I can pee in a bottle. I can guarantee consistent size and extension in minus-20 degree Fahrenheit weather on Denali, and plus-20 temps on Cotopaxi in Mexico. I am a woman.  Tech Tip - Sport - Leave No Trace
Nothing provokes landholders more than crowded cliffs, over-stuffed parking lots, and dirtbags who shortcut day-use fees. |
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