What’s In A Grade?

Anyone who follows climbing news has been getting bombarded with news out of the Red River Gorge this fall. It’s not surprising given the calibre of climbers that are out there; Ashima Shirashi, Melissa LaNeve, Chelsea Rude, Adam Ondra, Jon Cardwell, Daniel Woods, Cedric Lachat, Nick Duttle… the list goes on and on. What I [...]

The Move

Moving sucks, it always has and always will. This past weekend I had an ambitious plan to fly up to Kelowna, get a U-Haul, pack it up, drive to Vancouver then down to Vegas. I hoped that while in Vancouver I’d be able to get some socializing in since I had not been there in [...]

Search Terms

Every so often I look at the data and stats logs of my website. One of the things I like to look at is which terms people type into search engines that then lead them to my site. Most of them are pretty standard. Searches for ‘Climbing Photos’, ‘Rock Climbing Training’, or ‘Mike Doyle Surfing’. [...]

Climbing Grades

I’m about to open up a whole can of worms here… actually discussing climbing grades. Most people treat climbing grades like politics or religion, topics best not talked about in public and only amongst a close group of friends. I however have a different opinion (surprise, surprise). I think grades should be talked about and [...]

Sensoring The Children…

So I just got back from watching “The Watchmen” movie, not a very good movie but I enjoyed “Sin City” and heard it was the same director. Anyways the movie is pretty gory with a few sex scenes but the gore was definitely more disturbing than the sex scenes, at least to me but apparently [...]