Pataclimb is an online guide and scoreboard for climbers heading to the region. A pair of friends, Rolo Garibotti and Doerte Pietron are running the project after ages of climbing in Patagonia, and their goal is to keep a running list of what’s been done and also include just enough information for climbers who want to head down for an adventure.
If this route is approved by the authorities, than Switzerland is a lot cooler than I thought. Two climbers send the dam in Luzzone Blenio Valley. Not a lot of shade to hide in on that route.
via Wend
If you grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and were pretty poor, you probably had a Stormy Kromer hat that your mom forced you to wear every day. And if you’re among the rest of the nation, you likely never had any reason to wear a Kromer. Now these hats popularized by Elmer Fudd have become something of a fashionable item. Cold Splinters rolled up to the Ironwood, Michigan headquarters last week and brought back all these spy photos.
About 200 skiers are trapped on a lift at Sugarloaf while rescuers try to reach them. Not everyone who was riding the lift became trapped, some of them are in the hospital after falling off their chair. At least 6 were taken for treatment. Meanwhile wind gusts are winding up to 50mph and two safety inspectors are on the way to see how much this is going to cost Sugarloaf.
A Maine ski resort was preparing to open a new summertime attraction when they invited a local reporter out to test it. They were hoping for a bit of press featuring their hamster ball ride. They got the press, but not until two years later when the reporter sued them. The resort had convinced the woman to climb into a huge inflatable ball that they would roll down the hill. Unfortunately it went off course, bounced off a post, and then launched into the air injuring her inside of it when she landed. Sounds like a fun ride. I wonder if they’d let me bring a glass of beer inside the ball for the ride down.
I can’t believe Lifetime hasn’t made a movie out of this story yet. Two Wyoming pastors broke out their climbing gear to go after a stranded hound dog stuck on an embankment in the Bighorn Mountains. A group of hikers from Pound, Wisconsin (a real town, and it’s right next to Beaver, Wisconsin) lost track of the dog when they ran into the crime fighting rock climbing pastor duo.
Forget it. Now there’s no way I’ll hike it. Remeasurements of the Appalachian Trail put its total length at 2,181 miles, 1.9 miles longer than people used to think. Now all those people who burned out and quit 1.9 miles from the end of the trail know that it wasn’t their fault.
A 14-year-old girl was in ski school on the bunny hill at Vail when she accidentally ran into a 4-year-old boy. The boy’s father, to say the least, overreacted. He thought his son was seriously hurt and the girl was skiing carelessly, so he popped her in the face. The ski instructor intervened before it could get further out of hand, and the girl was taken to the hospital. The man was charged with child abuse and could face up to two years in prison if convicted.
Thanks Jeff
Some of these residents just can’t get into the holiday spirit. The singers have pretty good voices. Or at least the police seem to think so. I kept waiting for a taser to fly.
