The Olympics is really struggling with that 20- to 30-year-old demographic. What better way to attract some new viewers to NBC (who’s paying over $1 billion for the TV rights) than eliminating some boring mid-morning sport no one watches and replacing it something radical!? Welcome to the Olympics, rock climbing. Or maybe softball, karate, or [ more... ]

Did you know that there’s something called Outside TV? It’s a channel available in some networks, though I get about 200 channels that I’ve never watched and unfortunately it’s not on mine. Reel Rock was created by Sender Films and Big Up Productions, the same crew that worked on the Reel Rock Tours. They’ll air 9 half-hour episodes, and it seems that most of the footage will be pulled from the tour, so good news if you missed that. As an alternative to trying to find Outside TV in your network, you can also simply buy Reel Rock 7.

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The Olympic Committee finally realized that there are loads of money in skiing and snowboarding slopestyle, and not wanting ESPN to get all the revenue with the X-Games, they’ve decided to include the sports in the upcoming Olympics in Russian. The committee still isn’t sure if sport climbing is marketable enough, but they’ll let us [ more... ]

Students at Cal State Fullerton are promoting alternatives to the traditional Valentine’s Day evening of dinner and…whatever. Lumped in with their suggestions of roller skating, paint balling and horseback riding is, of course, rock climbing. “Rock climbing would be a fun activity for couples. It’s dangerous, exciting and an adrenaline rush,” said Risetter. Sure, plus [ more... ]

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 [ more... ]

Miss the Reel Rock tour when it rolled through your town? Yeah, you and about 7 billion other people. Good news, Reel Rock 2010 is coming out on DVD for $30, or you can download the HD version of the video for $20. Or you can wait for it to become available on Netflix and [ more... ]

Us Weekly, the arbiter of all that is good in the outdoors industry gives Sarah Palin’s new Alaska show 2.5 stars and this review: She goes rock climbing! Teases her kids! Broadcasts for Fox News from a studio in her Wasilla, Alaska, home! Me? I like all those things! Should be a good show.

A Canadian judge is suggesting that a young criminal who led police on a high speed chase through Calgary get into rock climbing or mountain biking. A court-appointed psychiatrist said the young man has a desire for thrill-seeking activities, and he needs to find a fix outside of driving a car on its rims at [ more... ]

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