This year’s 2007 Adventure Xstream Adventure Race Series DVD is available for purchase at Gravity Play. The DVD has over 1 hour of footage and features each stop on the AXS Race Series circuit as well as a slide show of team photos. It is available for $24.95 and will ship in December.
You can also check it out tomorrow at Noon on the Altitude Sport Network. (DirecTV - Channel 644, Dish Network - Channel 410, or check your cable listings)
A little cave in Rodellar Spain offers some amazing climbing. None that I’d be able to get up on. But if a 5.15 overhanging cave roof is in your reach, then maybe it’s time to check prices on flights to Spain. Here is some footage of Dave Graham putting up some nice moves in the cave as he and others keep breaking new climbing ground there.
We’ve all seen SurvivorMan and Man vs. Wild by now. And we’ve all seen the controversies behind Bear Gryls method. And we’ve all wondered if we could survive out there on our own with only our wits and some McGuyver spare parts to use.
Well I’m going to do it this weekend for the sake of Outdoorzy. I’m sacrificing myself for the sake of a blog post… what a noble cause… I’m heading out with three other Outdoorzy members; Nomad75, ChrisG, and 3leftsmakeapar. Only two of us will be “surviving.” The other two will be documenting the trip and laughing while we eat bugs.
I know you’re all thinking “Man this guy is dumb if he thinks living in the woods for 2 days is “surviving.” Okay then, I’m not actually surviving. More like testing some skills and trying some things out to see what works and to see if I can pull it off. That’s why this is called Survivor”Dude”… because it’s kinda half-baked. Here’s the plan.
Take all our regular gear, and then only use it if we need to
Take 4-5 items each that you would find in the trash
Bring a knife or multi-tool
Spend 24-36 hours in the wilderness, several miles from a road or civilization
Come back without getting some gastro-intestinal funk from eating something dumb
Make a Shelter
Get clean drinking water
Find or catch some food (even just a little)
Build a fire using only natural materials
Build a stove or cook items on the fire that we find
Should be fun. I’ll report back next week and let everyone know how it goes.
As many of you know I climbed Kilimanjaro back in 2005 and it was a huge accomplishment for me. I summited via the Western Breach and the climb was tough, but definitely do-able for anyone in good physical shape and a good backpacking skills and high altitude experience. I saw this over on The Adventure Blog and the Best Hike Blog and it is definitely cool!
The New York Times has created an Interactive Kili Climb by using Tom Bissell’s climb as a resource. Interactive maps and video help you understand what it’s like to get up high on this amazing mountain. If you watch this, look where he dips down into a valley about halfway through the climb. That is where I turned up and the above opening near the summit is the Western Breach.
Yeah whatever, I was busy yesterday. I spent a bunch of time yesterday Blogging on insyde.com about my new gym membership. It’s pretty awesome, lots of chicks doing this and squash courts too.
I was also pretty busy reading The Onion and watching snowboard videos. The ThinkThank guys came from another universe to bless our world with snowboard moves guaranteed to blow mere-mortal knees out… so you should watch them. The first effort from the Stepchild/Nomis/Duo looks pretty good too. And always a crowd favorite the Role Model guys in Breck. They set the bar pretty high with ManStew a few years back and have been killing it ever since. “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to see it again and again. Way better than Cats.”
All this CycloCross talk has got me pretty inspired. So I thought I would add some variations to my already intense indoor training routine.
The Old.
The new!
It won’t be long till we ditch the spandex for Gangsta-Saggin-GoreTex, so after a freezing ass road ride I came home to work on some new “Whips” on my scoot, check the heat. Gotta get Radical with your cross-training whenever you can.
