Ice climbing on a multi pitch route opens an entirely new world. You get to places where you other vice wouldn’t, but you also need a lot more knowledge to make such climb safe and efficient. One of most important things on a multi pitch route is the belay stations between the pitches. One needs [...]
I’m writing an article about belay stations on multi pitch climbs (will be released soon, once I’ll get the images taken). While writing it I realized that my autonomous ability, if there ever was some, to create a clove hitch was gone. Especially what comes my left hand, the clove hitch was simply lost. While [...]
Picture above: One of the tower featurs by Mika Narinen. It seems that this year our ice climbing tower project is finally in a good shape. I took my first few lines a few days ago. The accumulation of ice has been good. It seems that we might even, atleast in principle, get the tower [...]
There was recently a discussion at www.rockclimbing.com about how to do a balanced V-thread (you can see the discussion here). As one of the speculated methods was a long prusik cord combined with a sliding x -type of setup I decided to test it out. The test results can be summarized as a success. I found it [...]
It’s been my pleasure to be able to spend quite a few days climbing during last few weeks; six altogether. That’s two trips, three days each. That’s much more than last your at the same time. So it actually seems that I might be able to rise my grade during this season. At both of these trips, we climbed [...]
The season has started and the Christmas is closing, but what kind of wish list should be posted to Father Christmas? Here are a few hints. I found most of this stuff from our upcoming www.tribevine.com service, which actually proved to provide quite interesting details, especially on when it comes to alternatives and gear that’s used [...]
A medical student Kathrin Lampl asked me to help her on finding ice climbers for her diploma thesis. She’s conducting a study which tries to map out the typical injury patterns and map out the ways to make ice climbing safer. She asked me to post the following message: — cut here — Hey climbers! My [...]
It’s snowing, finally the long waited winter seems to be at reach. Just a few weeks, but the end of November at latest, and there’s enough good ice for climbing at Korouoma, Finland. It’s going to be exciting winter, there will be of course plenty of climbing at Korouoma and the usual trip to northern [...]
Though the sesons isn’t starting quite yet I thought to list out few web stores I’ve used to stack up with the climbing and mountaineering gear. Actually the idea for this article came through my friend who tried to figure where he could purchase a pair of good ice climbing gloves. As you can see [...]
What does an ice climber do during the summer? An obvious answer would be rock climbing, but in this case we spent the day fixing our ice climbing tower for the next season. Besides I don’t climb rock that much anyways. The weather was nice, as was the company and we got most of the [...]
