Join us on November 3rd, 2010 for a day of enhancing your understanding of risk management in the outdoor and adventure education fields at this year’s International AEE Conference in Las Vegas. This pre-conference will provide you with the opportunity to create/tweak your current risk management system, discuss best practices and learn from some experts [...]
I went for a rode ride today. I had not been out since last week and I’ll be too busy this weekend to workout. I rode from my house and did the 30 mile loop. I felt good and was able to keep the chain in the big ring for most of the way. I [...]
Today I enjoyed a fantastic day climbing with some friends. Ken Pitts came up for a vacation with the family with the idea of doing some crack climbing and working on harder routes. Shawn and Kristen from DC came and joined in the fun. Ken wanted to climb in the PMRP at Chico Bonita. He [...]
Tower Rock
The family wanted to climb today and I wanted to climb some cracks, so we headed to Tower Rock. Tower Rock is one of two freestanding pinnacles in the Red and is home to some of the best moderate crack climbs. There is also a perfect boulder for the kids to climb on.
Shawn had [...]
Yesterday Ken and I had the privilege of climbing with a group of kids from Wilmington NC. They were out on an eight day trip. This was the first time these kids had every done something like this. Despite the smells , bug bites and being outdoors for 7 days, these kids were having a [...]
Training for climbing August 18th 2010
Trained early this morning for climbing by doing an upper body workout. I warmed up with 5 minutes of rowing on the cocept 2 rower.
climbing intervals
set one
Jugs 4x :40 climbing with 1:30 rest
Set Two
Crack 4x :40 climbing with 1:30 rest
Set Three
System Board with 3 sec hesitations
4x :40 climbing with 1:30 [...]
I had the fortune of teaching an SPI course at Pilot Rock with a great group of people this past weekend. I arrived the day before and set camp. After scouting the area I headed back to camp and endured a blistering night out. The temperature was quited hot and did not cool off until [...]
Ken and I had a real adventure out climbing at Shortoff Mountain. The hike in there goes through a burned area and is exposed to sun shine and heat. We drank a lot and still did not have enough water. The climbing was interesting as we did Lost and Found. It was covered in green [...]
There was a major rock fall at the south face of looking glass last Saturday. This was a naturally occurring rock fall that came down the rappel line of First return. Several small trees were damaged as the rock struck near the bottom of the face and broke into smaller pieces. There was one unconfirmed [...]
It rain today and I was planning on riding to the parkway again. I did a combination workout. I rode the bike on the mag trainer for 32 minutes pushing a tempo pace. I then rowed on the C2 rower for 30 minute @ 2:24 pace logging 6300meters. This was a good combination cardio workout [...]
