ALL ABOUT CLIMBING
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Crazy Shit Climbers Do: Ethanol
Even before COVID hit some of the more experienced climbers knew there was something interesting about high-purity alcohol. Not the kind for drinking, that is, as Homer Simpsons said “The source of and solutions to all problems”. In our case we’re talking ethanol. Pure Isopropyl alcohol above 70% does something more th
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How to use climbing chalk blocks
If you’re going to buy climbing chalk powder this is probably going to be a good option for you. Chalk comes in big bags today but for a long time it used to come in these paper-wrapped square cubes.Chalk blocks simply are blocks of compacted chalk. Chemically all chalk is pretty much the same so what you choose comes
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How To Get Started: Indoor Bouldering
Climbing gyms have been around since the late 1980’s. They started out as indoor training facilities for dedicated outdoor sports climbers but the last decade has seen a rise in popularity among casual climbers. Especially bouldering gyms have seen a resurgence in popularity and today indoor climbing has become a popul
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Crazy Shit Climbers Do: Electrocution
In their never-ending quest to improve friction some climbers have started to electrocute their hands. Iontoporesis is a known treatment for patients suffering from a condition called hyperhidrosis. The disease is characterised by excessive sweating and electrocution treatment under medical supervision helps these peop
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The Ultimate Skincare Kit For Climbers
For the best climbers good skin can make the difference between failure and sending the project but regular climbers benefit from a good skincare routine too. Good skin helps you put in a few more session on a trip or simply live everyday life without trashed finger skin from your indoor bouldering sessions.That’s why
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Crazy Shit Climbers Do: Gradepointing
Gradepointing is an obscure fun little game you can play on outdoor boulders or short climbs. The idea is very simple: you walk around without a guidebook and start picking off routes to climb without looking up the grade before you climb.It’s obviously a more advanced game, especially in areas where you climb on trad
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Don’t Climb On Wet Sandstone
I’m guilty of this myself. For years we’d go to Fontainebleau on rainy weekends and climb on rock that we judged “dry enough”. The problem is, that it really wasn’t. Sandstone takes a day or so to dry after heavy rain and tends to become brittle when wet. At the time we didn’t know any better but now we do.If you climb
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How To Use Liquid Chalk For Climbing
Liquid chalk has a couple of serious benefits over more traditional climbing chalk powder: it’s more performant, lasts longer, acts as a disinfectant, leaves less traces on the rock and creates less dust. It has one major disadvantage: it’s harder to apply mid-route than chalk powder.We recommend everyone at the very l
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Crazy Shit Climbers Do: Benzoin
Benzoin is a resin obtained from the bark of several species of trees in the genus Styrax. It’s also sometimes called Storax and typically harvested from trees in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Sumatra.When dissolved in ethanol alcohol benzoin becomes a tincture that can be applied to the skin to toughen it up &
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How to Make Your Own Liquid Chalk
Liquid chalk is a pretty simple product: it’s just alcohol & magnesium carbonate mixed together. It’s pretty easy to make your own liquid chalk in the kitchen.
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