Article on Tandem Base Jumping

With an honorable mention to Steph Davis (who is now re-married, congrats). Peripherally related to our sport, I grant.

http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fde0fc08831cf100d532dc12569e84ae

St. Louis Today.com article features local gyms

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/fitness/new-gym-in-city-willy-wonka-meets-wall-climbing/article_fce93bc2-413b-5979-baa2-87c15b8d2ca9.html

A little local info on our city climbing options. Dr. Chen leads the way...

Thanks to Carine for forwarding the article.

And from "our" local Tucson boy

Of Team Tuesday Climbing fame...

Madness...

Cool blog post from Peter Mortimer about Honnold's request link-up.

And something to make you sh*t your pants...

PETZL ROCKTRIP to CHINA

The film on the Red Rock trip still being in the works, in the meantime, take a moment to watch this. Petzl has come up with one of the most beautiful short "climbing" movie I have seen. I put climbing between quote marks because this goes beyond just climbing. Sit back ad enjoy.

Punks in the Gym - SMITTEN

While I'm thinking about it, here's a great segment on Punks in the Gym, .14a, a Wolfgang Gullich testpiece in Australia first put up in 1985. Pretty cool to see people talking about it 27 years later, and with such... passion. :) We're recently back from Red Rocks and we'll see if some pictures and video surface.

WSJ article on Chouinard - Patagonia Founder/Owner

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577352221465986612.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_second


It's not just the marketplace Chouinard is affecting—it's the workplace. His flex-time policies allow workers to come and go whenever they want—say, when waves are high at the nearby surf point—as long as deadlines are met. There's a yoga room available any time of day (I walked in on the head menswear designer meditating there at around 11 a.m. on a Tuesday.) At the prodding of Chouinard's wife, Malinda, Patagonia was one of the first companies in California to provide on-site, subsidized day care. Even the chief bean counter, COO and CFO Rose Marcario, seems spiritually fulfilled. In previous jobs at other companies, she says, "I might have looked for ways to defer taxes in the Cayman Islands. Here, we are proud to pay our fair share of taxes. It's a different philosophy. My life is more integrated with my work because I'm trying to stay true to the same values in both."