Here is a nice intro to bouldering article on the Gear Junkie website. There is a photo gallery with the article too.


From the Gear Junkie website.


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Here is a book review article on the book "You Want To Go Where? How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams"


From the Billings Gazette


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In Arizona BMX riders are seeking to get the right to ride at a park built for skateboarders.


From the Arizona Daily Star


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In the last few years there have been two teenage boys that have made a run for breaking the world record for being the youngest to sail around the world. Now there is a 13 year old Dutch girl that's going through the courts and child protection to be able to make a run at breaking the record.


From the Star Tribune


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A motorized paraschute crashlanded into a crowd at a Labor Day festival in Hooper, UT.


From MSNBC Video.

This is a video I found on CNN today about a climbing statue in Colorado. My question is who cares? It's the backside of rock climber made of stone.

Climbing and skiing, climbing and base jumping, climbing and ...., and now climbing and uni-cycling! A father and son make a run, I mean ride for the Colorado Fourteeners.

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This is pretty amazing. I wonder if I could climb one in under 7 hours.

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The Access Fund announced a new campaign on July 23rd -the Access Fund Land Conservation Campaign (AFLCC) which aims to help locally organized climbing groups save threatened climbing areas.


In a press release on the Access Fund website Access Fund Director says, “Over the years, we’ve seen more private climbing areas changing hands, some of them lost to cash-ready developers. Local climbers don’t always have the money or the resources to save these climbing areas. This program was designed to help them,”


The AFLCC will provide short-term financing and support for local organizations that don't have the time to raise funds for time sensitive issues.


So far the Access Fund has reach the halfway point in raising it's goal of $2.5 million according to its website. It's also already provided help for two organizations. The Washington Climbers Coalition received a $15,000 bridge loan to secure an option for the acquisition of the Lower Index Town Wall in Washington and the Southeastern Climbers Coalition recieved $20,000 to help purchase a 29-acre cliff line in Steele, Alabama.

For more information on the campaign visit the AFLCC page on Access Fund website.

Access Fund Land Conservation Campaign Page

Due to an increased number of bicycle and car collisions the city of Bend, OR has created a Road User Safety Task Force to educate drivers and cyclists on road safety and sharing the road. Last year there were more than 60 crashes with injuries in the city which has a population of about 81,000 people. The program focuses on both bicycle and automobile users to educate both groups and reduce accidents and promote safety.




The task force has a program for K - 8th graders called safe trips to school which promotes safe riding practices like wearing helmets and learning the rules of the road.




Sargent Chris Carney of the Bend Police Department said, "We'd like to see more people wearing helmets because we know when we respond to a crash we wouldn't have an injury or a serious injury if the person had been wearing a helmet." He also said that most of the accidents involve adults. "Last year we had a lot of, we felt, high profile bicycle crashes involving bicycles and vehicles mainly with adults and not kids so much."




Kim Curley from Community Outreach Commute Options the organization that brings bicycles and equipment to 4th, 5th and 6th graders to teach them bicycle safety said, "One of our goals with our Safe Trips To school program is to get the pressure put onto the family to make the choices of biking and walking to school safely".






Video from the Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization Page