Apparently, Teva is sponsoring a contest to become a Teva Life Agent which is a very strange way of saying that they are going to give somebody $10,000 to go have an adventure if they video and write about it. A couple good friends of ours, Aly and Ali have entered this competition and asked us to share their entrance video. Apparently, the more times it gets viewed, the better their chances of winning. We are all about people winning shit, especially when “shit” is $10,000. Scope it and help the girls out. If you’re really so selfish that you can’t be bothered, then think about it this way: at the very least you get to watch a couple hot girls be dorks for 10 minutes…
Climbers are an interesting breed and sometimes they can be hard to understand. But as an armchair scientist, I firmly believe that anything can be explained by a graph. To that end, I spend Independence day plotting mountains of data. Here are the results.
Holy shit! Somehow our website is still here! I thought for sure our domain would have expired and been bought by some site poaching dickwad a long time ago, but luckily for you they haven’t.
For that last six months, we’ve been drunk. That’s why we haven’t posted. Normally though, drunkenness would only encourage our posting but this was a different kind of drunk. It was the kind of drunk where everyone got responsible. Limit and Bronco were working all the time, and I moved off their couch and got a big boy job, and now everything is just sad. We turned into lamer people than we were before which believe me, is a low you don’t ever want to stoop to… it’s terrible. (more…)
In the last few weeks, an enormous controversy about red tagging routes has sprung up. People who have never red tagged, never bolted and never scooped a project suddenly have unbending opinions on the matter. We at P&C, who have spent years doing all three as well as decades in the study of morality and ethics (Kant, Kirkegaard, Derrida, St. Paul, Wittgenstein and Aristotle for the philistines out there) have come up with an unflexible, unbending set of rules about this matter(and pretty much all other controversies in climbing “ethics”).
You're going to need these. And that National Geographic logo will make you feel rad.
Quite often, I have friends tell me about the adventures they are about to go on or have just gotten back from–Yosemite, Patagonia, The Black Canyon, The Bugaboos. This usually succeeds in making me jealous, partly because I wish I could afford these far away magical Valhallas and partly because I wish I had the cojones to actually climb the routes there. Instead of saving my pennies and dimes or cultivating a better lead head, I have learned how to transform my everyday cragging experiences into grand adventures. You see, I believe that adventure is simply a combination of the right state of mind (my guru told me that. Or maybe I read it in Emerson. I can’t remember) and the right amount of suffering. With this kernel of wisdom in mind, I’m about to show you how you too can turn a near roadside crag into your very own Himalayan adventure. (more…)
