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- Ice Climbing – Preserve Your Experiences
Ice climbing is a great way to escape the rat race and live on the edge. Alas, your ice climbing experiences can fade with time. The best way to prevent this is to keep a ice climbing journal for your adventures.
Ice Climbing Journals - Rock Climbing – Preserve Your Experiences
Rock climbing is a great way to escape the rat race, live on the edge and get a heck of a view. Alas, your rock climbing experiences can fade with time. The best way to prevent this is to keep a rock climbing journal.
Rock climbing Journals - Kayaking Gifts For Christmas
Finding good Christmas gifts ideas is easy if you think about a persons hobbies. If you are buying for person who enjoys kayaking, here are a few ideas for kayaking gifts.
Kayaking Gifts - Mountain, Ice And Rock Climbing Gift Ideas
Some people just have the urge to climb up and up. If you’re giving gifts to a climber, here are a few mountain, ice and rock climbing gift ideas.
Climbing Gifts - Rock Climbing – Christmas Gift Ideas
We all know someone who’s idea of a good time is hanging off cliffs. If you’re looking for Christmas gift ideas for a rock climbing enthusiast, here’s some unique rock climbing gift ideas.
Rock Climbing Gift Ideas - Rock Climbing Areas In Ky – Kentucky
At first glance, rock climbing in Kentucky may seem like a far fetched idea. Au contraire! Red River Gorge provides great rock climbing areas in KY.
Rock Climbing Areas in KY – Kentucky - Journal – Rock Climbs
Rock climbing is a great way to challenge yourself and get a heck of a view. Alas, your experiences can fade with time. The best way to prevent this is to keep a journal for rock climbs.
Journal – Rock Climbs - Adrenaline Rafting Basics
Rafting down rapids is a good way to get the old ticker clicking over at a high rate. Here is an overview of the basics of rafting down the rapids.
Adrenaline Rafting Basics - Rafting The River Of No Return
Whitewater rafting is simply a blast, pun intended. This brings us to the river of no return, an excellent challenge in Idaho.
Rafting The River of No Return - The Basics Of Rafting The River Rapids
Rafting the river rapids is a major adrenaline rush. If you are going to hit the rapids, you need to know some of the basic language thrown around in the sport.
The Basics of Rafting The River Rapids - A Basic Overview Of Kayaks And Kayaking
Kayaking is growing in popularity. It is a sport with a lot of variations, which are covered below in this article.
A Basic Overview of Kayaks and Kayaking - A Kayak, The Ocean And Oregon – A Perfect Match
Oregon is known for its beautiful, rugged coastline. If you really want to see it from a unique view, grab your kayak.
A Kayak, The Ocean and Oregon – A Perfect Match - Rock Climbing Jargon
If you are looking for an inexpensive extreme sport that is pure adrenaline and addicting, rock climbing may be just what you need. When you start out, you are going to need to know some of the following lingo.
Rock Climbing Jargon - Focus When Rappelling
As you progress in your climbing, you are going to be reaching higher and higher heights. To get down from your successful climb, you are going to have to rappel.
Rappelling is simply the act of lowering yourself back down to earth after blissfully completing a climb. When doing the climb, gravity was you enemy. With rappelling, it is your friend as long as you go about it correctly. Gravity never gives up, so you have to be careful. - Basic Rock Climbing Terminology
If you get the climbing bug, you are entering a unique niche of people. Much like visiting another country, you need to get down some of the lingo being used.
Much like any sport, climbing has its own terminology. Unlike most other sports, the terminology often does not have an obvious meaning. Here are a few terms you should know. - Getting Into Ice Climbing
If you enjoy rock climbing, winters can be problematic since most of your favorite climbs aren’t exactly accessible. Ice climbing may just be the answer to your problem.
If you have experience rock climbing, you may just think it is a hop, skip and jump to being able to handle ice climbing. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, some of the terminology is the same, but the technique is not even close. Your mastery of various finger holds isn’t going to be much help or even relevant. - Ice Climbs Near Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska is the last great wild wilderness of America. It also happens to be a great place to have a go at some ice climbs that will make your legs do the Elvis.
Alaska is one of the few places remaining that you can visit and realize you are pretty insignificant. The state is huge and the human population centers are pretty small. Frankly, it can give you new perspective on life and the planet. - Getting Edgy While Rock Climbing
Most people think rock climbing is a fairly edgy sport just to begin with. In truth, edges mean something entirely different and unique to the sport.
Most people have a misunderstand view of rock climbing from what they see in the movies. You know the movies I am talking about. Ones such as “Cliffhanger” where Sylvester Stallone hangs by his arms and jerks himself to and fro up the mountain for a couple hundred feet. Yeah, I would like to see that! - Tips That Will Help Your Climbing
A few helpful tips are always worth their weight in gold when you start learning something new. While they may not be gold, here are some climbing tips you should consider.
When you first start climbing, there is a tendency to want to just walk up and start pulling yourself up the face of whatever you are climbing. Go ahead. It is natural. Once you are exhausted, it is time to start considering how it should really be done. Here are some tips that might shed some light on the subject. - Understanding River Rapid Classifications
There is something about rapids on a river that make people excited. Oh, yeah. I gotta try that! Before you hop into the river on a kayak, raft, canoe or branch, you need to take a minute to understand river classifications.
Not all whitewater on a river is equal. Some rapids come in the form of minor disturbances that are fun, but not too treacherous. On the other end of the scale, there are the rapids where you are sure death is feet away and it may very well be. So, how do you know if you are going to get a little excitement, a medium level or a meeting with your maker? You just look up the classification of the rapids in front of you or read on. - Kayaking With The Flow
If you are taking up kayaking, you need to become one with the flow. No, I am not talking about Star Wars. I am talking about the motion of the water in your river of choice.
The river giveth and taketh away. The river is going from here to there regardless of what you think or do. Understand how it works and you can paddle all day to your heart’s delight. Fail to understand and you will be exhausted and miserable within 30 minutes. It all has to do with the flow. - A Guide To River Obstructions
As you probably know, most rivers do not just flow unimpeded. There are obstructions that force the water to flow out and around them. These obstructions can be rocks, sandbars, trees and just about anything that can stand up to the force of the water. When kayaking a river, obstructions are your friends.
Obstructions in a river provide you with plenty of opportunities to do things. The first thing you have to deal with is which way to go. There isn’t any correct answer, but you will often see different conditions on either side of the obstruction. Sometimes, you can even hear one side is more aggressive then the other. - Kayaking From One Side Of The River To The Other
There you are standing on the shore. A hundred feet across the river on the other shore sit your buddies. And they have the food and beverages! How do you get across?
Crossing a river with a decent flow can be a bit…err, unpleasant. The basic idea is to get from your side to the other side with the minimum amount of strain and distance going downstream. There are two ways to go about this – the accepted way and my way. - Getting In And Out Of Eddies When Kayaking
If you are just getting into kayaking, you should know that eddies are your friend. No, eddie is not a person. It is a natural rest stop on a river.
An eddie is relatively peaceful area of water in the middle of a current of water. How can this be? Well, you will find eddies behind obstacles in the current. A classic obstacle is your average boulder. As the water flows around the boulder, a slight reverse current is created behind the boulder. This occurs because the water does not immediately come together behind the boulder. Think about it and you will figure it out. - Learning To Kiss The Rock Or Buy A New Kayak
Paddling a river is an immense joy because you get an intimate feel of the power of nature below you in the flowing water. Ah, but what if mother nature throws you a curve?
Kayaking is a multi-tiered sport. There are those that prefer rapids and only rapids. Others like to get out and cruise a river to take in the serenity of nature. If you prefer rapids, rocks are your friends. If you prefer to cruise, rocks can be a problem. This is particularly true if they barely break the water or are just below the surface.
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