Go to http://www.alpinist.com/ for word on the closure of this important journal. I also have comments on my <a href="http://mountainsandwater.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.

Chris Sharma sends his project Jumbo Love (5.15b) at Clark Mountain.

SendAustin! interviews Climbing Magazine's Editor in Chief, Matt Samet on the magazine and its circulation.

Dave Graham is traveling and climbing in the United Kingdom stopping first in Raven Tor.

Luke and I went bouldering in Bishop with some friends before Thanksgiving. Check out some photos on our blog.

Cloudveil is having a big end of summer sale, with up to 60% off some of their apparel. Get it before it's gone!

The filming in King Lines was awesome so I'm glad to see the makers are putting out a new flick. Apparently there's plenty of fails in this one - thrilling stuff

Boulder's Daily Camera reports on the issue of stashing bouldering pads in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Video of Beth Rodden and Tommy Caldwell climbing in the Grand Canyon.

A compilation of 10 of the better movies from the Momentum Video Magazine archives.

Steph Davis has a sobering blog entry about a recent accident she had while base jumping in Colorado.

Factory tour (with pictures) of the Sterling rope facility.

cragbaby puts things in perspective on the road.

scotland training guru/hard person Dave MacLeod lays out how to be a sponsored climber

Dougald MacDonald writes about the problems with bouldering comps. He has some interesting observations between lead climbing and bouldering competitions.

Climbingnarc.com has a review of the latest release from Sender Films: The Sharp End

On his blog, Climbing Bum, Traversi writes about his recent bouldering trip to Yosemite. The Ron Kauk classics Midnight Lightning (V8) and Thriller (V10) go down. Sick!

The TwitterClimbers directory is getting a bit more complete... it's still very much in alpha mode. Thanks, @tmarkiewicz and @johnwlittle for all of your help, and please stay tuned for additional updates and features.
New on Rockclimbergirl.com this week, in addition to a whole new look and feel (what do you think?):
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/6kz2ho">Deals, stuff to read, and random thoughts on bouldering</a> where you may just find a few new climber bloggers you'd like to keep tabs on; and
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/58kcse">My ongoing harness shopping saga</a>, with tips on harness buying from me and from readers.

I enjoyed this many-named-post from Kate and Mark, about an Estes day gone awry. Kate and Mark had a plan; they detected some cracks in the plan; and when they ultimately reached full view of their objective, decided to come back another day. I have to say... I've learned as much on days where I've made the same decision as on days where I've pushed it and risked an epic ensuing. Long routes or short routes, I enjoy partners with whom we mutually motivate and push each other... but I am most at ease and have the most fun with partners who have a similar "when to say when" limit as I do.

A look at the classic Climbing magazine covers from the 1990's