
Climbing-related Sites

Homepages
&
Clubpages

This is the stuff that the Internet should be made up of, or say atleast 99.99% of it!!!
(Now Alphabetized! yeeee-haww.)
- Martyn Arnold's Climbing etc Homepage. I stumbled upon this Dorset, U.K. climber's pages some time ago... I appreciated his self-depricating style of writing, and felt quite a similarity. He has several other interests which can be linked to here. In fact, he has so many other interests that climbing is just one very small part of his life that he writes about! Says Martyn in a recent correspondence:" Actually had hatemail because of some jokes I posted, but what the heck! So long as I'm not ignored!" That's the spirit!
- The Alpine Zone. This is a Norwegian climber's homepage! Go on, expand your horizons: Rolf Bilberg is youthful, communicative... so check it out. He recently sent me his new URL, and reminded me that Time marches on: "I'm not seventeen anymore." You can read it in Norwegian or in English...
- Australian Crags, Canyons & Caves. I became acquainted with one of the other climbers on the rec.climbing newsgroup, who also happens to be on these pages, which are authored by Peter Monk,(featured climber Andrew D. has lent me a huge volume of knowledge with reference to fixed anchors and the like). Look at these pages. Maybe you will want to go to Australia, even if the author now lives in the U.S.!!
- George Bell's Home Page. You have got to look at George's Pages. He's alot like Tuan, in that the pictures alone will put you in another world. May be a slight problem getting there because of the Yahoo Merger...
- Campy's Trail Projects. While this site used to be dedicated to Teaching HTML, it is now about the great trails in this nation (the Pacific Crest Trail, etc.) and about trail maintenance folks. See what happens when you get older? You diversify your interests! (Nice site by Campy)
- Climbing Older is Stacy Bender's website about local climbing and mountaineering. He is spare on the BS (unlike me!) and heavy on the pictures. Frequently updated.
- Fremont Canyon Dot Com is a helpful site authored by the locals in Casper, Wyoming, updated frequently by webmaster Kevin Siebke. Although it is not meant to replace the available guidebook by Steve Petro, nor a hopefully soon-to-be-published edition by the late Pat Parmenter and some of his surviving partners, it is nevertheless a good site to peruse before you visit.
- Harter-Climbing: climber Lon Harter's Site:. Trend for alot of people entering climbing, especially mountaineering, is to hook up with an adventure guide who can take you to the depths of Hell, then get you back to a hot jacuzzi and a good cask of wine. Not bad! The more my knees creak, the more sense it makes to me to savor those rest days! Have a look...
- Intermountain Ice Project: Will McCarthy's homepage-cum-info service about ice climbing areas in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Basically an overview, like Tim Tuola's Rock & Road. You're supposed to contribute something to Will's site, like more info. I guess this will wind up being a seasonal site, eh? It's a good reference point before you run out and buy a guide book...
- The Mountain Goat 14K: Chris Long's Pages. Another set of well-designed pages with factual tales of ascents, vacations and misadventures. Chris must live around here somewhere, as he seems to get on those fourteeners wayyy too often. See his interesting Aconcagua story.
- Texas Mountaineers.Org. Having once been from Texas --- I left in 1988 --- I have a certain affinity for folks who for one reason or another have to live in Texas, or Nebraska, or somewhere far from a crag... These guys have an interesting site nevertheless. Very clean and lean. Maybe I could learn something here...
- Tuan's Mountaineering PageTuan has been around. Wander his site and you will see...

Gear Sites
- Black Diamond Equipment: Yvon's old company, employee-owned, operated as usual by climbers.
- Campmor: Mountain Gear available world-wide from Paramus, New Jersey!!
- Climb Tech: software (Goods, that is), etc... Web-oriented gear sales. These guys manufacture Removable Bolts, which may sound strange to the non-climber... hmmm, come to think of it, it sounds strange period... Oh well...
- Fish Products' Tech Weenie Page: You simply must visit Russ Walling's site(s) if you have anything to do at all with, for one thing, fixed anchors... not to mention Big Walls!!
- Misty Mountain Threadworks: The infamous Threadworks, makers of fine harnesses and stuff.
- Mountain Gear: More excellent selection. Faithfully, they send me a catalogue, forcing me to buy, buy, buy!!!
- Mountain Tools: Good deals and big selection. They make a few things of their own, very nice!
- Petzl: Totally-certified gear, por un passion...
- Seattle Manufacturing Corporation I prefer SMC's equipment when it comes to technical AND non-technical mountaineering. I have been using their axes and crampons for over twenty years, and I've always been immensely satisfied with their products.
- Shoreline Mountain ProductsShoreline recently acquired the inventory and all that jazz of Mountain High Limited, and Al & Bob of M.H.L. gave their kudos and recommendations of Tom Shores, Part-Owner/Operator of Shoreline.
- Sierra Trading Post: Good stuff at excellent prices. Located right here in good, ol' Cheyenne, Wyoming!!
- Wired Bliss Camming Devices: The original TCU people. Made in America. I've been abusing their stuff for years...

Helpful Environmental & Community-based Sites

- The Cheyenne Network. A statewide, as well as local, website. You can link to local businesses, get the local news, weather, and even find out which school you're gonna have to send your kids to when you finally relocate here & start climbing some of the world's most notorious offwidths!!!
- Wyoming Dept of Transportation Clickable Road Conditions Map.
- WyDOT I-80 Summit Cam. This is between Laramie & Cheyenne, and it gives you a pretty accurate idea of what is happening weather-wise at Vedauwoo.

Magazine & E-zine Sites

- Chessler Books: Purveyor of great literature. You want that book? They can get it!
- Climbing Magazine: One of climbers' longest-standing publications, since 1970
- MountainZone: This is a clearinghouse for mountain news on the Web. Kind of like USA Today
- Rock & Ice Magazine: Another long-standing mag, now online as well
- Rocklist is back... go there now.
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