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Our Alaska: Climbing into the unknown - Alaska Dispatch
29 Jan 2012 at 7:35pm

Alaska Dispatch
Our Alaska: Climbing into the unknown
Alaska Dispatch
For some adventurers, it's not enough to conquer one of Alaska's well-known climbing peaks, like Mt. McKinley or Mt. St. Elias. For some, it's less about the difficulty of the climb and more about being the first -- and for that, sometimes mountaineers ...

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Cheapflights.ca creates its Top 10 Thrill-Seeking Sporting Events around the ...
22 Feb 2012 at 3:13pm

Cheapflights.ca creates its Top 10 Thrill-Seeking Sporting Events around the ...
Regina Leader-Post (blog)
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ? Anchorage to Nome, Alaska on March 3 ? ?The Last Great Race on Earth?, the Iditarod Trail started out as a supply route. In 1925, when diphtheria broke out in Nome, 20 mushers and 150 dogs rushed to deliver the antiserum ...
Cheapflights.com Goes to the ExtremeMarketWatch (press release)

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Obama's Alaskan Island GiveAway, Run Sarah Run, Rock Stars, Police State - DB...
22 Feb 2012 at 3:14am

DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts
Obama's Alaskan Island GiveAway, Run Sarah Run, Rock Stars, Police State
DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts
The most striking sentence has to be: ?Policymakers in Western capitals agree that Syrian President Bashar Assad's suppression of dissent, with a toll of 6000 dead so far ? and still climbing ? makes him the war criminal.? Wow!


Local Ice Climbing Competition ? Held Indoors - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
17 Feb 2012 at 4:41pm

Local Ice Climbing Competition ? Held Indoors
KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
By Kate McPherson ANCHORAGE ? When you think about ice climbing, you don't generally think about it being indoors, but tomorrow the two will come together in Alaska's first dry tool climbing competition. The number of ice climbers in Alaska is growing, ...
GETTING OUT: Taking the lead, Ice-climbing festival trains newbies and old ...Anchorage Press

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Tim Remick's Denali Climber Portraits - About - News & Issues
20 Feb 2012 at 11:11am

Tim Remick's Denali Climber Portraits
About - News & Issues
Climbing a big mountain takes it's toll on you. Alaskan photographer and climber Tim Remick currently has an exhibition of photographs of Denali climbers entitled "After: Portraits from Denali" on display until April 15 at the Anchorage Museum in ...


Pelosi blames Wall Street for gas-price spike - The Hill (blog)
22 Feb 2012 at 3:40pm

Pelosi blames Wall Street for gas-price spike
The Hill (blog)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said unscrupulous Wall Street investors have artificially inflated prices at the pump, which are climbing toward $4 per gallon. The California Democrat called on Congress to take "strong action" to rein the allegedly ...

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Fred Beckey, legendary climber of Alaska, Cascade peaks, shares stories, phot...
11 Feb 2012 at 5:31am

OregonLive.com (blog)
Fred Beckey, legendary climber of Alaska, Cascade peaks, shares stories, photos
OregonLive.com (blog)
Compared with the Alps, few climbers competed to be first up the peaks of Washington's North Cascades or routes not far away in Canada and Alaska. But even more significant is Beckey's obsession for climbing. He did it for months each year, ...

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Climbers with disabilities prove again that where there's a will, there's a w...
17 Feb 2012 at 3:21pm

Climbers with disabilities prove again that where there's a will, there's a way
Conway Daily Sun
O'Neill's older brother Sean, from Brownfield, Maine, has been in a wheelchair for more than 20 years, but with Timmy's help Sean has climbed mountains and rock faces from California to Utah to Alaska. ?The cool thing about it is the energy of the ...

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Alaska Ice Climbing Festival - Indoor Climbing Clinics - Anchorage Daily News
13 Feb 2012 at 7:07am

Alaska Ice Climbing Festival - Indoor Climbing Clinics
Anchorage Daily News
Alaska Ice Climbing Festival indoor climbing clinics are offered at the Alaska Rock Gym. Climbing Clinics are for all abilities. Climbing Clinic topics include: Climbing Anchors, Escape the Belay, Multi-Pitch Climbing Transition and New Ice Climbing ...

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Alaska Air Group's internal Q&A with Ayer and Tilden - The Seattle Times
16 Feb 2012 at 12:22pm

Alaska Air Group's internal Q&A with Ayer and Tilden
The Seattle Times
Q: In 'Character & Characters,' Robert Serling wrote that Alaska Airlines has 'an uncanny knack for picking the right leader at precisely the right time and, conversely, each leader has been succeeded by the right new leader.

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Obama's Alaskan Island GiveAway, Run Sarah Run, Rock Stars, Police State - DB...
22 Feb 2012 at 3:14am

DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts
Obama's Alaskan Island GiveAway, Run Sarah Run, Rock Stars, Police State
DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts
The most striking sentence has to be: ?Policymakers in Western capitals agree that Syrian President Bashar Assad's suppression of dissent, with a toll of 6000 dead so far ? and still climbing ? makes him the war criminal.? Wow!


Cheapflights.com Goes to the Extreme - MarketWatch (press release)
22 Feb 2012 at 7:49am

Cheapflights.com Goes to the Extreme
MarketWatch (press release)
Ice Climbing World Cup -- Kirov, Russia from March 8 - 10 -- Rock climbing might be a popular sport for some, but throw in some ice and it's an entirely different game. Racing up a sheer ice wall with nothing but two ice picks in your hands and the ...

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Local Ice Climbing Competition ? Held Indoors - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
17 Feb 2012 at 4:41pm

Local Ice Climbing Competition ? Held Indoors
KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
The Alaska Ice Climbing Festival has a unique competition this year, and surprisingly, it doesn't involve ice. ?It's a little bit like ice climbing and a little bit like rock climbing,? said Matt Szundy, the organizer of the festival.
GETTING OUT: Taking the lead, Ice-climbing festival trains newbies and old ...Anchorage Press

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Alaska Ice Climbing Festival - Indoor Climbing Clinics - Anchorage Daily News
13 Feb 2012 at 7:07am

Alaska Ice Climbing Festival - Indoor Climbing Clinics
Anchorage Daily News
Alaska Ice Climbing Festival indoor climbing clinics are offered at the Alaska Rock Gym. Climbing Clinics are for all abilities. Climbing Clinic topics include: Climbing Anchors, Escape the Belay, Multi-Pitch Climbing Transition and New Ice Climbing ...

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Outdoors hotline (2/14/12) - Bellingham Herald
13 Feb 2012 at 11:49pm

Outdoors hotline (2/14/12)
Bellingham Herald
(562-2235, www.asdra.org) Ice Fest Comp & Clinics, 2-10 pm, Alaska Rock Gym, 4840 Fairbanks St. The annual Alaska Ice Climbing Festival will be partly held at Alaska Rock Gym on Friday, with ice climbing mini-skill-builders, gear demonstrations and a ...

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Fred Beckey, legendary climber of Alaska, Cascade peaks, shares stories, phot...
11 Feb 2012 at 5:31am

OregonLive.com (blog)
Fred Beckey, legendary climber of Alaska, Cascade peaks, shares stories, photos
OregonLive.com (blog)
Beckey was climbing at a high standard -- including 5.10 moves -- at Yosemite in California and Smith Rock in Oregon, until a few years ago. But a hospitalization last year forced the maestro to slow down. "Fred struggles more approaching climbs than ...

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Our Alaska: Climbing into the unknown - Alaska Dispatch
29 Jan 2012 at 7:35pm

Alaska Dispatch
Our Alaska: Climbing into the unknown
Alaska Dispatch
For some adventurers, it's not enough to conquer one of Alaska's well-known climbing peaks, like Mt. McKinley or Mt. St. Elias. For some, it's less about the difficulty of the climb and more about being the first -- and for that, sometimes mountaineers ...

and more »
Climbers with disabilities prove again that where there's a will, there's a w...
17 Feb 2012 at 3:21pm

Climbers with disabilities prove again that where there's a will, there's a way
Conway Daily Sun
O'Neill's older brother Sean, from Brownfield, Maine, has been in a wheelchair for more than 20 years, but with Timmy's help Sean has climbed mountains and rock faces from California to Utah to Alaska. ?The cool thing about it is the energy of the ...

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Vigorous Outdoor Escapes - Harvard Magazine
17 Feb 2012 at 8:01am

Vigorous Outdoor Escapes
Harvard Magazine
Outdoor sports such as rock climbing have clearly risen in popularity, according to Sam Brotherton '12, vice president of the Harvard Mountaineering Club (www.harvardmountaineering.org), which is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni, ...


UP for fun? Try Michigan's Upper Peninsula in winter - Louisville Courier-Jou...
19 Feb 2012 at 12:06am

UP for fun? Try Michigan's Upper Peninsula in winter
Louisville Courier-Journal
If you want to learn to drive a dogsled a good place is Nature's Kennel in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where Tasha Stielstra will continue to teach novice mushers while husband Ed is in Alaska competing in the Iditarod Race. Associated Press Snow biker ...



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Local Ice Climbing Competition ? Held Indoors - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
17 Feb 2012 at 4:41pm

Local Ice Climbing Competition ? Held Indoors
KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska
By Kate McPherson ANCHORAGE ? When you think about ice climbing, you don't generally think about it being indoors, but tomorrow the two will come together in Alaska's first dry tool climbing competition. The number of ice climbers in Alaska is growing, ...
GETTING OUT: Taking the lead, Ice-climbing festival trains newbies and old ...Anchorage Press

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Cheapflights.com Goes to the Extreme - MarketWatch (press release)
22 Feb 2012 at 7:49am

Cheapflights.com Goes to the Extreme
MarketWatch (press release)
Ice Climbing World Cup -- Kirov, Russia from March 8 - 10 -- Rock climbing might be a popular sport for some, but throw in some ice and it's an entirely different game. Racing up a sheer ice wall with nothing but two ice picks in your hands and the ...

and more »
Alaska Ice Climbing Festival - Indoor Climbing Clinics - Anchorage Daily News
13 Feb 2012 at 7:07am

Alaska Ice Climbing Festival - Indoor Climbing Clinics
Anchorage Daily News
Alaska Ice Climbing Festival indoor climbing clinics are offered at the Alaska Rock Gym. Climbing Clinics are for all abilities. Climbing Clinic topics include: Climbing Anchors, Escape the Belay, Multi-Pitch Climbing Transition and New Ice Climbing ...

and more »
Outdoors hotline (2/14/12) - Bellingham Herald
13 Feb 2012 at 11:49pm

Outdoors hotline (2/14/12)
Bellingham Herald
Watch "20 Trips in 60 Minutes" with Will Gadd, with trips ranging from setting world records in paragliding, climbing icebergs, caves, mountains and more. Showing in conjunction with the Alaska Ice Climbing Festival. After the movie there will be a ...

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Climbers with disabilities prove again that where there's a will, there's a w...
17 Feb 2012 at 3:21pm

Climbers with disabilities prove again that where there's a will, there's a way
Conway Daily Sun
CONWAY ? It looked to be a regular day of ice climbing on Saturday when more than 20 climbers and guides piled into the Cathedral Ledge parking lot. But it wasn't. That became obvious when Brian Fountaine sat down and took off his feet.

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'Girls on Ice' brings adventurous spirit to Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
12 Feb 2012 at 10:02am

Alaska Dispatch
'Girls on Ice' brings adventurous spirit to Alaska
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Ned Rozell / Alaska Science Forum FAIRBANKS, Alaska - After more than a decade on the glaciers of Washington, Girls on Ice is coming to Alaska. Girls on Ice is a program in which nine girls spend 11 adventurous days on a glacier with professional ...
'Girls on Ice' program in Alaska, Washington triggers interest in scienceAlaska Dispatch

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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to be shown at UAF's Davis Concert Ha...
16 Feb 2012 at 1:22am

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to be shown at UAF's Davis Concert Hall
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Kristina Williams photo FAIRBANKS ? Whether it's mountain climbing, ice climbing, powder skiing, kayaking, mountain biking or bouldering, the Banff Mountain Film Festival has something for just about every kind of outdoors adrenaline junkie there is.

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Climbers dig in to Michigan Ice Fest - UpperMichigansSource.com
3 Feb 2012 at 4:23pm

Climbers dig in to Michigan Ice Fest
UpperMichigansSource.com
We caught up with couple, John and Stephanie Wowsuck who traveled from Chicago to climb the ice for John's birthday. He has gone ice climbing before in Alaska but says the ice formations in Munising are closer and better. "It's as safe as it can be, ...


UP for fun? Try Michigan's Upper Peninsula in winter - Louisville Courier-Jou...
19 Feb 2012 at 12:06am

UP for fun? Try Michigan's Upper Peninsula in winter
Louisville Courier-Journal
If you want to learn to drive a dogsled a good place is Nature's Kennel in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where Tasha Stielstra will continue to teach novice mushers while husband Ed is in Alaska competing in the Iditarod Race. Associated Press Snow biker ...


Outdoors hotline (2/7/12) - Bellingham Herald
7 Feb 2012 at 12:10am

Outdoors hotline (2/7/12)
Bellingham Herald
(770-0440, www.alaska-outdoors.org) Ice Fest Comp & Clinics, 2-10 pm, Alaska Rock Gym, 4840 Fairbanks St. The annual Alaska Ice Climbing Festival will be partly held at Alaska Rock Gym on Feb. 17, with ice climbing mini-skill-builders, gear demos and a ...



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Nina Caprez Repeats Mind Control (5.14c)
22 Feb 2012 at 2:50pm
2/22/12 - Nina Caprez has redpointed Mind Control (5.14c) in Oliana, Spain, a few days just after Daila Ojeda climbed the same line.
World's Hardest Dry Tooling Route?
22 Feb 2012 at 1:46pm
2/22/12 - German climber Robert Jasper has made the first ascent of one of the hardest dry tooling routes in the world.
Webb Finishes The Island (V14)
17 Feb 2012 at 10:14am
2/17/12 - Jimmy Webb has climbed his second Fontainebleau V14 with The Island.
Daila Ojeda Redpoints Mind Control (5.14c)
17 Feb 2012 at 9:07am
2/17/12 - Daila Ojeda redpointed Mind Control (5.14c) in Oliana, Spain, yesterday.
2012 Piolet d'Or Nominations Announced
16 Feb 2012 at 3:24pm
2/16/12 - Six climbs by 15 alpinists?six of them American?have been nominated for the 20th edition of the Piolets d?Or, the annual prize for innovative mountaineering ascents across the world.