In their recent e-newsletter, the American Alpine Club presents a cheat sheet to help members and advocates convince other climbers to join. The reasons are compelling, but come on. Being a climber and not being a member of the Alpine Club is like being Lance Armstrong and not wearing a Livestrong wrist band. Not good […]

Trip report from a recent climb on Mt. Evans LINK via Dougald’s Mountain World

You never realize how much adventure, climbing in my case, consumes of your life until you can’t do it. On Monday last week, I tweaked a tendon doing some pull-ups. Since then, I’ve spent more hours trying to figure out what to do with myself than I usually spend climbing. I also demolished a room […]

Boo Yah! C.A.M.P. sponsored Team Crested Butte has won yet another Adventure Xstream race so far winning all but one race in the series. Two more races to go … will they continue the dominant sweep? Check out the story at Checkpoint Zero: http://www.checkpointzero.com/index.cfm?method=home.showArticle&articleID=1156

Forty minutes from the parking lot near Summit Lake sits the multi-pitch granite Black Wall of Mount Evans. Bring two sixty meter ropes (twins are ideal) for the rappels and get an early start (storms tend to roll in starting around noon). We hit the trail around 8 and topped out on the trade route […]

Team Stray Dogs and GoLITE place third at Gobi March in Kashgar, China! Nice work gents. LINK via Marshall’s Blog

Following the grueling and wet AR World Championship race in Scotland (Team Crested Butte placed 8th), Bryan Wickenhauser has come home to see his face in the Denver Post Outdoor Extremes Diary … http://www.denverpost.com/extremes/ci_6061832

Just as Team Crested Butte boarded a plane for Scotland to compete in the AR World Championships, C.A.M.P. USA was finalizing its support of another world class adventure athlete. Justin Lichter goes by the trail name Trauma after crossing the United States from North to South three times in 356 days covering more than 10,000 […]

Two races into the adventure racing season and it is clear that Team Crested Butte is no longer a team to watch, but the team to watch. The team comprised of adventure athletes from the Gunnison Valley has won both Adventure XStream races so far and is ready to strike at international races in Scotland […]

The verdict is in … C.A.M.P. sponsored athlete Ethan Passant of Crested Butte is the country’s fastest rando racer. He won all five COSMIC races along with several other major races. Bryan Wickenhauser of Crested Butte made a significant showing with four podium finishes as did Mike Kloser finishing second place in both of the […]