04/08/2020
Climbers in Quarantine: The Weekly Stoke (2)
Categories: Community
Howdy fellow hermits! Have you started installing holds in your drywall yet? As the isolation continues, we’re drawing inspiration from climbers and peregrine falcons, experts in social distancing. Each year we’re asked to give peregrines space during nesting season by honoring seasonal closures. Even though we’re not sharing the cliffs with them right now, we’re thinking of our feathered friends out there nesting, making babies, and flying so fast coronavirus will never catch them. Check out the Tread Lightly Tip of the Week below for fun falcon facts. Ha! Alliteration is awesome. Stay sane and keep washing your hands.
Climbers Stuck at Home: Photo of the Week
Indoor Training Freebies
Resist the undeniable draw of the couch and keep training!
- As if real crack climbing isn’t brutal enough, Rock & Ice shows us how to build our own at-home crack training system. These babies can be built in a weekend with minimal construction skills. Splitters and splinters unite!
- Meagan Martin is leading us through a whole series of at-home HIIT workouts. By the time the quarantine is over, we’re definitely trying out for American Ninja Warrior.
- Don’t forget to train your brain. Sport psychologist and founder of Climbing Psychology, Madeleine Crane, shares mental health tips for cooped up climbers. The struggle is real.
Entertaining Tidbits
Fun stuff from around the web to keep you stoked.
- Gorilla attacks Dave Wetmore while he takes a crap. Motive unclear….could be improper waste disposal at the crag or perhaps he’s trying to get his hands on that toilet paper.
- Go back in time to the film that helped launch the bouldering revolution. Watch 18-year-old phenom Chris Sharma roam the American West to take down the hardest bouldering problems of the day.
- Free trad climbing videos of people with funny accents, courtesy of our friends across the pond at UK Climbing. This one looks gnarly. Pretty sure you'll pull a glute just watching that move.
- Join the Climbing Book Club, presented by Mountaineers Books and Climbing Magazine. The first book on tap is Pete Whittaker’s Crack Climbing: A Definitive Guide. Get in there!
- Did you miss last week's edition of The Weekly Stoke? Get it here.
Do Good: Advocacy Inspiration
- JEDI 101 for Climbers: Educate yourself and help ensure that people from all walks of life have a chance to experience the power and beauty of climbing.
- Support Access Fund's work to protect climbing areas across the country, and get a 2020 Climbing Advocate Eco-Koozie.
- Need some inspiration? We just announced our 2019 Climbing Advocate Awards and these folks have some pretty incredible stories.
We're In This Together
