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This is handy for weekly specials:

http://www.salescircular.com/ky.shtml

And Black Friday is right around the corner:

http://www.blackfriday.info/

While not really a climbing resource, per se, gasbuddy.com should be useful when the gas prices go up again--especially to people who are traveling a long way, and want to know where the best refueling stops will be. Here's a link to the Clay City map, where gas was $1.79.9 at one station when I pos...

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As the main climbing season here reaches full swing, a bunch of links about climbing injuries seems like a good idea. *grin* If you google "climbing injuries" and the like, you mostly find a bunch of medical abstracts that ask you to pay for a PDF (lurk probably already has them all)...her...

I think I first started to obsess about learning to do one-arm chins when I saw ashtray rip off 3 of them (I still can't do even one.). I'm not sure being able to do them will make you a better climber, but he certainly does ok...anyway, training for one-arm's is <i>dangerous</i> like climbing, but ...

Tight shoes used to be necessary because the materials stretched and the shoes also poorly conformed to foot shape. That all changed with synth and better-designed shoes. Early research: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1W-4379FCC-7&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&a...

More than you ever really wanted to know about dynamic climbing ropes:

http://www.alaskamountaineering.com/Inf ... &c=219&s=0

A simple visual explanation of basic UIAA rope testing:

http://www.theuiaa.org/upload_area/cert ... cRopes.pdf

Oh brother. 90 pages of bolt testing analysis? Coming from the guy who loves old rusty bolts and has rack that is literally a 'history of active protection'? We really do need to get out more. :lol: You don't know the half of it--I just got some "new" gear: http://www.needlesports.com/nut...

More bolting links: For engineering types like the webers, ashtray, etc here's an analysis of chem bolts in sandstone: http://www.chockstone.org/TechTips/SandstoneBolting.pdf The Reader's Digest condensed version for the less mathematically inclined *grin*: http://www.chockstone.org/TechTips/Sandsto...

A good safe bolting practices collection:

http://www.safeclimbing.org/education.htm