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Tech Tip: Taper Trimming Your Skins
Dialing in your new backcountry kit for the upcoming season? Straight from our design crew, the latest tech tip will help make the uphill portion of your day a little more enjoyable. Cutting the proper tip and tail taper is the last step in trimming skins to fit your skis-and its importance is often overlooked. A proper taper trim... [READ MORE]
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BD athlete Sam Elias reports on the 3rd Annual Yangshuo Climbing Festival
Black Diamond athlete Sam Elias joined up with fellow BD athletes Yuji Hirayama and Abond for the 3rd Annual Yangsuo Climbing Festival in Yangshuo, China. Below is Sam’s report about this massive gathering of global climbers and his days of climbing on the limestone karst formations with Yuji, Abond, Emily Harrington and a crew of BD... [READ MORE]
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VIDEO: BD athlete Steve Romeo skiing around New Zealand's Franz Josef Glacier
Black Diamond athlete Steve Romeo recently returned from his trip to the snowy peaks and glaciers of New Zealand and sent us the following video that showcases some of the stellar terrain and turns he got into. Pretty nice! Here's a little video compilation of a few sunny days I spent at the Centennial Hut on the Franz Josef Glacier in... [READ MORE]
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VIDEO: BD athlete Drew Stoecklein's Patagonian ski expedition - Part 1
Black Diamond athlete Drew Stoecklein recently traveled to South America to take advantage of the southern winter. After two stops on the Freeskiing World Tour — one each in Chile and Argentina — Stoecklein joined the Sweetgrass Productions crew for an expedition deep into the Patagonian Andes. Below is Drew's intro and part one of his... [READ MORE]
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VIDEO: BD athlete Drew Stoecklein's Patagonian ski expedition - Part 2
Black Diamond athlete Drew Stoecklein recently traveled to South America to take advantage of the southern winter. After two stops on the Freeskiing World Tour — one each in Chile and Argentina — Stoecklein joined the Sweetgrass Productions crew for an expedition deep into the Patagonian Andes. Below is his intro and part two of his... [READ MORE]
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VIDEO: SKI HERE NOW — Webisode #2
Here is Webisode #2 of Black Diamond Equipment's Ski Here Now, a three-part web series that takes a Zen look at skiing in the big mountains of Europe, featuring Black Diamond skiers in France and Switzerland. The Ski Here Now webisodes will be released in November, December and January exclusively in the Black Diamond Journal. The... [READ MORE]
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BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR returns to the UK
Black Diamond's Partner Banff Mountain Film Festival Tour is the most amazing collection of adventure, action sports and environmental films. And it is coming back to the UK for a second bigger and even more inspiring and adrenaline packed year in 2011. Following sold out shows across the UK last year, the Banff Mountain Film... [READ MORE]
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BD athlete Barbara Zangerl repeats Peace (5.13c) in Tuolumne Meadows, California
Black Diamond athlete Barbara Zangerl continues her evolution as a climber, this time traveling to Yosemite and Tuolumne Meadows, where she managed to pull off an ascent of Peace (5.13c) an epically sustained line of technical knobs. Below is her report as well as some photos by Christian Pfanzelt of her ascent of Peace . This... [READ MORE]
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VIDEO: BD athlete Alex Honnold onsights two 5.13 cracks in the Utah desert
Black Diamond athlete Alex Honnold has skills—serious, bone-crusher rock climbing skills. Case in point: check out this video of Honnold onsighting two of the hardest 5.13 crack climbs in the Utah desert: Trail of Tears and No Way José . Lacking a second ascent since the late-great José Pereyra's FA back in 1998, No Way José had... [READ MORE]
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VIDEO: BD athlete Paul Robinson climbing Dreamtime (8B+) and Ninja Skills (8B+)
Black Diamond athlete Paul Robinson has spent the late fall of 2010 bouldering on the granite blocks of Switzerland, managing to nab a series of impressive ascents including two 8C's (Big Paw and the FA of Ill Trill), as well as two well-known 8B+'s: the famed Dreamtime and the second ascent of fellow BD athlete Nalle Hukkataival 's Ninja... [READ MORE]
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Winger For The Weekend #75
Well, here it is the last day of 2010. For some, seeing 2010 in their rear-view mirror is a blessing, for others it'll be a bummer. Well anyone in the latter category, don't freak, fret or fear—2011 will be stacked with more Wingers For The Weekend to launch you into your two-days of frivolity, freedom and fun. To sign off this year of 2010,... [READ MORE]
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