Journal

The Journal is dedicated to the sports and people that make Black Diamond what it is.

  • Friday, July 17, 2009

    Winger For The Weekend #2

    A friend emailed us this video a couple days ago with the subject line: Punk is not dead . Now, we're normally not ones to watch BMX vids, but we'll make an exception for this guy Colt Fake. Our hats go off to you, Colt, you two-wheeled warrior of the urban wasteland. Anybody who can take those kind of savage, nut-bustin', skull-crackin'... [READ MORE]

  • Thursday, July 16, 2009

    Sam Johnson makes FA of Mount Balchen's Alchemy Ridge in Alaska

    Sam Johnson is one of our grassroots climbing athletes and he recently teamed up with Matt Klick for an impressive first ascent on the north ridge of Alaska's Mount Balchen, where they battled heinous winds to make summit. Below is the post and photos he posted on his blog. Here are a few pics from my two-week trip to the Hayes Range... [READ MORE]

  • Wednesday, July 15, 2009

    Dave Turner returns from two-month solo mission to northeastern Baffin Island

    Black Diamond athlete Dave Turner has just returned from another highly successful solo big wall expedition, this time from the frozen wonderland of Baffin Island, Canada. After spending more than two months alone in the Arctic, Turner had quite a few tales to tell and sent us the following email and photos shortly after he returned home.... [READ MORE]

  • Wednesday, July 15, 2009

    QC Lab: Autoblock Misuse

    Lately I’ve been getting quite a few questions on the use of the Black Diamond ATC-Guide and/or similar “autoblock”-style belay devices—and another installment of QC with KP was born. I’ve seen some curious/scary autoblock uses/misuses out there and I had the boys in the QA lab test a couple of the setups I’ve seen, which were: a)... [READ MORE]

  • Tuesday, July 14, 2009

    VIDEO: Greenpeace activists get busted climbing Mount Rushmore

    On July 9th, 2009 a group of Greenpeace activists went climbing... on the face of Mount Rushmore, which is, uh, pretty much totally illegal. The crew climbed the famed American icon, rapped down next to Lincoln's face and hung a massive banner to raise awareness for global warming. Despite getting Peter-Pan'd around by the banner as it blew... [READ MORE]