BD Crash Pads, Episode 1: Conrad Anker's Gear Room

Here at Black Diamond, our athletes' all-consuming drive to spend as much time in the mountains, at the crags and on the trails as possible tends to make for some interesting living situations. Modded-out cargo vans, backwoods shacks, parents' basements and musty expedition tents—the idiosyncratic places they reside when they're not doing what they do are a defining testament to the Black Diamond team's passion for climbing and skiing. Whether it's just a place to store gear, a comfy base to rest up for the next adventure or a traveling home on wheels, this ongoing series will give you an inside look at the places BD climbers and skiers call home. 
In Episode 1, we made a visit to Montana during the Bozeman Ice Festival to take a peek inside Black Diamond athlete Conrad Anker's basement gear room/shrine/museum.

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athletes, ice-tools, gear, conrad-anker, climbing, climb, knowledge, culture, employees

Recent Talk (1)

• Conrad
  20 Feb 2013, 6:57AM

  Thanks for the kind words.....
  
  The Chilean flag was from the Banff visit this past October. I love Chile: the people, the landscape and the wild nature of this fantastic nation.
  
  I have the Tibetan flag, a flag from the Himalayan Stove Project and a jolly rodger.
  
  Conrad

• Andrew Bergan
  21 Jan 2013, 11:05AM

  Very cool! The Meru sharks fin climb was super impressive.

• Jose Francisco Hurtado
  17 Jan 2013, 10:23AM

  A friend from my club, Fernando Fainberg, who works with Black Diamond here in Chile, asked in Facebook where did Conrad got the chilean flag from his basement. Any idea? he was here in Chile for Banff Film Festival last year, but I think that the flag, maybe, has another story!

• Andrés
  17 Jan 2013, 9:20AM

  Chile´s flag 0:55
  
  Why is it there Conrad ??

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