http://blog.firstascent.com THE FIRST ASCENT BLOG Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:11:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/08/19/guide-caroline-george-on-why-climbers%e2%80%94not-the-climb-or-the-guide%e2%80%94make-for-a-great-climb/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/08/19/guide-caroline-george-on-why-climbers%e2%80%94not-the-climb-or-the-guide%e2%80%94make-for-a-great-climb/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:50:45 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=8753 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/08/19/guide-caroline-george-on-why-climbers%e2%80%94not-the-climb-or-the-guide%e2%80%94make-for-a-great-climb/feed/ 0 Caroline George is reminded why she really loves to guide and climb. Caroline clients thumb http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/08/17/guide-caroline-george-on-the-challenges-of-feisty-mountain-weather/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/08/17/guide-caroline-george-on-the-challenges-of-feisty-mountain-weather/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:58:54 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=8743 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/08/17/guide-caroline-george-on-the-challenges-of-feisty-mountain-weather/feed/ 1 There's one thing First Ascent team member Caroline George CAN'T manage: mountain weather. caroline george summit http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/03/01/chad-peele-visits-the-southfork-ice-festival/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/03/01/chad-peele-visits-the-southfork-ice-festival/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:00:49 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=4529 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/03/01/chad-peele-visits-the-southfork-ice-festival/feed/ 1 By Chad Peele I believe that climbing should be fun, and what better way to have fun than visiting a climbing festival, meeting new people and seeing new terrain! I recently attended the Southfork Ice Festival in Cody, WY. Having never been to Cody before, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I quickly found [...] http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/03/01/arnot-and-morton-climb-above-the-birds-at-el-potrero-chico-mexico/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/03/01/arnot-and-morton-climb-above-the-birds-at-el-potrero-chico-mexico/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:05:08 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=4514 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/03/01/arnot-and-morton-climb-above-the-birds-at-el-potrero-chico-mexico/feed/ 0 By Melissa Arnot On our fifth day in Mexico, Dave and I were joined by Salvador, a friend who guides in Mexico City. Being a team of three is different; it changes how we climb, how we delegate responsibility. Most days are pretty quiet here right now, less then 100 climbers seem to be climbing. It [...] http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/28/caroline-george-reflects-on-the-first-ascent-of-uprising-in-jordan/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/28/caroline-george-reflects-on-the-first-ascent-of-uprising-in-jordan/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:00:19 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=4411 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/28/caroline-george-reflects-on-the-first-ascent-of-uprising-in-jordan/feed/ 1 By Caroline George; photo by Jim Surette/GraniteFilms.com Uprising: 5.11b (one section), 700-feet, 5 pitches. Named after the recent events in the Middle East. The sun was already low on the horizon when we topped out on our new route. We looked around at the vastness of the desert below and beyond to the Saudi border. The [...] http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/27/melissa-arnot-takes-falls-to-make-strides-in-el-potrero-chico-mexico/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/27/melissa-arnot-takes-falls-to-make-strides-in-el-potrero-chico-mexico/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:25:35 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=4398 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/27/melissa-arnot-takes-falls-to-make-strides-in-el-potrero-chico-mexico/feed/ 0 By Melissa Arnot One hundred feet off the ground, my hands are sore and my arms so fatigued I can hardly hold onto the steep wall. I know that I have only two options: stay where I am and get so tired I fall, or reach for the next series of strenuous moves. I think [...] http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/26/melissa-arnot-talks-climbing-teamwork-from-el-potrero-chico-mexico/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/26/melissa-arnot-talks-climbing-teamwork-from-el-potrero-chico-mexico/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:20:38 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=4386 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/26/melissa-arnot-talks-climbing-teamwork-from-el-potrero-chico-mexico/feed/ 2 By Melissa Arnot Melissa Arnot and Dave Morton are on a two-week trip to the famous climbing area El Potrero Chico, Mexico, with the goal of climbing single and multi-pitch rock climbs to prepare for their upcoming climb of Makalu – the world’s fifth-highest mountain, just 14 miles away from Everest. After nine straight days [...] http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/26/seth-waterfall-guides-winter-summit-of-mt-rainier/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/26/seth-waterfall-guides-winter-summit-of-mt-rainier/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:17:33 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=4286 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/26/seth-waterfall-guides-winter-summit-of-mt-rainier/feed/ 0 By Seth Waterfall; photos courtesy of Jeff Repp and Mike Esposito Just barely a week after returning from a successful expedition in Antarctica, I was back in the mountains on an RMI Winter Skills Seminar on Mt. Rainier.  I’ve got to say I wasn’t really yearning for another week of extremely cold temps. A month [...] http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/24/caroline-george-and-team-make-first-ascent-of-uprising-in-jordan/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/24/caroline-george-and-team-make-first-ascent-of-uprising-in-jordan/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:22:15 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=4327 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/24/caroline-george-and-team-make-first-ascent-of-uprising-in-jordan/feed/ 0 By Caroline George; photo by Jim Surette/GraniteFilms.com We achieved our goal here in Jordan, putting up a new route in a really remote area on more precarious rock. The route is 700 feet long, hardest pitch is 5.11b, and we named the route “Uprising”, in view of the events in the Middle East. We had a [...] http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/23/first-ascent-skiers-tour-jackson-hole-backcountry/ http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/23/first-ascent-skiers-tour-jackson-hole-backcountry/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:08:49 +0000 First Ascent Brand Team http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=4323 http://blog.firstascent.com/2011/02/23/first-ascent-skiers-tour-jackson-hole-backcountry/feed/ 1 Here’s a look at Jackson Hole, WY, home of First Ascent skiers Kent McBride and Lynsey Dyer. In this short, their joined by First Ascent skiers Reggie and Zach Crist to go off the beaten path and head into the backcountry of some of the nation’s most epic snow-covered landscapes.