MbPost.com -- It's SP for Mountain Biking!
Calling all mountain bikers! MbPost.com is SP's first sister site. Like SP, it is a collaborative content community, but it is focused on mountain biking instead of climbing.
This site is in its infancy right now, so many popular areas and trails are still "open". The site is built using the same core code as SP, so you'll instantly feel right at home with the navigation and features.
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Jan 1, 2009 12:11 AM by Marcsoltan
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Jan 5, 2009 1:37 AM by Antonio Giani
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Featured Trip Reports
101 Ways to Pass Time at Camp (On the Ruth Glacier)
by PellucidWombat
Michael Heathfield, our trip organizer, and Michael Buchanan, another eager first-timer to Alaska, met me in Anchorage in May of 2006 to climb a new route on the Northwest face of Peak 11,300 (1),(2),(3), which is on the Southeast Spur of Denali.
While the existing lines went directly up couloirs on the edge of the face, meeting the West Ridge, or approaching the summit from the side, our intended line would ascend a large ramp that cut across the face, before cutting directly up the center of the face to the summit, following a couloir, with a sizeable section of rock in the middle. From there we would climb a snow ridge and ice dome to the summit. After months of planning, and months of diligent physical training, I was ready to embark on my first big Alaska adventure.
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Ice climbing in La Grave and Arolla
by mvs
Dan P. and I scheduled to climb in Cogne, Italy for a week, but a sudden vicious snowfall put things out of condition, even making it impossible to drive to our hotel. So we stayed in La Grave where the snowfall was less severe. I don't have all the pictures yet, they are in Dan's camera. And at other times, my own camera basically froze up and I couldn't get any pictures. So some icefalls have none as of yet!
We had a great time, and improved our abilities in safe conditions. Every day was blue sky, but not too warm.
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The Grand Teton and Borah Peak
by tmcrane
After smearing some cold Chapstick on my cracked lips, I took a moment to look at the sky. Morning was just beginning to appear over the ridge, and sunlight painted the few stray clouds a brilliant shade of pink. “Wow, sunrises never get old,” I thought as I continued up the southwest ridge of Borah Peak.
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TRAGEDY on the THRESHOLD of the MOUNTAIN that was GOD
by lcarreau
Mount Rainier has attracted thousands of climbers since the first documented ascent of the 14,411-foot peak in 1870. ALL have had to cope with Rainier's fickle weather, which can be deadly. Rising as it does in Western Washington, Rainier bears the unabated force of storms sweeping across the North Pacific.
On stormy days, which can occur at any day of the year, the mountain offers a grim face to mountaineers. Winds can buffet the climber with near-hurricane force. Temperatures can plunge to arctic extremes in minutes, and when the clouds roll in, visibility is reduced to a few feet.
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In Praise of Bushwhacking
by vancouver islander
From the perspective of the true outdoor enthusiast, the word “development” is an oxymoron. Development implies progress and how exactly can encroaching urbanisation, mechanisation, bijou wilderness lodges and the like and even signed trails properly be regarded as progress when applied to real wilderness? Nothing truly belongs in the alpine environment except the mountain and its natural bastions of forest, river, cliff and glacier. Can anyone claim to have truly climbed a mountain who has used a gondola or an aircraft as a significant part of his or her approach strategy?
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What Climbing Means To Me
by alpinedon
I am, I think, a fairly rare climber: Someone who, throughout the course of my life, has been a failure. I think for many climbers they have been successful at many stages in their lives, driven, ambitious, used to success. For me, it has mostly been the opposite – twelve years of failure at school, repeated financial incompetence, broken relationships, no real career to speak of, repeated stopping and starting of interests, lack of focus, poor health etc., etc, ad nauseum. And that is, really, the truth. I was a quitter and a loser.
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