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 The 25,000 Dollar Question: What's the Price of Adventure?
It’s fair to say Scott Mason bit off a little more than he could chew. In April, the Eagle Scout embarked on an ambitious one day traverse of the northern Presidential range in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Early into his hike, he twisted an ankle, but chose to continue. A few miles later, Mason re-considered and opted for a quicker route back to the road, only to find the trail blocked by numerous streams swollen by spring snow melt.
 Donkey in Training
July 2009 - No one can say for sure what it is exactly that draws us mountain folk together. Surely, Myers Briggs forgot a category when classifying we the people. In the quaint, rugged hideaways we call home, anything goes. And that's the way we like it. Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules. Behavior that would generally be considered ludicrous, rowdy or dare I say flashy is par for the course.
 The Greatest Mountaineering Survival Story Never Told
July 2009 - This past Presidents Day, I was
cold, hungry, thirsty, fairly drunk
with fatigue and miserable with an
altitude sickness headache, stumbling
down the snow-covered stack of blocks making
up the northwest ridge of a mountain
locally known as "Drift Peak," when I tripped
and plopped down on my ass and decided
to stay there for a while. I was finally in a spot sheltered from
the 40-mile-an-hour wind that had been
whipping snow into the exposed parts of
my face since we started descending from
the 13,900-foot summit.
 Wandering wolf tracks lead to death, and dreams
July 2009 - At the end of March, as spring began to crawl into the High Country, the radio transmissions from the collar fitted on a female wolf stopped moving. The stagnant signal emitted from a spot in western Colorado, and when state and federal wildlife investigators descended, they found her dead body.
 First National Study To Examine Rock Climbing-Related Injuries
In the past decade the popularity of rock climbing has dramatically increased. It has been estimated that rock climbing is now enjoyed by more than 9 million people in the U.S. each year. A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at the Nationwide Children's Hospital found that as the popularity of the sport has escalated, so have the number of injuries.
 Access Fund Announces New Advocacy Tool
The Access Fund announced today the launch of a new online grassroots advocacy tool that makes it easier and faster for activists to help influence public policy that affects climbing access. While "action alerts" are nothing new to Access Fund supporters, the days of drafting their own letters, cutting and pasting drafted letters, and digging around to find the correct decision makers are over.
 Access Fund's Second Round of 2009 Grant Recipients
In the second round of the Climbing Preservation Grants program for 2009, the Access Fund awarded over $12,000 to support local climbing activism and conservation of the climbing environment. Presented three times annually, the Climbing Preservation Grants program provides financial assistance for local climber activism and protection of the climbing environment in the United States.
 Largest Group of Blind Climbers and Youngest Blind Climber Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro
On June 29, 2009 after a year of training, the largest group of blind climbers and the youngest blind climber set two world records successfully summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro. "Team Kili," as they refer to themselves, left for the summit saying "Many doubted us all along the way, but we persevered. There is no doubt left in our hearts, only the will to succeed and get to 19,340 feet."
 Boys of the Wood
June 2009 - Castlewood Canyon, about two miles south of Franktown, Colo., isn't exactly a rock-climbing Mecca. It is east of I-25, for one thing, which is practically Kansas to most climbers living in or visiting Colorado. The rock here isn't the vertically seamed granite of Lumpy Ridge, or the 300-foot sandstone walls of Eldorado Canyon. Nobody's driving cross-country to come climbing here.
 Access Fund signs MOU with National Park Service
The Access Fund announces today that, after six years of collaborative negotiations, it has finalized and signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Park Service (NPS). The newly signed MOU frames a cooperative relationship between the climbing community and the National Park Service. It outlines the common interests that the parties share - such as conservation and planning - as well as how they will work together to reach common goals.
 Tree Climbing in Fort Collins
June 2009 - The willows of the Poudre River Trail are a great place to start. They often grow in tight groups and some of the older ones create a massive network of crossing trunks. Occasionally a branch will arch gradually back to the ground, allowing for one to walk across it and arrive at a different place on the ground from where they left.
 The GOOD MEN PROJECT ANNOUNCES WINNING ESSAY ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GOOD MAN IN AMERICA TODAY
“Iowa Black Dirt” by Perry Glasser Wins National Writing Contest - The Good Men Foundation, a charitable corporation dedicated to helping organizations provide educational, social, financial and legal support to men and boys at risk, today announced Perry Glasser as the winner of The Good Men Project National Writing Contest (www.goodmenbook.org/winner).
 Two Seventeen-Year-Olds Summit Everest
In an amazing week of Himalayan climbing two seventeen-year-old Americans have successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest. A third seventeen-year old, Arizona based Erica Dohring turned around at camp III. John Collinson of Snowbird, Utah reached the summit on May 19th, 2009, followed by Johnny Strange of Malibu, California on May 20th.
 Persistence Pays Off
By Guy McCarthy / watershednews.blogspot.com - Blasting winds, heavy snow and grinding ice destroyed three of his tents on the world's eighth-highest mountain. At times he endured temperatures 40 below zero Fahrenheit and colder, in a realm so devoid of oxygen those who go there call it the Death Zone. He assisted in two rescues and the elements contributed to at least one fatality.
 First Ascent Team Summits Everest!
On the morning of May 19, two legendary mountaineers on the First Ascent "Return to Everest" expedition reached the highest point on Earth. Ed Viesturs and Peter Whittaker stood on the summit with members of their production crew before descending to High Camp at 26,000 feet.
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