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Alex Puccio joins Five Ten Team
5/07/08 - Five Ten is pleased to announce the addition of Alex Puccio to its team of athletes. Boulder-based Puccio, 18, is the country’s female top competition climber. 5/01/08 - Petzl announces a new technique for belaying a leader when using its Grigri self-braking belay device. Dissemination of this new technique will be accomplished in three modes: a web video, a poster, and an updated technical notice soon to be delivered with each Grigri belay device. 4/28/08 - prAna, a leading outdoor and active lifestyle apparel manufacturer, today announced that Steph Davis will join their team of sponsored athletes. 4/25/08 - prAna, a leading outdoor and active lifestyle apparel manufacturer, has teamed up with Om Time Yoga to sponsor Boulder’s first annual Feed Our Friends food drive. 4/24/08 - Now in its third season and with 100 or more screenings of the world's best climbing films, REEL Rock is becoming one of the most prominent social events for local climbing communities across the country. 4/23/08 - The third annual Metro DC Climb4Life wrapped up its month-long climbing challenge on March 29, 2008. This year, teamed with Sportrock Climbing Center, Earthtreks Gym, and REI, the event raised $59,000 for ovarian cancer research and awareness initiatives. 4/22/08 - Friksn Climbing Laboratory, a Norfolk, Virginia–based manufacturer of climbing clothing, is donating 15 percent of sales of its women’s Boulder Fly T-shirt to the HERA Foundation. 4/17/08 - Stonyfield Farms, Honest Tea, Clif Bar and TerraCycle join forces to eliminate the idea of waste. Four environmentally responsible companies created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. 4/17/08 - CLIF BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. 4/14/08 - A Sweetspot is a moment in time when effort and talent combine perfectly. It’s an experience of purity when everything comes together and the spectacular is achieved. These unique stories will be showcased in 3-4 minute films which will launch on 7th April 2008. 4/11/08 - With more than 1,000 climbers from across the nation converging on Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas for the fifth annual “Mountain Gear Presents: Red Rock Rendezvous” rock climbing festival in March, the event has become one of the largest climbing festivals in the nation for paid participants. 4/11/08 - Sterling Rope once again has brought to life a new dynamic cord for their Fusion series, the Ion. The Fusion series is a collection of high performance ropes in the sub- 10mm category. 4/10/08 - Montrail’s Run Like a Girl Series teams up with the HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation for four races May – September, 2008. 4/10/08 - On May 1-4, 2008, the Climbing Wall Association (CWA) will be hosting the second annual Climbing Wall Summit in Boulder, Colorado. Climbing gym vendors, manufacturers, and owners will gather at the Boulder Outlook Hotel for three days of workshops, roundtable discussions, and events, all with the aim of strengthening the climbing industry. 4/09/08 - The Hans Saari Memorial Fund, a grant-giving organization established to honor the life and values of ski-mountaineer Hans Saari, has announced award recipients for its spring 2008 grant cycle, including the recipients of the newly launched Hans Saari Memorial Ski Exploration Grant. 4/09/08 - This spring, a little over a month away, one of the country’s premier indoor climbing institutions, the Boulder Rock Club, will be host to USA Climbing’s first higher level competition routesetting clinic in years! 3/28/08 - Once in a while, revolutionary inventions come along that change the way things are done and stir things up for good. 3/26/08 - The Sierra Designs Down Bootie has developed into one of those truly indispensable pieces of gear for winter adventurers. They're like a devoted coffee drinker's favorite mug they never leave home without. 3/26/08 - La Sportiva’s team of climbing and mountain running athletes will head out to Las Vegas, Nev. for a weekend of climbing, running and clinics at the fifth annual Red Rocks Rendezvous, March 28-30, 2008. 3/14/08 - Everything must go - Tents, Sleeping Bags, Apparel (mostly men's large and women's medium) Friday March 14th 12:00 – 6:00 and Saturday March 15th 9:00 am – 1:00 pm 3/11/08 - Sierra Designs in-house “Green Team” pushes ahead on a daily basis to find new innovations that will lessen the company’s impact on the environment. 3/10/08 - Jewelry designer Bronwen Lodato’s latest design, the HERA necklace, benefits ovarian cancer research. 3/06/08 - The Access Fund is pleased to announce the launch of a new program, the boulderProject TeamWorks competition. With the cooperation of team coaches, indoor youth climbing gym teams will host or participate in Access Fund Adopt-a-Crag events all while amassing points. 2/26/08 - BlueWater Ropes is donating $15.00 from every sale of their new teal color combination 9.7mm 60-meter HERA Lightning Pro rope to the HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation. 2/18/08 - After two days of celebration with a sneak peak Tuesday night, and a morning of jovial and thoughtful competition February 13 on a sunny Pearl St. Mall with world class athletes, local outdoor non-profit leaders and community members, prAna’s Boulder Flagship store is buzzing with visitors. |
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