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The 8 Best Buying Guides for the Outdoorsman
Here are the 8 best gift guides for finding something the outdoorsman in your life will actually use on their next trip.
Rock Climbing
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OutdoorsThe Biggest Thing in Climbing Is a 14-Year-Old, 90-Pound Girl from New York City
At age 14, Ashima Shiraishi is already one of the best climbers alive.
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OutdoorsClimbers Summit El Capitan, the World’s Hardest Climb
On January 14, after 19 straight days of clinging to Yosemite’s El Capitan, climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson successfully completed the first free ascent of the 5.14d Dawn Wall, widely considered the most difficult big wall rock climb in the world.
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OutdoorsGuide to Beginner Rock Climbing Essentials
This is bomber, save-your-ass gear that’ll get you started with trad climbing, but a word of caution: it’s only as good as the climber using it.
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OutdoorsFreddie Wilkinson’s Best Climbs of the East
Freddie Wilkinson makes his home in the White Mountains, where he climbs and guides most of the year between putting up alpine first ascents on expeditions to Alaska, Nepal, Patagonia, India and Antarctica.
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OutdoorsKit: Free Solo Climbing
Sometimes the mountains just call your name. Whether you’ve got a season to train for a summit bit up Mt.
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ArchiveAlizée Dufraisse: Giving it All
We wish Alizée Dufraisse would talk about us the way she talks about a rock face. The French professional climber acknowledges the focus and discipline required on a difficult ascent, but she finds romance where her peers find only challenge and exhilaration.
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Outdoors72 Hours in Moab
Forty miles south of an absolutely barren stretch of I-70 on the Colorado-Utah border sits the unlikely adventure travel capital of the Southwest desert. What Moab, Utah lacks in vegetation it makes up for in the sheer volume of red-rock activities local adrenaline junkies have dreamed up.