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the Outdoor Herald
Inside: Kupricka \ Gibson \ Land Rover e Barbour \ 95 Fifty Smart Sensor Basket \ Cafe racer
Life begins just on the other side of your comfort zone.
Anton Krupicka
RIDING THE WIND
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Mon - 5th Flatiron-> 4th Flatiron->1st Flatiron (2:13, 4000')
Anton Krupicka
Mon - 5th Flatiron-> 4th Flatiron->1st Flatiron (2:13, 4000') It's been a really long time since I linked up multiple flatirons, so this outing was a real treat. The Fifth Flatiron always seems to be the last one to melt out, and is the most out-of-the-way, so I have markedly fewer ascents of it (this was my 34th summit of the Fifth, compared to nearly 150 on the First), despite its outstanding quality of scrambling. The final arete to the summit is one of the more thrilling positions in the flatirons, in my opinion. I hadn't been on the Fifth since November, so my 15min ascent was far off my sub-9min PR, but it made for a sporty warm-up. The descent down its southern margin was predictably snowy, but I was spared from postholing by the early morning temps before continuing my scrambling on the Fourth Flatiron. I have even fewer summits (this was my 21st) of this piece-meal formation, but I still find satisfaction in its variety--the lower piece offers a unique water groove and airy arete, the middle
chunk is defined by a low-angle, waterworks chute that opens into an idyllic garden-like space, and the final piece provides a fun offwidth with an unlikely escape on thin face holds. The descent, however, was hideous this time around. Bushwhacking, boulderhopping and talus-bumbling are all made much more difficult when blanketed in several inches of snow and occasional glare ice. When I was finally back on trail, I decided I still had some pep in the legs, so I jogged over to the base of the First Flatiron for a quick scrunble that I now have completely dialed in. Despite officially requiring the most technical and tenuous moves (5.6) of all the Flatiron's east faces, it's also the one I do the most, so I feel very comfortable on the crux sequences. Plus, after nearly 2000' of scrambling, I was optimally warmed-up and accustomed to the slab-mongering these rocks require. In the evening, in lieu of a partner for climbing in the gym, I decided to overcome my prejudices and
try out some leisurely bouldering. The Sanitas trailhead is a 5min bike from my apartment, and another 5min of uphill hiking delivered me at the North Shelf Traverse, a technically easy 60' of rock wall that allowed me to get a nice pump before watching the sun set with some Melville. With summer coming, I'll hopefully be able to maintain some of my (still meager) climbing fitness I've built this winter by goofing around on boulders after morning 14er missions. the street at a more modest but still quite stately home where he actually lives.bawah ini untuk mereka yang berminat. Seksyen 1.10.32 dan 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" oleh Cicero juga disertakan seperti kandungan asal, dan disusuli dengan versi Inggeris semenjak tahun 1914, yang di terjemah oleh H. Rackham. Ada banyak versi dari mukasurat-mukasurat Lorem Ipsum yang sedia ada, tetapi kebanyakkannya telah diubahsuai, lawak jenaka diselitkan, atau ayat ayat
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The future is there, looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
William Gibson writes the Future
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the cyberspace man
The Cyberspace Man
William Gibson lives in an overwhelmingly green suburb with old-money roots south of Vancouver's downtown, and it is in this suburb that I am currently wandering, looking for William Gibson. Yesterday, over lunch, he'd given me an address that seems not to actually exist, and just a minute ago, over the phone, he gave me a real address that wasn't
his. I know this because I'm standing in front of a massive gated house, the kind of house in which a reclusive beverage magnate might live, marveling at the elaborate hedges, when Gibson appears behind me. He's laughing. "I'm not that rich," he says, apologizing for the confusion. He's wearing wire-framed
glasses and has a kind of severe oracular thinness that complements his severe six-foot-four-inch height. At 66 he is permanently bent over, breaking-wave-shaped, the result of a lifetime of leaning down to listen. He points across the street at a more modest but still quite stately home where he actually lives.
William Gibson writes the Future
William Gibson writes the Future
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Inside it's Arts and Crafts-y, wood floored, quiet. We sit in the living room, and without ceremony he picks up where we left off the day before. "I figured out the two things where I was most dumbstruck," Gibson says. "The two questions were: Was I thinking about retiring? Which I still haven't got my head around.
We all should probably hope William Gibson doesn't think the world is fucked. In the thirty years since the publication of his first novel, Neuromancer, he's gotten plenty wrong about the future but also an unsettling amount of it right. We have Neuromancer to thank for making ubiquitous the word cyberspace, which Gibson described as "a
consensual hallucination"—still maybe the best description of whatever it is we now spend most of our days doing. Since then, in books like Virtual Light (1993) and Idoru (1996), he's imagined a pretty convincing facsimile of modern reality television, long before the advent of anything that actually resembled modern reality television.
the cyberspace man
The Perfect Harmony of Portability and Perfo
pop-out sunglasses
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Launched suitably with a day of country pursuits at Land Rover’s spiritual home Eastnor Castle, the Barbour for Land Rover Collection personifies all that is best about the great British outdoors. A contemporary interpretation of the two brands’ traditional values, the collection adds the finishing touch to a modern lifestyle. Traditional country detailing is married with technical modern touches and ergonomically shaped fit for comfort while driving. Trademark quilted and waxed men’s and women’s jackets are complemented with luxurious woollen knits, accessories and matching luggage. A shared understanding of how style and functionality work together has resulted in sophisticated, reliable clothing and accessories. The collection launches in August 2014, and is available through Barbour stores and online. From September 2014, you will be able to buy the Barbour for Land Rover Collection through Land Rover Experience Centres and the Land Rover Shop online.
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Got game? This senso equipped basketball w the judge of that!
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94Fifty Smart Sensor Basket
“Ball don’t lie,” Rasheed Wallace famously said during a basketball game once. Stick nine sensors in that same basketball, though, and you can really find out the truth about your game. That’s the idea behind the 94Fifty Smart Sensor basketball, developed by InfoMotion Sports Technologies. The ball 14 bucks the current FitTech > trend in which people wear sensors on their wrist or elsewhere on their body to record exercise data, moving those sensors to the equipment itself. What the 94Fifty can tell you is whether your basketball shot has too much arc or if you’re dribbling the ball with the wrong amount of force. The sensors in the basketball use of point-of-force technology to record data about your shot and your dribble, beaming it via Bluetooth LE to a nearby mobile device running the 94Fifty app. The goal is to teach muscle memory: Shoot or dribble the ball consistently in one of 94Fifty’s timed drills, and you’ll be able to repeat that action on the court.
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