Thank you for supporting the 2009 Penn Pull Down Bouldering Competition. As the chalk dust settled we tallied 33 competitors with a large gallery of 50 spectators. The grand prizes included a choice of $50 gift certificates to the Birchrunville Store Café tucked in Lowe Alpine’s Multipitch Pods, a set of quickdraws from Cypher or a Hera hangboard from Etch. EMS raffled off a 45 liter backpack and Red Bull energized our comp by providing unlimited supply of drinks.

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Whooo Hooo.....Go Team!!

Tecnu Extreme/StaphAseptic adventure racing finished the hardest endurance event in the World this morning at 9:03 am in South Dakota. The team finished the 600 mile adventure race with over 126,000 feet of elevation change in 10th place and was the… Continue

Tecnu Extreme/StaphAseptic presses on at the hardest endurance race in the world, the PrimalQuest in South Dakota. Still holding steady in 10th place, the team continues to do well despite having lost 15 hours pushing their bikes after a broken derhailer reduced them to walking early on in the race. Since that time the team has showed extreme determination, and pushed hard having slept 14 hours in over 7 days, worked themselves back into the top ten, and are holding steady. With much of the 600… Continue

Broadcast Details


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Departures is currently playing coast to coast on the Outdoor Life Network every night at 8pm, 11pm and 2am, as well as Sunday nights at 7pm, 10pm and 1am. Ratings for the show have more than doubled between Fall 2008 and Winter 2009. OLN has commissioned the program for a minimum of six years, unlimited plays, beginning March 2008. http://www.oln.ca

Following the success of Departures on OLN, it also started airing in both standard definition and high definition on… Continue

As an up-date- we have set Thermal tabs (temperature sensors about the size of a quarter) into two peregrine falcon eyries and placed two on a cliff face in order to characterize the thermal profile of a wild nest. This is important in that unlike all the “urban” nesting sites, cliff locations only offer thermal regulation through solar activity. This project will provide us with information to describe how the face of the cliff warms up and that energy (heat) is transmitted through the rock to… Continue