Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!Here are the photos of my ipod nano with the ShieldZone protecter. As you can see or maybe cant, it is completely invisible. I’m enjoying it more and more everyday[...] Read More »

At just 10 yrs old, Jordan Romero, is the youngest known person to have walked to the top of Kilimanjaro. Jordan is on a quest to be the younngest person in the world to climb to 7 summits. At 4:15 p.m. on July 23rd, young mountaineer, Jordan Romero, made history by reaching the summit of Mt. Kilim[...] Read More »

Received my ShieldZone for my nano last week. This is a new Sheild to protect your nano from all those scratches it so often gets. As you can see above it comes with the pieces already cut to size ready to stick down. First you peel away the protecter from the material its on and then you spray it [...] Read More »

This is absolutely incredible. Valeri Rozov has many other accomplishments to his name having won Russia’s, Europe’s and World’s championships in parachuting. He has been driving along the Russian extreme B.A.S.E. climbing project. The acronym B.A.S.E. stands for Buildings, Antenn[...] Read More »

Hi readers, sorry about my lack of writing over the past month I was in France for the MCI Alpine meet and then when i got back i’ve had problems with my internet ever since. But I’m back now and should be able to keep you more updated from now on. Well first of all i’d like to th[...] Read More »

For those of you wondering why the lack of new posts, don’t be alarmed we havn’t gone dead. Robin is currently in New Zealand with limited access to internet, Eoin is off on a mountain somewhere and I’ve been in the process of moving to the states from Switzerland to my new college[...] Read More »

With the emergence of blogs, Flickr, and photocasting its never been easier to share photos of your journey’s with friends and family than ever before. Although if you are one to get a little rugged you probably need a camera that will take a betting as much as you can. Enter GoPro Digital He[...] Read More »

Is it the Marie Celeste or perhaps a photograph of Endurance taken during Shakleton’s ill-fated Antartic expedition? In fact its a shot of the Jeanie Johnston taken on Wednesday night (July 19th) as we returned to Howth from the mid-week dive. Read on at the Portmarnock Sub Aqua Club websit[...] Read More »

It seems like Sony is jumping on the band wagon of fitness + music hybrid tech with the release of the Walkman-pedometer mix (or a Walkometer) NW-S203F and NW-S205F. The two versions are silver and black and 1gb and 2gb respectivly. It sports an interesting cigar shape, metal construction, water re[...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up I even managed a dip this morning! [...] Read More »

SCI FI Tech Reports Samsung released its rugged sports camcorder — an extremely compact model that shoots basic, e-mailable video — over a year ago. Its coolest feature was the remote lens unit, which you could mount separately to anything you wanted, letting you capture those ready-f[...] Read More »

Bren (previously on Geared Up) has just sent me his course dates for 2006. Looks good! — Hi folks, Here are course dates for the remainder of 2006 and for 2007 theres plenty to suit everyone. All courses are run by Bren Whelan, who is a full Mountain Instructors Certificate (MIC)holder. Cli[...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up (Howth SAR Demo) RTE News report: Two men were rescued off the Co Kerry coast last night following an accident involving a jet-ski. The men had left Rossbeigh Beach earlier in the evening and the alarm was raised when their jet-ski was seen to capsize. Both spent over an hour in[...] Read More »

Eiger Monch & Jungfrau, Winter 04 (Photo by Geared Up) SuperClimb report: A massive chunk of Alpine mountain fell from one of Switzerland’s most famous peaks, an event largely expected after days of warnings from scientists regarding rock loosened by melting glacial ice. In a thundering[...] Read More »

The ‘Kruse GPS tour system‘ looks great. I’m very tempted to test & review one on our trip to New Zealand (flying-out this Saturday!). The KRUSE® System, through clever use of GPS technology, will automatically provide you with informative and entertaining audio comment[...] Read More »

RTE News - Sunbathers urged to use plenty of sun cream Emer O’Kane of the Irish Cancer Society said many people were not getting enough protection from the sun. She said that an amount of sun cream the size of a golf ball should be used on each application. Size of a GOLF BALL???!! I’m [...] Read More »