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Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting! EDITOR (Geared Up Blog) - Well it’s time for me to say thank you to my authors - Eoin and Alex, and wow how we’ve come on in leaps and bounds within 12 mont[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - A satellite image from NASA shows the Ayles Ice Shelf (center) breaking off Canada’s Ellesmere Island in the Arctic on August 13, 2005. The National Geographic have announced today that the whole floating island only 800km from the North Pole has disintegrated. ̶[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - I did a university project designing a handset for an elderly user, now I see a company have released one for kids. And it’s super. Check out the Mobiles2Go - i-Kids. It contains a GPS receiver so… A one-touch emergency button allows your child to alert you imm[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Aside from my eagerness to get over to Asia to help do some volunteer work (that or Dog Sledding in Norway, I really do want to get to Antarctica. I would give close to anything to get offered a 6 month stint in their labs down there doing anything either field tech or com[...] Read More »

NEW YORK (Geared Up Blog) - Finally its here. The full review I promised of the Nike + iPod sports kit. And I have to say, it was worth the wait. This is by far the best add-on you can buy for your iPod Nano, hands down. I know thats a bold statement but for the price and the features it has it trul[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - It’s being reported on BBC NEWS tonight that nine people from a kayak club had to be rescued after their kayaks capsized off Land’s End in Cornwall. A Royal Navy helicopter and two lifeboats were involved in the rescue, between Land’s End and Sennen Cove.[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - It’s being reported by BBC NEWS that a helicopter has ditched in the Irish Sea. Six bodies have been recovered from the sea after a helicopter crashed off Morecambe Bay in Lancashire. A rescue operation was launched after the Eurocopter AS365N carrying seven people c[...] Read More »

SUSSEX (Geared Up Blog) - Press play above. Sitting here in Sussex in the UK celebrating Christmas with family. Tonight I watched Challenge Anneka returns for a Christmas Special on TV, the second I heard the theme tune memories flooded back of how much I used to love that show. Not to mention wh[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - I’m really confused with this new fabric. I always thought that the definition of a soft shell was a garment with a fabric such as pertex which is more breathable than gore-tex but it doesnt offer you a fully waterproof shell. As you can see from above it has that me[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Ok so we’re not a Rugby Blog, but we are an adventure one, and if playing Heineken Cup Rugby in bright red girlie panties isn’t adventurous enough for you, then I don’t know what is. Last weekend the great Donnacha O’Callaghan of Munster, Ireland - t[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Reuters.co.uk has video footage of the ongoing rescue in Oregon, U.S. This morning they’ve discovered a body in a dugout snow cave. Three climbers are missing having set out on a winter route up Mt Hood and were last tracked by mobile phone signal to 300m from the su[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Outsider, the irish outdoor magazine have launched their new site. I must say that i’m fairly impressed by it. The clear layout on the homepage does make it really easy to get to where you want to go when you can easily search by th topic or area you are most interest[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - AJ Hakett who completed the first ever modern bungy (from the Eiffel Tower) has just done the highest ever commercial jump, 233m off the Macau Tower in China. Read it in the Sydney Herald. Hackett, now 48, left school at 15 to become an apprentice carpenter-joiner. An avid[...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - These things always seem to come around all at once. This trip is to l’Argentière la Bessée from the 10th-14th of January for the Ecrin Ice Climbing Meet 2007. The closing date for this trip is Tuesday the 19th of December. I was around the area over the past [...] Read More »

DUBLIN (Geared Up Blog) - Seems to me that they are publicising this trip a bit late but they are getting done eventually. A partially funded trip to Aviemore, Scotland this winter from the 23rd Feb to the 2nd of March for the BMC/MCofS International Winter Meet 2007 is one i’d really like to[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - The Irish River Nomads team are on a kayak tour of New Zealand. I went to the same Dublin university as ‘Kipper’, great to see people really getting out there and doing stuff. These guys make up allot of the Irish white water freestyle team, and their white wat[...] Read More »