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!DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) It’s the time of year when organised folk start putting together their teams for the Annual Wicklow Way Relay. Talk about a class[...] Read More »

LONDON (Team Geared Up) - This doesn’t look to worrying, once they stay in their kayaks & together. Rafting up here would help a lot if they’ve given in to wait for rescue. Air-sea rescue services are on their way to assist two kayakers who have got into difficulty off the Clare coa[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Apologies that this is way off-topic, but taking these photos yesterday put such a smile on my face! And so, I’m sure any out-going adventurous person will smile too. It may make your Sunday! After 30 minutes… Arrested! Shocking. -Robin- [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - This Irish university project “Improving Armies” video is a little surreal with the Irish accent! Improving Armies is an infomercial spoof for “Marine Enterprises”. Worth a watch. Credit to a mate Paul & group for creating the footage an[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A little late (30 mins of Friday left!), but enjoy! I didn’t realise this guy was a Googler, until a post appeared on the official Google Blog today about their experiences at the North Pole Marathon (won by an Irish runner as reported by Aisling!). Video tra[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Here’s an Irish woman’s climbing meet. More details on climbing.ie forums. May 25th - 28th Venue: Burren, Co. Clare Accommodation - Nagles Campsite. €7 per person per night. There is an area set aside for the Womens Meet. FRIDAY: BBQ at the campsite a[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Spanish climber Iñaki Ochoa de Olza has reached the summit of Dhaulagiri. Meanwhile there is no more news of the 2 Kazakhs attemping going up Everest as we speak. Mr. Ochoa has just Annapurna and Kangchenjunga left to summit. Iñaki topped-out today at 3:00 p[...] Read More »

SERVICE UPDATE (Team Geared Up) - We have added the ability to subscribe to a daily digest of the Team Geared Up Blog by email. This service will send you a single email with a round up of our last 24hrs of stories every lunch time! Click Here To Subscribe To Team Geared Up By Email It’s [...] Read More »

Thanks to Diverman for this tip-off. An S61N in Norway has now departed for its new base in Ireland, being noted en route yesterday refuelling at Aberdeen. We reported on this new full AWSAR (All Weather Search & Rescue) for Ireland back in February. Latest update is: As part of this new cont[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Things happening this weekend that don’t involve sitting on our arses: There’s 3 Irish teams entered for the annual International Mountain Race in Knockdhu, Larne (Northern Ireland). For members of the teams it may be their first time in an Ireland vest a[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) These arrived in the post yesterday: Thanks to the people from this little race in France. I wish I’d known they could look like this: I like pink :-) Anyway I wore them to the IMRA race last night up in Ticknock and they were super light! On the road I can [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - I wonder are these the highest arrests ever made? Although there may be the first summits of the year as Maxut and Vassily, 2 Kazakhs, are making and alpine style ascent from ABC on the North side. Without Oxygen, pre-set camps or any fixed ropes on the higher par[...] Read More »

Rowan sent me on a link to MTBGuru, the work of a friend of his at PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre). This site is for Runners, Mountain Bikers, Road Cyclists, Hikers, Skiers & Mountaineers! You could consider the MTBGuru website as a worldwide directory of outdoor trips or rides; you can crea[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) Fire! Who would have thought that bringing a condom and a water on a trail could give you fire. So who’s gonna be the first to try it? -eoinod- [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Geared Up Eoin’s blogpost about Jungfrau Marathon attracted a comment from Mick of Mick’s Mountain Blogspot. Check out Mick’s novel way of running with the elite of the London Marathon. He seemed to get inspiration from this. when the motorbike c[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Dutch Iceman, Wim Hof, will attempt to climb Mount Everest from the north side this year only wearing shorts on his core body. He will have a hat, gloves, boots and carry his own bag which may add a little bit of protection. Mr. Hof will use his free climbing skil[...] Read More »