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SEMA Mountain Rescue Vehicle - Subaru Creates Ultimate Off-Road Forester

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Snocator - An iPhone Ski Application with built in GPS Piste Trail tracking.

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A great helmet cam video - Extreme mountain biking (Scotland).

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Kitesurfing over a whale - Telegraph Picture of the day

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Zac Sunderland - 16 year old lone teen sailor is almost halfway around world

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Out.

-Robin

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Skydiving over Everest….

“This will be the most important event in the Himalayan adventure since 1953,” said Nigel Gifford

I think NOT!

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Picture of the week!. “Furope no taki” and is still unclimbed.

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How to poop in the woods. Useful tips!

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More climbing blogs than you can shake a cliff face at. Climbing Blog Directory.

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Nike shoes with GPS and Sole thickness sensors.

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Why you should always wear a helmet cycling.

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Dublin out!

-Robin.

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Winter is coming… Dot Gloves makes these liners that come embedded with metal buttons in the fingertips to make texting and cell phone operation easy in the snow. Cool.

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The Speed Vest is a giant speedometer on your back that lets all the drivers behind you know that you’re a huge nerd.

The Speed Vest is a giant speedometer on your back that lets all the drivers behind you know that you’re a huge nerd. It also cues them in that you’re probably a computer engineer and make pretty good money, so if they hit your ass you’ll be able to afford a real lawyer to litigate. At the very least, it helps cars measure how accurate their dashboard speedometers are.

I love this!

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For all those big expedition power needs! The Solar Stik portable solar array system looks pretty cool. It folds up into a set of smallish packages which are semi hand portable (100+ lbs) and can be erected in around 10 minutes.

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Allclimbing has launched Climbingvibe.com

The main goals of ClimbingVibe are to make it easier for climbers to find quality posts and to promote the best climbing writing on the internet.

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And finally - love this video from REI staff: GREAT STUFF!

via Adventure Blog

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Dublin out.

-Robin.

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Damn, we’re like a tabloid these days! Here a picture of the “phallic iceberg” taken in Brandsfield Strait, Antarctica.

Is this a message from our gods to all the people that don’t believe in global warming…

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Mark Scanlon’s World Record for the youngest 7-7-7 was disputed. We’ve seen a copy of the certificate, the world record is held by Tim Harris.

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Galway Fire Brigade are the slowest to respond in the country. Sounds like they need Decisions For Heroes! Disclaimer: I’m involved with it.

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A bike stand that works as a pump. Cool stuff.

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I found some new wheels for the next Tango & Cash adventure. Check out some of these bikes!

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Out.

-Robin.

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The Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team have opened their first dedicated Mountain Rescue Post in County Wicklow. Fantastic!

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Patagonia have a fantastic website ‘The Tin Shed‘

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Dave Boyd’s body was recovered in the Sangre de Cristo mountains early Thursday morning. A sad loss for adventure racing around the world. via Avril. Gallery in tribute here.

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Out.

-Robin.

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Alan sent us a link to BBC News presenters describing how the dramatic jump unfolded when Base-jumper Hans Lange chute failed. Yes, there’s a video :-)

This has just beaten number 1 on our Top 5 Base Jumping Accidents videos page!

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Thanks to Fergal who snapped this photo of the Not The Sunday Run van camped up in Howth, Dublin overnight.

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Hiring a camper in Australia or New Zealand? My website Find Me A Camper is live again after being offline a while. Looking for a tent? We do those too.

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Photos of building a surfboard in a hotel room in Taiwan - while waiting on a work visa! Great! Via Goat feed.

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And finally! I’m already looking at booking my skiing this winter, where to go?! Take a look at “CLAIM - The Greatest Ski Movie Ever Produced”. No really - it looks very cool and funny. (via GO Blog).

matchstick productions claim trailer from www.getoutdoors.com on Vimeo.

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Robin out.

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Unreal photo:

Follow the rabbit tracks. BAM! The tracks suddenly end where the wing prints of an owl start. This picture was taken by a friend of a friend who teaches in Bethel,Alaska. Photo by Susan Barstow.

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Latets issue of ‘callout’ Irish Mountain Rescue Magazine

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This blog is very weird. But they linekd to us!

My name is Bjorn.

I am a Librarian. I love the Internet and Information. However, I go outdoors whenever I can. My favorite outdoor activities are surfing and Romantic Camping.

I am excited to share all I know about creating the perfect Romantic Camping experience. I hope you are excited too…

Ohhh I’m real excited Bjorn.

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Ireland’s got some new Sports Medics on call.

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Some photos of the deepest caves in the world.

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Now I’m off and out to the British Interactive Media Association spring party. Talk tomorrow :-)

-Robin.

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Here’s some more of these flying maniacs in wingsuits, this guy is known as “The Dude” (full post coming tomorrow on landing without a parachute (thanks to reader tipoff). These videos are incredible. Absolutely incredible.

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Follow Tango & Cash the NI MTB Boys in their latest adventure, To Err-igal is Human.

The mighty Mount Errigal, County Donegal. Basically a big 750-metre-high wobbly peat trifle with granite crushed nuts on top. We always wanted to have a crack at it on/with the bikes, so we departed Antrim at 5:40am on Saturday 15 December 2007, to climb the mountain.

We knew it was a carry to the top, so we padded the top- and down-tubes with pipe lagging from B&Q. It’s a good idea if you are going to be carrying for a long period.

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MS “Beluga SkySails” is the worlds first tanker to be towed by kite. The kite is 160m sq.

Ship christening of the worldwide first cargo ship with SkySails-System took place at the Hamburger Landungsbrücken/Überseebrücke on December 15th, 2007 – Milestone regarding the use of environmentally sound propulsion technologies at sea.

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The Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival starts tonight in Switzerland. Love that event. Above is one of my photos from 2004 when I watched Ines Papart win first place.

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How not to launch an RNLI lifeboat from the beach. The on-shore wind blew this English crew back onto the beach, for a minute it looks like they weren’t going to get away. Massive seas. Watch this video. (Thanks diverman).

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All climbing have a great video of Will Gadd ice climbing icebergs from waterlevel. Massive icebergs too! Iceberg-oldering anyone?

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Adventure Race World Series has been announced in Ireland for June 14-21 2008. Location is South West and more details are available from Jan 11th.

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-Robin-

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I’m fully expecting Tango & Cash to have these new underglow lights on their Mountain Bikes at the next event. Boys, go for blue ones, way cooler.

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GoBlog do it again (we love you guys!) with two great videos. Embedded below.

Combining a ski jump with base jumping off the 39th floor of a tower block. Bizzare!

And a safe way to ice-climb by using 4 ice-axes to do it. Slow you mean! This is very tongue in cheek!

“The climber brings up some very good point, however they are on his crampons and no where else.”

lol

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I’m in the market for a good waterproof headcam, and this kayaking video on The Outsider made me want one even more. Video from Broadbandsports.com.

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The Adventure Blog links to a great post on Mountain World about how to get great expedition photos. I need to sit down and read this in full.

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-Robin

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It’s “Groovy Shoe” time. We got to be careful not to show Eoin these or he’ll be off to Japan to buy a pair of New Balance ‘Trail Busters’. Check out this page of aqua/violet/turquoise/dark-pink/salmon trail running shoes. Thanks to Gráinne for telling us all about these in a this comment.

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THIS SUNDAY (18th Nov)! The “Off Road Duathalon” (Aisling already warned you!) starts at 11:00am in the North Wicklow Mountains, Ireland.

The race will consist of a 2.5k trail run and 12k off road bike and a 2.5k trail run. (Not as easy as it sound’s) The first run starts on a gradual uphill then drops down for 1.2km turn around and straight back up a nice steady climb up to transition, the bike course starts with a downhill on a forest road for just over 1.5km which will give plenty of time to recover from the first run and allow you prepare for the climb back to transition, this lap will be ridden 3 times before pulling back into transition for a quick change back to running shoes and out onto the run course for the final lap.

Contact Rob Cummins www.wheelworxbikes.com and Mike Jordan www.thecycleinn.com

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The Dublin Voyagers Canoe Club are just back from a river expedition in Nepal. Hardcore!

Voyagers is a roof-rack river kayaking club that has operated in the Dublin area for over twenty years.

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Sarunas (DCU Rock Climbing Club - Trips Officer) sent us a mail to say Dave MacLeod has announced on his blog that “To Hell and Back” is now online to watch but in fairly low res.

Follow the journey of Scotland’s top climber Dave MacLeod as he attempts to ascend Hell’s Lum in the Cairngorms.

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And finally, how fantastic is it to have new ‘Guest Posts’ on the scene! Thanks to Stewart Wallace & Rick (of Tango & Cash) for their great posts. I must note that Mr 8a’yton is knocking about in here too these days.
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Phew! Keep ‘em coming!!!

-Robin.