![]() The two had climbed the 600-foot Regular Route (5.9+). Phillip Bay and Brian Degenhardt were on top of Higher Cathedral Spire when they witnessed this fearsome act of nature. Outside+ members receive other valuable benefits including a Gaia GPS Premium membership. ![]() Sign up for an Outside+ membership and you get unlimited access to thousands of stories, videos and articles on and, plus you’ll get a print subscription to Climbing and receive our annual coffee-table edition of Ascent. Learn more and join a cleanup at UBB’s Join A Cleanup page.Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! UBB also encourages volunteers and partners to track and report findings at /data-card-submission. ![]() 10, United by Blue is encouraging customers, employees, and volunteers everywhere to take part in its sixth annual Blue Friday DIY Cleanup Campaign. (Photo/Stephen Shelesky for Blizzard Tecnica)įorget Black Friday. Learn more and apply at Blizzard Tecnica’s W2W Education Scholarship page. Blizzard Tecnica will announce recipients in January 2022. Now in its second year, the Blizzard Tecnica W2W program “aims to empower women through their passion for mountain sports.” In addition to scoring a pair of Blizzard skis and Tecnica boots, winners will receive financial support for coursework and certification opportunities in avalanche safety, ski instruction, outdoor guiding, health/wellness, and other areas within snow sports. Boulet began her career at GU in 1999, left to pursue her professional running career, and then returned in 2013 as GU’s Vice President.īlizzard Tecnica is seeking applicants for the 2022 Women2Women Education Scholarship. “Magda fully embodies the GU spirit and we couldn’t be more excited about her promotion,” wrote GU. Olympian, World Cross Country bronze medal champion, and marathon runner Magdalena Boulet has been promoted to President of GU Labs. High winds and a powerline sparked the fire the morning of Nov. Larimer County and USFS firefighters battled the Kruger Rock Fire southeast of Estes Park. Forest Service and Larimer County officials declared the fire 60% contained and had lifted all evacuation orders. Later investigations revealed high winds had blown a tree into a nearby powerline, igniting the burn. local time 12 hours later, the fire had consumed 133 acres and was 15% contained. The Kruger Rock Fire was first reported on Nov. The pilot of the single-engine air tanker was dispatched to the area Tuesday evening on a first-of-its-kind nighttime aerial mission. 20 (photo/Bryon Powell for iRunFar)Īn unseasonably late forest fire claimed the life of an aerial firefighter and thrashed a community near Estes Park this week. Hillary Allen took women’s top podium at the 2021 Madeira Island Ultra-Trail on Nov. Check out iRunFar’s in-depth coverage of this year’s Madeira Island Ultra-Trail, including pre- and post-race interviews with the ultramarathon’s stars. Hillary Allen took her decisive lead just 8.7 miles in, crossing the finish line with 17:18:26 on the clock. Hannes Namberger broke the tape with a baffling time of 14:00:36. Both the men’s and women’s divisions saw a 40-minute spread between first and second finishers. Its course winds up, down, and over 72 miles of the Portugues archipelago and gains 23,000 vertical feet. The 2021 Madeira Island Ultra-Trail took off over the weekend. “This is certainly not a recovery but we’re really optimistic and just really glad that there are monarchs here and that gives us a bit of time to work toward recovery of the Western monarch migration,” Xerces’s endangered species director Sarina Jepsen told AP. A recent report by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation indicates that more than 50,000 monarchs have arrived at overwintering sites, up from just 2,000 this time last year. It’s unclear how long the restoration will last, but the park estimates Tuolumne Meadows will remain shuttered through 2023 or 2024.Ĭalifornia’s monarch butterfly population is on the rebound in a major way. The slough was captured and posted to Facebook by climber Scott Eubank.Īnd Yosemite officials closed three major campgrounds for long-term remedial work: Tuolumne Meadows, Bridalveil Creek, and Crane Flat. The route in question, ‘Plastic Surgery Disaster,’ is a lesser-known, reportedly spicy multi-pitch line.Ĭlimbers familiar with the route believe that the rockfall wiped out a crucial, surfboard-sized flake on the sixth pitch. First, rockfall on the Valley’s iconic El Capitan peak has structurally altered a climbing route. From the inspiring to the tragic, here’s some of what you missed and a few things to look forward to.īig changes in Yosemite this week.
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