http://climbers.net/blog/ Climbing photography & Web site design. weekly 3 2010-03-12T14:59+00:00 2010-03-12T14:59+00:00 Copyright (c) 2012 Climbers.net Climbers.net (mailto:webmaster@climbers.net) http://climbers.net/blog/Andy-Cave-in-Buxton-April-24th Nick Smith 2010-03-12T14:59+00:00 Renowned mountaineer, author and public speaker Andy Cave is appearing at the Buxton Pavilion Gardens at 11am on April 24th 2010, supporting the launch of a new recreation strategy from the Peak District National Park Authority. They are using a photograph of Andy climbing on Stanage that I took... http://climbers.net/blog/BMC-Froggatt-guide-free-download Nick Smith 2010-02-11T08:07+00:00 Yes, the "long awaited" new guidebook from the BMC may soon be available! No, honestly. It's nearly finished (apparently), and to prove it, the BMC have got a preview of the Gardom's Edge chapter as a free download on their website :) The exciting news from my point of view is just how many... http://climbers.net/blog/Celebrating-10-years-of-UKClimbing Nick Smith 2009-06-29T13:59+01:00 Today marks 10 years for Climbers.net doing all technical development on the most popular climbing website in the world, UKClimbing.com. Any large website is naturally a team effort, and UKC in 2009 is a far more professional affair, with top quality news, reviews & articles, well supported by... http://climbers.net/blog/Starting-hill-training Nick Smith 2009-06-22T20:14+01:00 Well I'm now just over 3 months away from the Nine Edges endurance race in September, and it is time to start doing some proper "training"! I've spent the last few months slowly building up some basic fitness, running 3-4 times most weeks, but without any particular plan. I think my biggest... http://climbers.net/blog/Using-a-Content-Delivery-Network Nick Smith 2009-05-01T17:35+01:00 UKClimbing.com has just started using a CDN for caching popular static content (mostly JPEG photos). In essence, this distributes our most popular images to Edge servers all over the world, so when you visit a UKC page, the HTML part of the page will load from our central server as normal, but the... http://climbers.net/blog/Great-running-in-April Nick Smith 2009-04-29T17:49+01:00 This month has been one of my best ever for running :) I'm completely psyched for the Nine Edges endurance race in September, and I've been really ramping up my weekly mileage in preparation for it. In February I only ran 15 km, in March this was up to 88 km and April I ran 136 km (!) This is... http://climbers.net/blog/Inov8-Roclite-315-running-shoes Nick Smith 2009-04-10T18:46+01:00 Last week I bought a new pair of trail running shoes, as my current pair are quite heavy and don't give much grip when it is muddy or wet. It's been raining constantly for the last 24 hours, so it was the perfect opportunity to try out the new shoes in the mud! I deliberately did a very short... http://climbers.net/blog/Video-content-from-Jagged-Globe Nick Smith 2009-03-12T09:32+00:00 The latest update to the Jagged Globe website is a series of short films introducing some of their mountaineering expeditions & courses. Rather than using a local database of video clips, or manually embedding HTML for videos into the pages, we're using an API provided by Vimeo.com to... http://climbers.net/blog/Nine-Edges-endurance-race-for-Mountain-Rescue Nick Smith 2009-02-04T08:43+00:00 I'm running the Nine Edges Endurance race at the end of September 2009. It's a 20 mile off road event, taking in some of the best gritstone climbing in the Peak District. Entrants have a choice to walk, run, or mountain bike the route, and you can optionally climb a route on each of the 9... http://climbers.net/blog/New-ROCKFAX-Western-Grit Nick Smith 2009-01-06T14:56+00:00 Due for publication in April 2009 is the new ROCKFAX guidebook to Western Grit. A major upgrade to the award-winning 2003 edition, it ranges from the popular Staffordshire gritstone edges of the Roaches, Hen Cloud and Ramshaw up onto the remote Kinder and Bleaklow moorland crags. Also contained are... http://climbers.net/blog/For-Sale-Lots-of-Canon-SLR-camera-gear Nick Smith 2008-12-12T17:57+00:00 Everything I'm selling here is in superb condition, with no faults or optical marks or scratches. Each item comes in original boxes, with manuals, and any original leads, software, etc. I've had excellent results with the equipment, but I'm selling it all to fund the purchase of my next camera... http://climbers.net/blog/Great-run-in-the-wind-rain Nick Smith 2008-12-04T13:58+00:00 I was dragged out this morning in the freezing cold and driving rain to Firbeck village, just North of Worksop. My running partner, Alicia, has been running sections of the Rowbotham's Round Rotherham International Trail Event in preparation for running this 50 mile race in a couple of weeks time.... http://climbers.net/blog/Second-ascent-of-The-Groove-at-Cratcliffe-Tor Nick Smith 2008-11-22T21:35+00:00 While out photographing some friends bouldering at Cratcliffe Tor, I was lucky enough to see visiting American Kevin Jorgeson doing the 2nd ascent of the breathtaking route The Groove. Originally climbed by James Pearson, he graded it E10 but has since suggested it is actually E11 (!) Kevin... http://climbers.net/blog/Mystery-guidebook-cover Nick Smith 2008-11-13T15:05+00:00 I received some exciting news today that a major new guidebook may well be using one of my photos on the front cover! :) I got a front cover shot last year for one of the ROCKFAX Pokketz guides, but if it happens, this would be my first full-size guidebook cover. The guidebook will be out in... http://climbers.net/blog/Forums-search-on-UKClimbing Nick Smith 2008-11-10T08:55+00:00 UKClimbing.com has always had a very efficient and fast design, but as the popular forums have got more and more busy, the database behind the forums has grown to over 3 million messages and 2Gb+ of data. We recently split the database into more manageable chunks - most activity is done on...