MbPost.com -- It's SP for Mountain Biking!
Calling all mountain bikers! MbPost.com is SP's first sister site. Like SP, it is a collaborative content community, but it is focused on mountain biking instead of climbing.
This site is in its infancy right now, so many popular areas and trails are still "open". The site is built using the same core code as SP, so you'll instantly feel right at home with the navigation and features.
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 Ogre as seen by Doug Scott
Mar 7, 2010 5:47 AM by Mihai Tanase
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 Klein Matterhorn (Piccolo Cervino)
Mar 16, 2010 6:41 AM by Antonio Giani
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Eiger – A trip on the knife edge (TR & Movie)
by hansw
I stopped at a gas station and bought batteries for my headlamp. It was a beautiful morning this last day of July in 1996 as I drove eastward along the Rhone valley. The wife and the two teenage daughters were swimming in the thermal baths up in the spa village Leukerbad where the family was on holiday. The extent of my two days expedition was by no means clear to the ladies. I was on my way to climb the Eiger.
The higher I drove the darker the sky became. When I passed the Grimsel Pass at 2165 meters large raindrops hit the windshield. My goal was the little mountain village Grindelwald, located in the Swiss canton Bernese Oberland. The plan was on and I had passed the point of no return.
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An 18 Hour Day On Eldorado Peak
by gimpilator
Inspired by Steph Abegg's recent trip report, EastKing and I started discussing the possibility of heading up to Eldorado ourselves to give the mountain our best shot. Eldorado has been on my to do list for a few years now but I've felt a little trepidation about that famous knife edge finish to the summit. Seeing Steph's photograph of the unusually wide east ridge settled things in my mind. I wanted to climb this peak while the upper reaches were covered in fresh snow. We decided If we got another break in the weather. Eldorado would be our goal. We hoped to do this trip the last weekend in February but with increasing avalanche danger we went to North Chiwaukum and Middle Chiwaukum instead. Fortunately, the following weekend provided the weather we had hoped for and also very low avalanche danger. Leaving my house at 1130pm Friday night, we drove to the trailhead. I knew that most people did Eldorado as a two day climb to break up the 6700+ feet of vertical gain. But I felt confident that with an early enough start, we could do it in a day. There would be six of us making two rope teams of 3 for crossing the Eldorado Glacier and the Inspiration Glacier.
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A walk with Doug
by Mihai Tanase
When Doug Scott photographed his rope partner, Dougal Haston, upon reaching Everest, on 24 September 1975, it was around 6 pm. The two had just successfully completed the South-Western face of the grand mountain. Not a talented photographer, Dougal also managed to take a picture of Doug near the famous tripod indicating the end of the vertical world. A few minutes later, the two descended and bivouacked near the Southern tip. The picture of Dougal was used as cover of the book written by the future Sir of the British Empire Chris Bonington: Everest, the hard way.
My story is much simpler, almost insignificant. But recently it stirred my memories. I breathlessly read Bonington's book in the late '70s, when it was also translated into French. Two decades later, in May '90, this book, like many other mountain books which made up my library at the time, landed in the library of an old acquaintance of mine in Sibiu.
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Featured Articles
Cooking in the Mountains
by Deltaoperator17
Cooking in the mountains boils down (good pun) to preparing at home, well prepared! With the right planning you can have food in the backcountry that is better than most people get at a restaurant.
If you can boil water, you can re-heat some wonderful home-prepared meals that will lift your spirits and leave you satisfied. But not all backcountry cookery is easy. To make the difference obvious, we have assigned the following difficulty or (Class) ratings:
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Trekking in Pakistan
by Afzal
Pakistan is a dreamland for trekkers and hikers. Most of the trekking routes situated in the Mountain Ranges of Karakoram, Western Himalayas, and Hindukush. The best trekking season is between May to end of October each year.
Situated in the heart of the South Asian sub-continent, it is a country with rich history and cultural tradition, captivating in its own right. Pakistan is situated between 24.5 and 36.75 degree north latitude and 61 and 75.5 degree east longitude. It is bordered by China in the North, Afghanistan and Iran in the West and India in the East. Arabian Sea lies to its South with 1000 kilometers long coastline with fascinating beaches. Pakistan is linked with China through land by Karakoram Highway along the great Silk Route while it is linked with India by air, rail and road. Iran and Afghanistan are linked with Pakistan by air and road.
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Summitpost Bulk Uploader
by mvs
I love Summitpost. But individually uploading 10-15 images for a trip report was getting old. Sites like Flickr offer several nice ways to quickly upload your images, and even extract title and description from embedded metadata! So I started to use that. At the same time I felt bad because then my images aren't on Summitpost for mix-n-match inclusion in Mountain, Area or Route pages by other authors.
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