Outdoor News Update: Climbing Record & First Ski Resort Opens

Filed in archive Outdoor News on November 7, 2007

Here's the best of the outdoor news I missed.

Huber Bros. Set New Speed Record for El Cap

Nearly fifty years after the first successful climb of the Nose of El Capitan, yosemite National Park, USA, Alexander and Thomas Huber have set a new speed-climbing record of 2hr 45min 45sec on October 8th, 2007. It took Warren J Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore 47 days to ascend the 1000m-high face in 1958, but the two German brothers made the best of a warm autumn to break the previous best time of 2hr 48min 50sec set by Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama in 2006 by over three minutes.

No Trick - Sunday River Open for Halloween

Thanks to a string of cold nights allowing for intensive snowmaking, Sunday River ski resort in Maine will be the first ski area to offer lift serviced skiing and riding in eastern North America for the 2007-2008 ski season.

Eastern Alert: Attitash, Bretton & Sugarloaf Fire Up the Guns

Attitash Ski Resort in Bartlett, New Hampshire fired up the "Big Guns", their newest state-of-the-art fan guns installed over the summer in a $2.5 million snowmaking enhancement project. Monday morning temperatures dipped to 20 degrees allowing for snowmaking to begin for the season. Illusion, Thad's Choice and Spillway trails were the primary targets for the first snowmaking push.