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Why Whitewater Courses (Part 2): What Next? Build a Park?

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By John Davis, President, C6K, Inc.
Remember in the first article I had just had my first whitewater experience. So, there I sat on the café terrace overlooking the whitewater park. I was reliving the thrill of that first big drop and all of the subsequent dangers that were thrown in our faces. […]

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Exploring the Old Man Stump: Franconia Notch - Expedition 2

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By Edge Mugga, for Edge Ascension LLC, as told by Edwin Mudge and Carol Jens.

One of the last images of the Old Man of the Mountain taken just before its fall, this image was taken by Jeffrey Joseph on April 26th of 2003.
On September 10th 2008, we undertook our second expedition into Franconia Notch State […]

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New Hampshire Proposal to Rebuild The Old Man of the Mountain: HB 192

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Edge Mugga
There is a tremendous amount of mis-information regarding the issues surrounding rebuilding the Old Man Of the Mountain, as can be seen by the reaction to a recent article in the Manchester Union Leader. This article will attempt to dispell some of the misconceptions and misunderstandings being floated about.

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Exploring the Old Man Stump: Franconia Notch - Expedition 1

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The Fallen
An Etching by Robert Viana (Printmaker, Painter - Artist).
Image courtesy of RobertViana.com
The Old Man of the Mountain was a geological artifact that hung on the side of a prominent cliff at Franconia Notch on Cannon Mountain. When viewed from the side, this prominence presented the appearance of an old man’s face in […]

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Why Whitewater Courses (Part 1): What, me? Whitewater?

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By John Davis, President, C6K, Inc.

Poised on the edge of whitewater at Reno’s Truckee Park.

You’re sitting in a raft with 5 other intrepid souls paddling towards an ever increasing roar. You feel the air cool; you notice a change in the water from still to nervous. You look downriver and see just the tips of […]

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Edge Ascension Offers Certified PowerQuick — the first battery-powered ascender for use at heights

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Edge Ascension LLC is marketing the certified PowerQuick ascender product line to qualified customers in the construction, maintenance, and inspection industries in US and international markets. Not to mention the protective services industry, such as military, police, fire, rescue, and etc. And there are the movie, theater, and entertainment industries as well. The […]

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The Consequences of Faulty Risk Mediation

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By Edge Mugga
Edge Ascension’s tag line is “Climb safe.”
We extol all to climb safe, and we seek to encourage companies and individuals involved in climbing related activities to be objective about what they are doing, to fully understand the consequences of their actions, and to act accordingly. It is a well known fact that […]

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New Ascender Styles, New On-Board Battery Introduced

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A message from
Cathy Jacobson

CEO of PowerQuick, Inc.

Customers from around the world have conducted trials pitting PowerQuick head-to-head against other technologies and in every case we have come out on top. The PowerQuick Ascender has proved far superior in performance and (even more importantly) safety than any copy-cat technology competitors are trying to introduce and […]

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