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Check out the Dealer Map page in About Us click here to locate your nearest Arc'teryx, FiveTen or Edelweiss dealer. Read more about Bigstone Dealer Location Maps now online

"Every now and again somebody in the climbing world comes up with something truly revolutionary. Ray Jardine did it in the early 1970's with his prototype camming devices. Arc’Teryx have done just done it again with their WARP technology. It’s a simple concept, and one which has no doubt been tried before,... Read more about Rave review of the R320

With the Arc'teryx Autumn/Winter 09 Sales Meeting starting in Vancouver on Sunday, Andy has left the Big Stone office early to meet up with German rep Reiner Kopf to do a few routes in Yosemite before the serious work begins. We haven't heard much from them but the photos show they are having lots of fun and we're... Read more about Andy enjoys Yosemite

"Arc'teryx is aware of and sensitive to the environmental impact of our business practices. We evaluate our processes and continually implement new strategies to improve efficiencies and minimize our ecological footprint." "Arc'teryx designs and constructs products to perform better and last longer. We believe that a... Read more about Arc'teryx Environmental Statement

The Walk Of Life, E12 7a, 48m James Pearson writing on his blog on October 8th noted the following: “ The Walk Of Life is harder than anything I have done or tried before. It is easy to compare it to my own repeats and first ascents including Equilibrium, The Promise, and The Groove (which in hindsight and... Read more about James Pearson: The Walk of Life E12 7a.

I just finished a conversation with one of  the best climbing shoe resole guys in the county, you don’t need to ask who he is,  and  this is what he said.... “I’ve never been asked to resole a 5.10 shoe in another brands rubber, ever,  but I’m regularly asked to resole  other brands shoes in... Read more about FiveTen Rubber

We are all tempted by a bargain, and more often than not we are quite happy with what we have purchased. However, sometimes deals can go bad.   I recently had an Arc'teryx jacket returned to me, which was not the value for money that the customer thought. It would not be an exaggeration to describe the... Read more about When Bargains go Bad

Arc'teryx sponsored athletes John and Anne Arran have just returned from their most adventurous big-wall expedition yet. They climbed the first ever ascent of Amurí tepui in Venezuela up a clean wall near the line of an incredible 600m waterfall which is so off the beaten track it doesn’t even yet have a name! ... Read more about The World's Steepest Big Wall?

A film documenting the 85 days Keith Bradbury spent bouldering in the climbing mecca that is Fontainebleau, France. Problems ranging from 7A+ to 8B are featured, so something for (nearly) everybody. "It’s finally finished. My random assortment of footage has been put together in a true “will it... Read more about L'Etranger - 85 Days in Font

Checkout this great video of one of our sponsored climbers: Ned Feehally on Neverland, 8A, Bas Cuvier, Fontainbleau. Neverland, 8A from pascal brown on Vimeo. Read more about Ned Feehally on Neverland, Font.