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WTF Wal-Mart ad in Climbing Mag!!!

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Todd W. B. · · Fort Collins, CO · Joined Aug 2012 · Points: 0

Back cover full page ad!! The mag's been going downhill fast for a while - is this their last gasp at life??!

Tug · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2007 · Points: 0

Ooooohhhhhnnnnnoooooozzzzzzz!!!!!!!

S Denny · · Aspen, CO · Joined Sep 2008 · Points: 20

pics or shens

Marathon · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 275

Save money live better. I love that store

Jesse Newton · · catskills · Joined Dec 2011 · Points: 145

rollback!!

Meme Guy · · Land of Runout Slab · Joined Sep 2013 · Points: 325

Walmart is the essence of america.

Jeffrey Arthur · · Westminster, CO · Joined Mar 2008 · Points: 290

People gotta eat. My last count was 62 pages for Climbing magazine down from 192 back in 1998. Every time I pick up that magazine they lose another 10 pages. It sucks because I actually like picking up a magazine and reading it cover to cover when I'm catching a flight.

Chip Phillips · · Broomfield, CO · Joined May 2001 · Points: 1,655

I picked up the latest Climbing at DIA on November 27th. Didn't count the pages, but it was approximately the size of a Mountain Gear catalog. Hope they can salvage something, but it appears the end is near.

CO_Michael · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2008 · Points: 956

For the first time in 20+ years of climbing and magazines I will not be renewing my subscriptions to Rock and Ice and Climbing.

I just did the math too on pages of content vs adds. The value has totally disappeared.

Time for all digital. There really isn't any news or trip reports or other content that I can't find already on the internet.

I will keep getting Alpinist. I like printed books and publications but they have to have some value.

Stephen Burns · · Telluride, CO · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 25

last I checked walmarts are the urban campsites for dirtbag climbers. Perhaps it's their way of welcoming us to the corners of their parking lots.

Meme Guy · · Land of Runout Slab · Joined Sep 2013 · Points: 325
Stephen Burns wrote:last I checked walmarts are the urban campsites for dirtbag climbers. Perhaps it's their way of welcoming us to the corners of their parking lots.
Haha! Right u r!
20 kN · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2009 · Points: 1,346

Like Wal-Mart needs to advertise. Just ask these people how much Wal-Mart needs to advertise:

youtube.com/watch?v=QWVV__V…

Maybe the Mart should advertise how they pay minimum wadge to most of their employees, and how they only hire part-time workers to circumvent the need to pay for benefits like healthcare. That way the tax payers, AKA Wal-Mart's customers, can pick up the tab when Mart employees have to purchase heavily subsidized healthcare, food stamps and other welfare products.

RockinOut · · NY, NY · Joined May 2010 · Points: 100

Whats wrong with a walmart ad on the back cover? The magazine is a business and needs to make money. I'm willing to bet they paid top dollar for that ad.

Plus what dirt bag climber hasn't gone to walmart? Whats with the hate of walmart and climbing? I don't see a connection….

Ope · · NFA · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 0

Interesting documentry. deathbychina.com We don't support Walmart, buy Made In USA or Canada or......when possible! Support local workers/manufacturing.
Ope.

j mo · · n az · Joined Jan 2009 · Points: 1,180

Rock and ice is still readable. Climbing isn't - didn't renew. There is no content.

Locker · · Yucca Valley, CA · Joined Oct 2002 · Points: 2,349

Thanks to the whitebreading of climbing, real soon you'll be hearing:

"Blue light special!!! Sale on rock climbing gear, isle five"

Kevin DB · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 295

I don't know a single dirtbag climber who hasn't slept in a Wal-Mart parking lot at some point in their life. Not everyone is a food snob with an expensive budget.

Nate Reno · · Highlands Ranch, CO · Joined Oct 2008 · Points: 156
20 kN wrote:Like Wal-Mart needs to advertise. Just ask these people how much Wal-Mart needs to advertise: Maybe the Mart should advertise how they pay minimum wadge to most of their employees, and how they only hire part-time workers to circumvent the need to pay for benefits like healthcare. That way the tax payers, AKA Wal-Mart's customers, can pick up the tab when Mart employees have to purchase heavily subsidized healthcare, food stamps and other welfare products.
But wal-mart advertises how good they are to their employees!

youtube.com/watch?v=CCtd1jj…
Brian Prince · · reno · Joined Mar 2010 · Points: 2,727

Yeah, I'm thankful to sleep in their parking lot and 'live better' :)

I think the point we should focus on is that Climbing is pretty pathetic. I love reading old issues. I really don't think it's the internet that's changed things because I can't find many online articles that compare to great ones/photos in most all of the older issues. And it's not like Climbing posts anything original online anyway.

Worthy routes are still being done, as seen in the AAJ so I don't get it. More instruction/beginner geared I guess as evidenced by the 'how to rappel' article on the last page of a recent issue instead of some cool parting shot or something.

Edit: and I take some back, after a bit of internet surfing, Climbing does have some cool stuff on its website :)

Chris Horton · · St. George, UT · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 327

I'm not mad at Walmart, they've always been dicks, I'm mad at Climbing. It used to be something to look forward to, something that would inspire me. I would spend money I didn't have on it back in the day.

I still have a few stacks of Climbing from the 90's/2000's that are still interesting to read. I received the latest issue Saturday, it was in the trash within 30 minutes.

Shit! That makes me sound old and bitter. No matter, it's still crap.

Ryan Nevius · · Perchtoldsdorf, AT · Joined Dec 2010 · Points: 1,837
Kevin DB wrote:I don't know a single dirtbag climber who hasn't slept in a Wal-Mart parking lot at some point in their life. Not everyone is a food snob with an expensive budget.
Why would you ever to this, when there are so many better (and equally inexpensive) places to bivvy?
Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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