by Randall Chapman | Aug 18, 2021 | Homemade Gear
Back when I owned the old climbing gym in Grand Junction, I had a fun canvas to work with. Previous owners had built some interesting features. They worked with the space they had which often meant building around structural supports and in old office spaces, this led... 
by Randall Chapman | May 12, 2021 | Homemade Gear
Back in 2006 maybe 07 I bought a 1979 GMC Sierra Grande C15, also known as a heavy half ton, truck from a guy at work for $500. At the time I was remodeling a house and I needed a dump run truck to haul lath and plaster and other construction debris. It was a good... 
by Randall Chapman | May 17, 2020 | Homemade Gear
This is part two of this series, for part one go here. Once I picked this project up again and started putting it all together it took me about a month and a half to get it to where I could sleep on it. I had a couple of learning curve moments but everything came... 
by Randall Chapman | Apr 19, 2020 | Homemade Gear
First Ledge: I started putting together my first portaledge several years ago. It was long enough ago that I don’t really remember exactly when but the pictures I have say they were created in April of 09, I’m pretty sure I took them a while after it was built.... 
by Randall Chapman | Jan 18, 2020 | Homemade Gear
If I had to choose between the river and climbing, I don’t think I could. From time to time one becomes more important to me and I focus more energy on one than the other but that flips all the time. I’ve been climbing longer but since I started kayaking in 2009, I’ve... 
by Randall Chapman | Mar 10, 2019 | Homemade Gear
In the training portion of the blog I keep referring to the paint can apparatus and I thought I’d do a quick write up so people following would know what I’m talking about. The term “paint can” comes from when I used to own the climbing gym. I had built a training...