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In-store Services
- Airport Services
Beyond Knightsbridge, Harrods boasts a magnificent nine stores across Heathrow Terminals and Gatwick, each one offering passengers an opulent shopping environment and the chance to take a piece of Harrods luxury on their global travels.
Harrods' fashion department store at T5 is the first of its kind; an emporium dedicated to the world's finest fashion and accessories brands including Cartier, Etro, Salvatore Ferragamo, Zegna, Chloé, Yves Saint Laurent, Victoria Beckham, Max Mara, Valentino, Hackett and Ralph Lauren, to name a few.
The T5 Signature store has its very own Food Hall with an exquisite collection of culinary delights. For long-haul passengers, the Satellite store, with its spectacular Swarovski crystal chandelier, stocks iconic brands such as Mont Blanc and Wedgwood.
T4 hosts two stunning Harrods boutiques selling luxury brands such as Longchamp, Versace, Roberto Cavalli, Alexander Mcqueen, Valentino and Marc By Marc Jacobs. Further Harrods stores can also be found in T1 and T3.
At the North Terminal, Harrods offers a wide collection of accessories by Mulberry, Longchamp, Furla, Monica Vinader, Michael By Michael Kors, Ferragamo, DKNY and Paul Smith. Homewares by Wedgwood and Portmeirion are also available alongside a fine selection of luxury foods.
The South Terminal offers a range of signature items such as fine foods, accessories and Harrods' much-loved annual teddy bear.
- Beauty
Urban Retreat
Urban Retreat is widely acknowledged as the ultimate hair and beauty destination in London.
Situated on the Fifth Floor of Harrods and set within a 20,000 sq. ft space, clients can expect to enjoy luxury treatments and exclusive services from some of the world's finest beauty houses, including Crème de la Mer, La Prairie, and Sisley; receive manicures from award-winning nail technicians and have their hair treated by world-class stylists and colour technicians.
From November, Urban Retreat will be opening The Morocaan Hammam marocMaroc, a female-only wet spa inspired by ancient Moroccan customs and influenced by luxury spa rituals. A truly indulgent experience that is not to be missed.
Complete range of services include:
Urban Retreat, Fifth Floor
+44 20 7893 8333
Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie
The Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie is a truly unique environment, set amongst black lacquer furnishings, mirrors, silks, Lalique crystal and bespoke panels, redolent of the Orient Express. Located in Salon de Parfums on the Sixth Floor, you can immerse yourself in the sensory heaven of fragrance as it should be. History's most coveted perfumes - including one worn by Marie Antoinette herself - can be recreated.
Salon de Parfums, Sixth Floor
+44 20 7893 8797
Salon de Parfums
Salon de Parfums is a destination that features the world's finest and rarest scents alongside exclusive bespoke perfume creation and personalisation services. Located on the Sixth Floor, the destination features 11 boutiques from leading names in perfumery including Roja Dove, Tom Ford, Kilian, Henry Jacques, Creed, Dior, Guerlain, Chanel, Xerjoff, Ex Nihilo, Clive Christian and more, while the fragrance gallery showcases scents from world-exclusive brands such as Dolce & Gabbana's Velvet Collection and Thomas Kosmala.
Shop Salon de Parfums online.
Specialist beauty treatments
All the premium beauty brands in the Cosmetics Hall and a selection in the Colour Hall and the Beauty Apothecary offer facials and one-to-one make-up demonstrations.
Services include Estée Lauder brow shaping, Guerlain fragrance consultations, Bobbi Brown bridal makeovers, MAC professional make-up lessons and Aveda hair consultations.
Cosmetics Hall, Beauty Apothecary and the Colour Hall, Ground Floor
+44 20 7730 1234
- Personal Shopping at Harrods
Harrods' renowned personal shopping team is one of the largest in the world. Our unique service is designed to help you find your personal style. Experts with unlimited access to all eight floors are on hand to offer independent advice and provide inspiration. Whether you're redecorating your home or refreshing your wardrobe, you can sit back and relax while our specially trained team presents a carefully curated edit of Harrods' finest pieces, tailored to your look and lifestyle.
After your initial consultation, your personal shopper will be available for you in person or via phone or email.
For more information or to book an appointment, call +44 (0)20 7893 8000, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
- For Children
Customised baby furniture
Create nursery or toddlers' furniture to your exact specifications, from a fairytale princess bed to a red London phone box wardrobe.
Nursery Furniture, Fourth Floor
+44 20 7730 1234, ext. 8451
Gift baskets
The perfect gift for new mothers: a hand-delivered gift basket from our children's floor, containing a range of baby clothes, skincare products and treats that reflect her taste. Choose from our bibs, jumpsuits and socks, a soft toy and luxurious skincare treatments - or perhaps a celebratory bottle of Champagne.
Baby Shop, Fourth Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 3570
Toy Concierge
An exciting new service where you can discover a new range of exclusive and bespoke products to be enjoyed by children of all ages.
Book an appointment with the Toy Concierge today and treat your loved ones to something special.
Location: Toy Kingdom, Third Floor
Contact details: Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Telephones: 07464492221 / 07342052465
- Customer Collections
Customer Collections
Explore our eight floors in comfort with our complimentary Customer Collections service, which allows you to shop parcel-free. Leave your purchases at any till point and they'll be delivered to our Customer Collection Point on the Ground Floor, ready for you to pick up at your convenience. Ask in-store for more information.
- Corporate
Blending over 100 years of heritage with a dedicated team of corporate consultants and a whole host of cutting-edge gift ideas, Harrods offers an exceptional international gifting service to those who expect excellence as standard. Customer focused from initial ideas to the end result, we supply your business with exquisite, affordable and completely personalised solutions from across the entire store. Whatever your goals, HARRODS CORPORATE SERVICE helps celebrate and motivate people to enhance your business (and brand) significantly.
+44 20 7225 5994
- Fashion & Accessories
Men's made-to-measure
We can make suits to measure from brands such as Canali, Brioni, Armani, Stefano Ricci, Kiton and Corneliani. We also offer a personalised monogram service for shirts and ties.
Men's Tailoring, Ground Floor
+44 20 7730 1234
Commissioned jewellery
Several of our prestige jewellery firms can undertake commissions, using elements of existing jewellery remodelled into a new piece or custom creating a piece from your own design.
Fine Jewellery & Watch Room, Ground Floor
+44 20 7893 8041/2
Watch repairs
We endeavour to make your watch as good as new, from changing batteries or organising a complete service to valuing watches and jewellery, restringing pearls and resizing rings. We also accept commission orders.
Fine Jewellery & Watch Room, Ground Floor
+44 20 7225 5910
Our in-house cobbler offers a wide range of repairs for both men's and women's shoes; from heel tip replacements through to sole replacements, heel re-covering and complete shoe rebuilds. Handbag repair and leather conditioning is also available on request. You can also pick up essential accessories here, including polish and laces.
- Finance & Property
Tax Free Shopping & Export Bureau
When eligible non-EU customers spend £50 or more at Harrods, they can benefit from VAT refunds. You can also arrange to have goods shipped abroad.
Tax Free Shopping, Second Floor
+44 20 7225 5647
Safe Deposit
The Harrods Safe Deposit is a fully secure safe and strong room facility that guarantees complete safety and confidentiality. Personal safes can be rented at a yearly flat rate, from a small box right up to whole strong room.
Safe Deposit, Lower Ground Floor
+44 20 7893 8271
Harrods Bank Ltd
Since 1893, the independently managed, private Harrods Bank has been providing a highly personal service and is committed to providing solutions on a case-by-case basis. Harrods Bank is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority (FRN 204479). The Bank offers a full range of banking services, from current and deposit accounts for individuals or small businesses to a Bureau de Change and Gold Bullion. The Bank also offers a bespoke mortgage and lending service, and understands that our customers are individuals who require a friendly face underpinned by expert knowledge, discretion and a passion for service.
Harrods Bank, Second Floor
+44 20 7225 6789
Bureau de Change
The Harrods Bureau De Change service, situated in The Harrods Shop on the Second Floor, offers a wide range of cash services. With exclusive rates for Harrods customers, instant travel money from all the major foreign currencies and a free ATM cash machine, the Harrods Bureau De Change covers all your monetary needs for travelling abroad or staying in the UK.
For more information or special enquiries, please contact +44 207 730 1234 (ext 8300).
Bureau de Change, Second Floor
Harrods Estates
Harrods Estates specialises in prime residential properties in central London and the Home Counties, whether a grand country pile or a more modest town residence. We can provide language interpreters from around the world, interior design services, top-to-toe property management and can even charter an Air Harrods helicopter to view potential properties.
Harrods Estates, 96-98 Brompton Road, London SW3 1ER
+44 20 7225 6506
- Fine Jewellery
The Fine Jewellery and Luxury Watch Room, Ground Floor, houses an unrivalled range of international brands including Cartier, Bvlgari, Tiffany & Co and Van Cleef & Arpels in an inviting and opulent setting. Discreet consultation areas ensure optimum privacy while perusing ranges, with expert advice on hand to guide you in your decision and offer in-depth and insightful information on the pieces presented.
Boodles Fine Jewellery
Boodles is justly proud to be historic English family jewellers. Over two centuries it has become famous for its audacious design, magnificent diamonds and quirky understated English charm. Collectors compete to buy Boodles' one-off designs, while branded ranges are recognised as works of art. Boodles diamonds are a class apart; only the few with perfect proportions reach Boodles high technical specifications.
+44 20 7225 6786
Boucheron Fine Jewellery
Boucheron jewellery reflects the house's 150 years of experience crafting exquisite pieces. You'll find the latest breathtaking collections in our Fine Jewellery Room, many featuring Boucheron's coveted diamonds, which are considered among the best in the world.
+44 20 7893 8858
Bulgari Fine Jewellery
For over a century, Bulgari has been setting the pace for Italian style in jewellery. Its forward-looking creative spirit draws inspiration from the timeless beauty of Greek and Roman art, giving it a truly contemporary touch.
The sense of volume, the love for linearity and symmetry, and certain details recalling art and architecture are signature characteristics of Bulgari's creations.
+44 20 7893 8858
Cartier Fine Jewellery
Cartier was established by Louis Francois Cartier, in Paris in 1847. His son and three grandsons expanded the business internationally, opening boutiques in New York and London.
Cartier has become universally recognised, welcoming orders from royalty across the globe, from the Maharajahs of India to the Kings and Queens of Europe.
Today, Cartier creations, whether pieces of high jewellery or contemporary jewellery collections, timepieces or objet d'arts, translate the values of a house built on a unique know-how, style, expertise and elegance.
+44 20 7893 8858
Chopard Fine Jewellery
Quality and creativity are the hallmarks of Chopard, the luxury watch and jewellery firm founded by Louis-Ulysse Chopard in 1860. Chopard is most famous for its Happy Diamonds collection. Created 20 years ago, the very first Happy Sport watch was part of the spectacular success enjoyed by the Happy Diamonds.
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 5026
H. Stern Fine Jewellery
Innovative design. Unique style. Star following. These terms have become part of the lexicon used to describe H.Stern and its ever-expanding position as a leading contemporary jeweller among today's top luxury brands.
+44 20 7893 8477
Theo Fennell Fine Jewellery
The elemental beauty of an unpolished gemstone inspires a creative alchemy, the essence of Theo Fennell. Discover pieces from the iconic skulls charm to exquisite earrings, pendants and rings and diamond-encrusted keys.
+44 20 7893 4068
Tiffany & Co Fine Jewellery
More than a century ago, Tiffany & Co. introduced the engagement ring as we now know it. Today, a Tiffany diamond ring is the ultimate symbol of true love and lifetime commitment.
Over a lifetime, a woman will look at her diamond ring more than one million times. And with each glance comes a burst of white light more brilliant than all the rest. A Tiffany ring is always presented in the famous Tiffany Blue Box®. For more than 170 years, it has been the symbol of the best there is.
+44 20 7893 8503
Van Cleef & Arpels Fine Jewellery
Born of a love story between Alfred Van Cleef and Estelle Arpels at the dawn of the 20th century, the House of Van Cleef & Arpels is renowned worldwide for unparalleled craftsmanship and timeless innovative design.
A Van Cleef & Arpels watch is created by a great jeweller. Indeed, it is the house's same commitment to excellence in jewellery making that is applied to the creation of watches, for pieces that are exceptional in every way.
+44 20 7225 6520
Vertu is the pioneer and leading manufacturer of handcrafted mobile phones for the luxury market.
Vertu phones use only the finest leather and precious materials, and each one is individually hand-assembled in England by expert craftsmen. Features include diamond patterned brushed stainless steel back plates, diamond-studded leather and the unique Vertu Ascent bezel.
+44 20 7225 6624
- Food
Customised ice cream
Our scrumptious Ice Cream Parlour can create flavours of ice cream and sorbet to your taste within 24 hours - including strawberries and Champagne, experimental flavours such as parmesan and pear or even mushroom sorbet. They only use natural ingredients, and can produce dairy-free options.
Ice Cream Parlour, Second Floor
+44 207 893 8959
Hampers and gift boxes
Harrods can create bespoke hampers and gift boxes to suit your personal tastes for delivery anywhere in the world (fresh foods UK only; conditions apply). If you're heading to a special event we can tailor-make a fresh food picnic in a coolbag to pick up from the store on the morning you need it. There is also an extensive range of set menu hampers all year round.
Food Orders Desk, Food Halls, Ground Floor
+44 20 7893 8041/2
Complimentary Local Delivery
Bring Harrods to your doorstep at a time convenient for you! Spend over £50 in the Food Halls or The Wine Shop and have our reliable and efficient service deliver products straight to your home free of charge.* Plus, you can now book a two-hour time slot between 10am and 8pm on weekdays and Saturdays.
*Free delivery to postcodes SW1, SW3, SW5, SW7, SW10, W1, W2, W8, W11, W14, NW1.
To order, please speak with a wine advisor, visit the Ground Floor Food Orders Desk, call +44 20 7893 8093 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Cake making and decorating
We can bake and decorate a cake exactly to your specifications. You provide ideas or a picture of what you would like produced - from a fairytale castle to a giant pork pie wedding cake - and our designers will model an edible masterpiece.
Food Orders Desk, Food Halls, Ground Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 4848
Menu creation
This free service helps you create the perfect menu - whether for an indulgent picnic with an elaborate hamper, an afternoon tea of scones, finger sandwiches and fine teas or a gourmet banquet with Champagne reception and five courses. To complement, our advisors can locate accompanying wines, as well as guide you with expert cooking and serving tips. We also produce special Burns Night and Christmas menus each year.
Food Advisory Service, Food Halls, Ground Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 4848
Wine appreciation
Our expert Wine Shop can give expert cellar advice and planning, create bespoke wine cases, and organise private tastings for you, as well as hosting wine tasting days and evenings in-store.
Wine Shop, Lower Ground Floor
+44 20 7893 8777
Entertaining at Harrods
You can hire one of the store's most elaborate interiors for a private function - perhaps a cocktail reception in our world-famous Food Halls for more than 150 guests, a formal award ceremony or a sparkling dinner dance with sit-down meal for 450 guests in our stunning Georgian Restaurant. For smaller-scale daytime corporate entertainment, our Georgian Restaurant also provides an ideal setting for a business presentation over breakfast, with exclusive use until the store opens at 10am.
Entertaining at Harrods
+44 20 7225 6736
Food delivery
Have your Harrods groceries handily delivered anywhere within the M25 from Monday to Saturday. Our refrigerated vans offer a next-day delivery service for goods ordered before 3pm, with all food packed in Harrods boxes or bags. Restrictions apply.
Food Advisory Service, Food Halls, Ground Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 4848
- Furniture & Interiors
Your home should look exactly as you want it, with accessories tailored precisely to your requirements.
Harrods furniture department
A world of expert craftsmanship and cutting-edge design awaits in Harrods Furniture Department. From the ornately traditional, to the ultra-modern, you'll discover distinguished collections and limited edition pieces from an impressive array of the world's most luxurious brands.
Find out more about the Furniture Floor
View our in-store Furniture brands
Design for Living
Design for Living helps you to make the most of your living space and furnishings. A team of experienced sales associates are on hand to assess your specific requirements, carry out site measures and offer advice on choosing the right items of furniture for your home. A CAD planner is available to create a computer generated floor plan to help you to visualize your space. Your furniture will be fully considered to work in harmony with you and your home.
Furnishing Fabrics, Third Floor
+44 20 7730 1234, ext. 2029
Curtain making
Our team can create bespoke window dressings to your precise requirements, including curtains, blinds, wallcoverings, valances and pelmets, as well as matching soft accessories such as bed-coronas, quilted bedspreads, cushions and upholstery. Harrods expert workrooms will measure up your windows while you purchase fabric from the department. Also available are blinds and panel and hardware ranges from Silent Gliss for contemporary interiors. Bespoke trimmings to complement are also possible.
Furnishing Fabrics, Third Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 2029
Furniture re-upholstery
Choose fabric from our selection in Furnishing Fabrics and we can recover or re-upholster your furniture for you.
Furnishing Fabrics, Third Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 2029
The Rug Company
Located on the Third Floor, this Notting Hill-based rug maker brings its very own brand of contemporary style and artisan craftsmanship. At the forefront of style, The Rug Company regularly collaborates with some of the world's finest creative minds, including Paul Smith, Alexander McQueen, Tom Dixon and Giles Deacon.
The Rug Company, Third Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 3657
Customised bedlinens
The French luxury bedlinen brand D. Porthault offers a bespoke embroidery servive allowing customers to embroider an image or text of their choice onto sheets and duvet covers.
Bedlinens, Second Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 8573
Bespoke tableware
The look of your dining table should be unique to you and reflect your tastes exactly. Start with a bespoke tablecloth in fine Irish linen in any size from Traditional Dining.
You can order hand-finished porcelain by Haviland crafted in Limoges with customised highlight colours and your own monogram. Soizick, creators of fine hand-painted porcelain, accepts full commissions or monograms. Harrods also offers a glassware engraving service.
Homewares, Second Floor
+44 20 7730 1234
Floral decorations
Harrods can organise glorious floral decorations - from centrepieces for small dinner parties to lavish state occasions - through London's most outstanding flower arranger, Moyses Stevens. Same-day delivery in London from Harrods can also be arranged.
Food Halls, Ground Floor
+44 20 7730 1234. ext. 6493
Customised lighting
The Harrods Customised Lighting department offers a bespoke service through several of its lighting brands, allowing you to commission a piece entirely of your own design. Pieces can be made to order from any current range as well as exactly to your specifications.
Lighting, Third Floor
+44 20 7730 1234, ext. 3964
Art and objets d'art
Europe's largest fine art publisher offers pieces by Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Lorenzo Quinn and limited edition prints and sculptures with new signings every season. We can arrange for serious collectors to arrange viewings of fine art in their own home and also offer a complimentary hanging service on purchases.
Halcyon Galleries, Second Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 3056
- Harrods Theatre Tickets and Attractions
Experience the attractions of London and its dazzling West End. Enjoy the spectacular shows and attractions that London has to offer, gaining Harrods Rewards points while doing so.
Harrods Rewards and Concierge offer tickets for all of London's West End Theatres and Attractions. Whether treating yourself to night out, giving a gift to a loved one, or just wanting to spend a day seeing the sights of London, Harrods can arrange this for you. All you need to do is come and see the Harrods Rewards and Concierge in-store or give us a call on the below number.
Harrods Rewards and Concierge, Second and Third Floor, 0333 300 1234
- Harrods Gift Cards
Harrods Gift Cards
A Harrods Gift Card offers endless possibilities for birthdays, special occasions and corporate gifting. Available in any denomination between £10 and £500, a Harrods gift card is available to buy and use in-store and online at harrods.com.
- Healthcare
Harrods believes in all-over fitness, so our dedicated Pharmacy can fulfil prescriptions and sell medical and complementary therapy supplies.
Monday to Saturday 10am - 8pm, Sunday 12 noon - 6pm.
Pharmacy, Lower Ground Floor
+44 20 7225 5954
Eye tests
In-store opticians can give eye tests and prescribe sports glasses, spectacles, sunglasses and contact lenses.
Opticians, Lower Ground Floor
+44 20 7225 5841
- Gift Wrapping at Harrods
Enjoy delightfully decorated presents with the Harrods in-store gift wrapping service.
Able to tackle every present, large or small, the gift-wrapping team offers a bespoke service as well as providing a catalogue of beautifully arranged, ready-made options from which to choose.
Be it for a friend, a colleague or a loved one, choose from a wide variety of luxury wrapping papers and ribbons in every colour of the rainbow, and see your perfect parcel finished with a charming keepsake; from vintage-style wooden toys for children's gifts to VV Rouleaux butterflies and berry bouquets from Harrods' in-store florist, Moyses Stevens.
With prices starting at £6.50 for a small gift, visit the Harrods gift-wrapping team on the Third Floor to find out more or contact the team on +44 (0)20 3036 6299.
- Lifestyle & Leisure
Personalised stationery and pens
Luxury stationers Smythson offer an in-store personalisation service, including customised letterheads, correspondence cards, business and visiting cards, changes of address and Christmas cards with the engraving of your choice, as well as invitations to special occasions such as weddings, parties and christenings. Smythson can also emboss their own brand leather photo albums and books. The Harrods Writing Room can engrave names on most pens in-store and a portrait or other image on the Montegrappa Portrait Pen.
Smythson, Second Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 8094
The Writing Room, Lower Ground Floor
+44 20 7730 1234 ext. 5576
- Travel
Travel shop
Abercrombie & Kent Private Travel bureau offers the finest personalised service to an ever growing international market.
Our expert travel consultants have a wealth of experience and extensive personal travel knowledge and can tailor-make a bespoke itinerary to anywhere on the planet. Private jets, yachts, island hideaways… the world is your oyster.
Abercrombie & Kent, Lower Ground Floor
+44 20 7173 6440
Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways offers an elevated travel experience to more than 150 destinations, and the opportunity to explore the world through its ever-expanding network.
A world leader in customer service, Qatar Airways is confident that your next trip will be diligently managed by a team of knowledgeable consultants.
Qatar Airways, Lower Ground Floor
+44 33 0024 0125
- Harrods Interiors: Bespoke Design Services
About Harrods Interiors:
Harrods Interiors offers straightforward interior design and home styling solutions, ranging from a single room furniture layout to full interior design. The experienced and highly-skilled Harrods Interiors team has the support and resources of all the luxury home brands in Harrods, as well as relationships with many international brands and bespoke suppliers. Harrods Interiors also offers bespoke garden design and landscaping solutions by renowned Garden Designer Diarmuid Gavin. With its multidisciplinary design expertise, the Harrods Interiors team can ensure that each project is delivered to the best possible results and to the high standard that Harrods is renowned for.
Harrods Interiors Services:
- Interior Styling
- Interior Layouts & Planning
- Furniture Packages
- Bespoke Interior Design
- Interior Design Turnkey Solutions
- Harrods Gardens - Bespoke garden design and landscaping solutions by renowned Garden Designer Diarmuid Gavin
- White Glove Installation Service
- International Sourcing & Installation
- Project Coordination & Management
Interior Layouts & Planning:
Harrods Interiors provides decorative solutions to cater for all your needs, from helping plan a single room layout, to curating accessories for an entire property. We create CAD (computer-aided design) room layouts to help you envisage the finished result. CAD also ensures that your new furniture fits, and that the space in your home is used to its full potential.
You can also choose to furnish your home with the help of our furniture packages, which range from entry-level to more advanced schemes.
Bespoke Interior Design:
Harrods Interiors offers a full interior design service. Working closely with you, the team creates bespoke designs, incorporating fixtures and fittings to suit your lifestyle, taste and requirements. Harrods Interiors operates internationally, and offers global delivery and installation. The team has access to all the home brands stocked at Harrods, as well as relationships with international bespoke suppliers all over the world.
Harrods Interiors • Third Floor • 87-135 Brompton Road, London SW1X 7XL
- The Gift Concierge
A team of experts with access to seven floors and 330 departments of international luxury brands, The Gift Concierge is the world's premier gift-buying service.
Whoever you are buying for and whatever the occasion, our personal advisers can help you find the perfect gift – be it a rare blend from The Spirits Room, the season's most coveted handbag or the latest high-tech gadget.
By offering an expert edit of gifts, beautifully packaged and delivered, we make finding the perfect surprise simple.
Contact the Gift Concierge
Call or email us and our advisers will help you find the ideal gifts for your friends and family at no additional cost.
Perfect gifts all wrapped up
Each gift will be encased in a sleek cream box with Harrods signature ribbon in your choice of dark green, black, dark red, hot pink or bright blue.
At an additional cost we can wrap them in your choice of papers ribbons and embellishments.
Prompt and efficient delivery
Your gifts will be delivered to you or your recipients, or you can collect them in-store Spend £250 or more and receive complimentary UK standard delivery.
For all other deliveries standard harrods.com delivery terms and conditions apply
For further information, please contact The Gift Concierge on +44 (0)20 7893 8000, email at firstname.lastname@example.com or in-store at the Harrods Rewards Station, Third Floor.
- The Gift Bureau
With seven floors of luxury products from the world's leading brands to choose from, The Gift Bureau at Harrods offers the ultimate gift list service and the ability to host your gift list online for your guests to select the ideal gift for you. Our personal consultants will work with you to compile a list that perfectly reflects your tastes and lifestyle. From fine art to designer jewellery, vintage wines, bespoke bed linen, made-to-order furniture and couture fashion – a gift list at Harrods offers a shopping experience like no other.
For further information, or to book an appointment, please contact The Gift Bureau on +44 20 7225 6500 or visit http://giftbureau.harrods.com


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Getting ready to blast the old site into oblivion, we came across a few gems, like this article done for the inaugural launch of SmithRock.com.
We felt it most appropriate to re-post it now, as Alan is being interviewed once again for a documentary here at the park–an upcoming feature. Enjoy.
March 2000 – For our inaugural launch we have a special interview with Alan Watts, the one climber most familiar with — and responsible for — Smith Rock's climb to prominence as an international sport climbing destination.
Alan's entire climbing career is inextricably entwined with the recent past of Smith Rock, the remote central Oregon crag that now ranks among the world's elite climbing destinations.
It was Alan and other local climbers that spearheaded the events taking place over the last twenty years, the events that put Smith Rock on the map and created the entirely new classification of sport climbing.
Alan Watts and Smith Rock are two of the defining elements in the birth of American sport climbing. Join us as we talk with Alan about his climbing and Smith Rock — past, present and future.
SmithRock.com: Could you tell us a little bit about your climbing background and how you originally got involved in rock climbing?
Alan: My dad was a climber and he did a couple first ascents of some of the pinnacles of Smith Rock in 1960 or so– and I just grew up around that. While I was growing up, my family went up into the mountains for family time.
As long as I can remember I was involved in climbing, mainly mountaineering at first. I climbed the South Sister when I was eight years old, and had done most of the Oregon Cascade peaks by the time I was twelve or thirteen.
Even by the age of ten I had a pretty good idea that climbing was something I really wanted to pursue — I even bought my first piece of climbing hardware at theage of ten. It was a piton. It cost a dollar fifty.
SmithRock.com: How would you describe Smith Rock for someone who has never climbed there? It was the new and difficult routes that you and others pioneered that helped to get Smith Rock discovered, but what are some of the, other features of Smith Rock that set it apart from other areas and still draw climbers to Smith Rock?
Alan: The setting for Smith Rock is outstanding. It's truly a beautiful place to visit and to climb. It is also compact enough where you can see everything. It's not overgrown, and you can see many other routes and you can watch other climbers around you.
There's a whole feeling to the environment of the main area that is visually very cool.The other great feature is the variety of climbs. There are many micro areas within Smith Rock that offer amazing variety.
I'd say that there is more variety at Smith Rock than just about any other climbing area.
SmithRock.com: And when did you actually start climbing at Smith Rock?
Alan: I didn't really climb there when I was young — beyond just hiking around with the family. In fact, I didn't even do any technical climbing there until early 1975.
Until that time I was more interested in mountaineering, but I was fifteen years old and had no way to drive up to the mountains. With the long winters here, I looked at Smith as a place to go to train for mountain climbing.
It was only twenty miles away from where I lived and there happened to be somebody at my high school who was a climber, and we ended up going to Smith — and that's how it started for me.
I didn't have a tremendous interest in becoming a good rock climber, I wasn't real strong at all back then, and I really didn't think I had what it took to become much of a climber — much of a rock climber, at least.
SmithRock.com: What role would you say Smith Rock played in your development as a climber?
Alan: In some ways, it WAS my development, it was that important. I wouldn't have been a climber without Smith Rock. There was a long period of time — the first three or four years– when I was learning by trial and error– simply learning how to climb and progressing at a very slow pace.
I climbed for three years or so before I even did a route that was harder than 5.9. I was progressing slowly, and then I moved away and went to school in Eugene, Oregon. I started climbing at a little local Eugene climbing spot called The Columns.
I hooked up with the right people, and was in the right environment to become a much better climber. I progressed very, very rapidly after that. By the time I moved back to Smith Rock in 1980, I was able to push the standards there.
And, for the next decade, that is what my life was– climbing. It wasn't just a part of my life, my life became climbing.
SmithRock.com: After all that has happened since then — for you and for Smith Rock — what are some of your favorite memories as you look back?
Alan: That's a tough one, to tell you the truth…there are absolutely countless great times and memories. From where I sit right now, I don't know if there's any one particular memory. But I do remember the lifestyle back then. It was a simple time in my life, and it was an exciting time.
In a lot of ways the best times for me probably came in '83, '84, '85 — those years before Smith Rock became well known and when I was really advancing rapidly as a climber. During that time I was going from my first 5.10 in 1978 to doing hard 5.13s seven years later.
It was an exciting time for me personally, and the others climbing there. And then it became obvious– as more and more routes started to go up — that we were doing some-thing significant.
Significant not just for Smith Rock climbing, but for climbing in this country in general. We're talking about serious, significant routes; I would go and do the hardest routes in other places at the time and find that they were no harder than what we were doing at Smith Rock — and often they were easier.
It was at that point that we knew…WOW, we have this place with all this potential, with so much to do and so many hard routes and NOBODY even knows about it.
And then it was even more exciting during the time the place was discovered– when it went from being just a little climbing area off a road near Terrebonne, Oregon, to Smith Rock, the place European climbers would plan entire vacations around.
It happened in just a couple years. It was a very rapid transformation.
SmithRock.com: During that time when Smith Rock was starting to really take off, you were working on a lot of the major routes.
Of the routes that you put up at Smith Rock, or worked on, which ones are you the most proud of? And which routes are most memorable for you?
Alan: I would probably have to first mention To Bolt Or Not To Be. A lot of the routes I am most proud of I didn't have the first ascent of, to tell you the truth.
To Bolt Or Not To is one of those. It was the hardest route I have ever done, and it took a tremendous amount of effort for me to do — at a time when was I climbing really well.
I was the first person to establish it; I cleaned it — and that was quite an undertaking — and I worked out the moves. It was a route that I had a long history with.
I started work on it in '84 and completed it in '89. The fact that four other people had done it in between wasn't that big a deal to me. For me, it seemed significantly harder than anything else I had done at that point, and I had done routes that were close to that hard.
Scarface, for instance, was considered a 5.14 at the time and I had done the second ascent of that a year earlier. To Bolt Or Not To Be certainly seemed harder than that.
It's like 130 feet long, and, for the most part, there is hardly a place on the route where you couldn't fall off. The lower half of the route, or lower two-thirds, is just extremely difficult the entire way. The upper part is easier — but still hard 5.12.
By then, you're pumped enough that it's really hard to keep it together; it's hard to climb that great when you're that pumped. I'm also proud of Just Do It, on Monkey Face. It's the hardest route at Smith Rock right now — and I never did do it.
But it is one of the routes there that is a creation of mine, one of the routes that I envisioned. I could see a route going up there, and I established it.
There also are a lot of routes in the Dihedrals that are very memorable. They aren't necessarily the hardest routes, but routes that for the time were significant.
Chain Reaction, for instance, was significant in that it marked the beginning of the whole sport climbing scene. Even though it's short and not especially difficult by today's standards, it remains special for me.
SmithRock.com: Speaking of the beginning of sport climbing, how did you decide to start putting routes up on rappel?
Alan: Well, there were two reasons. Part of it was just out of necessity to do the more appealing lines. The other reason was that it was just easier. Going from the ground up, doing routes that way, was pretty scary!
Part of it was just being a wimp, when it came down to it. But routes that we could climb from the ground up were becoming few and far between.
Smithrock.com: Were others placing routes on rappel before you, and did you know if it was being done that way in Europe?
Alan: No, I had no idea. It wasn't until '85, I think, before we started to understand what they were doing in Europe. Mainly when Kim Carrigan and Johnny Woodward and Jeff Weigand came to Smith in '85, they let us know what was going on.
Before that I really didn't have any idea. That's always the one thing in almost every interview I've ever done that people can't quite get. What happened at Smith Rock wasn't influenced by what was going on in Europe — up until '86 when J.B. Tribout came. We just had no idea.
When I did my first route on rappel, the direct start to King Kong, I didn't know exactly how they were doing routes at Smith Rock. I was surprised, and I felt kind of bad, when I found out that Jeff Thomas wasn't…uh, real happy that I had done a route on rappel. I had just assumed that's what everybody did; it seemed logical.
In my opinion, when it comes right down to it, anybody who wants to climb and who is really interested in doing lots of climbing and new routes, and is not bound by any sort tradition or strong influences is going to put up routes on rappel.
That is the way that the majority of people would do it. It just makes the most sense. It might not make the most sense in a place like Yosemite where the walls are so big, but in a place like Smith — certainly.
SmithRock.com: This type of climbing was also evolving in Europe at the same time.
After you had been putting up routes on rappel here, and then found out about it over there, did you ever consciously think you were developing something entirely new? Did you know that you were introducing sport climbing?
Alan: No. Not even in the least bit. I don't even know who coined the term sport climbing. My first trip to Europe was in 1986. It was later, at the end of the '80s that the term stuck.
All I was trying to do — the only thing I was trying to do — was simply do an impressive collection of routes at Smith Rock. The fact that they were influential throughout the rest of the country was a total and complete surprise. I would never have guessed that.
SmithRock.com: At what point did you realize the impact you were having on climbing at Smith Rock?
Alan: I'd start by saying that 1983 was the turning point for climbing at Smith Rock itself. After freeing a bunch of aid climbs, I was turning towards things that were more remote, more unpleasant, things that were for the most part OK, but…let's just say that they're routes that don't get done a whole lot today.
Routes like Midnight Snack, Tarantula, Tears Of Rage — things like that. That's where I was headed. If I had kept going in that direction, just looking for cracks to climb and more and more remote cracks, I could have done quite a few more.
But doing those routes was only confirming the opinions of those who thought that Smith Rock was climbed out, and a LOT of people — the majority opinion in the early 80's –thought that Smith Rock was climbed out, believe it or not….
1983 was the year when I started to turn away from the cracks and started to look at all the faces. Once I did that, and it became obvious just how featured those faces were, suddenly everything changed. So it was certainly 1983 when the big changes started for Smith Rock.
As for nationally, it wasn't until 1987 that what we were doing at Smith really began to register. It just suddenly happened. JB (Tribout) made his trip from France– and that of course got tons of press — and, at the same time, there were a variety of different articles in European magazines and an article in Outside magazine.
Enough things happened that, come spring of '87, Smith Rock was where every serious climber in the country decided to make a spring trip. Before that, in '86, I wasn't around very much. I was going to school and I was in Europe.
It was the spring of '86 that a few people started showing up, and then JB came over in that October — and it really changed after that.
SmithRock.com: When did you realize the long-term effect this would have on rock climbing in the US; did you think what was happening at Smith Rock would change the way climbing was done in the States?
Alan: By the end of the 80's it began to appear that way. In '86-'87 there was the great debate — at the AAC [American Alpine Club] meetings.
I think that was when I started to gain some converts, people I never would have imagined such as the die-hard traditionalists. At that point I knew things were going to be different.
Like when Ron Kauk (laugh) came over to the dark side, that told me that something was really going on here — it wasn't just this group of renegades. I think Ron came over in 87, I remember we were both on Taco Chips at that point, and it was pretty new. He wasn't there when Scott was putting up Scarface, and that was early 88. He came back, of course, several times.
Looking back, it is kind of funny, I never would have guessed there would be such a strong sub-sport growing out of what we were doing — that this "sport climbing" would become such a huge thing, and that so many areas around the country would become crammed with all these difficult routes. And that climbing gyms would become so popular. Climbing really branched out in a new direction that I never anticipated.
SmithRock.com: When you first started putting routes up on rappel, was there any discussion about the number of bolts and placement, especially since what you were doing was new — and went against the grain of traditional climbing techniques? Like on Heinous Cling, for example?
Alan: Things were a lot different back then. I wasn't trying to equip sport climbs. I didn't know what a sport climb was. That was never what I was trying to do.
I wasn't thinking, "it sure would be convenient to have a bolt here and a bolt here, and have an anchor here where you can lower off with one rope," or anything like that. That wasn't the idea, the idea was still just trying to put up routes.
The reason Heinous Cling had three bolts on the whole route is that I could get in protection in other places the rest of the way. It was run out in places and there was a lot of weird stuff, like a #5 hex you could slide into a pocket — a lot of small wires, and just the sort of stuff that I would never want to trust today.
I think I did feel sort of guilty…I don't know….I knew that people were critical of the bolts. And I knew that the whole attitude about bolts was that there was nothing bold about it, that it just took all the adventure away.
I think in response to that — and in response to just how much of a pain -in-the-butt it was to hand drill — if I could find a spot for an RP or a Friend, and if I could tell it was a good piece, I would NOT put in a bolt.
But the next year, I did Darkness At Noon, and there were all bolts on that. And the only reason that was all bolted is there were no places for suitable gear. It was hand drilled.
When I went back to school in '85 it was a good thing, that I was gone for a while and other people came and sport climbing got a boost from somebody other than me. I was actually headed in a misguided direction. I was putting up routes on rappel that were more and more run out. They just weren't any fun to get on, when it comes down to it.
I remember doing what later became French Connection, and the first time I led that — and I never linked it back then because it was just too darn scary — but once you left Sunshine there were four bolts to the top.
That would mean that the 10th bolt of To Bolt Or Not To Be and the last bolt on To Bolt Or Not To Be were not there. And that was just sick. You'd fall. You'd go 60 feet! It was just ridiculous. It was all I could do to get up the nerve, after hanging on a bolt, just to make the dash to the next bolt.
Eventually, it started to become more painful than pleasurable, and I think that's the reason I was kind of getting burned out.It actually helped to have the Europeans come and say, "forget this!"
They'd do a route like Powder In The Eyes, to the right of Sunshine, where there's a little crack at the start and obviously you could put cams in there, and they'd be like, "nope, let's just put in bolts…"
In a lot of ways it was kind of nice that it turned that way. That was a big part of sport climbing getting going. It was not just trying to go from three RP's down to two RP's and making things more and more dangerous.
SmithRock.com: Heinous Cling has been totally bolted now, right? Do you think that's lowered the grade?
Alan: Yes, it is totally bolted now, and it's easier to do. You don't have to stop and hang out, but it's still the same climb. Technically the moves are the same, but it was a little bit harder back then.
Psychologically, it was quite a bit harder. Just clipping those big bolts is easy — I mean there's something just a little bit weird about stuffing a Friend in a pocket, and the cams are back there twisting around, and then going off above that. You tend to hold on quite a bit harder and not be quite as relaxed.
SmithRock.com: Did a lot of the routes that you put up go up after it became obvious that more bolts should be going in, rather than less?
Alan: I did a lot of routes after. However, the real difference — apart from just being able to put more bolts and not be concerned about making things more and more dangerous — was the power drill. That had a huge impact. It had as big an impact on American sport climbing as anything.
That's always been one of my regrets, and there's nothing I can do now, but I've felt that if in '83, '84, '85, when I was devoting every day of my life to the place, if I would have had a power drill…I think, though, even if I would have had a power drill, I wouldn't have quite had the balls to just spray bolts in everywhere.
If I would've had the power drill and a "let's just go to town and drill this place up" attitude, I would have probably done two or three times as many routes; they're so easy to do now with the power drill.
That's why, when the people came in '87, '88, and '89, routes were suddenly really pretty easy to put up. So I did put in quite a few after that.
SmithRock.com: What was happening from the early to middle 80's at Smith Rock, as far as new routes and new techniques?
Alan: In the early 80's I was the only person putting up new routes. After that, there were a few people putting up some new routes at Smith, but nobody was putting up routes that were anywhere close to the hardest climbs at Smith Rock at the time.
Other people like Jim Anglin, Mike Hartley and Kent Benesch were doing some routes then, but Jim and Mike's were all traditional.
Up through about'85 I figured that, of the 60 most difficult pitches at Smith Rock, 59 were ones that I had done the first ascent of — and Alan Lester had done one. So, there was a time when I felt dominant.
And, it just occurred to me, that some of the routes actually were cleaned on rappel, but climbed more traditionally. Like Heinous Cling, for instance, I started with some RP's and Skyhooks; that was actually drilled on lead.
I knew what was there though [in rappelling the route]. I knew where I was going to be putting my hooks, but real soon I realized how stupid that was…
SmithRock.com: As far as you know, nobody else was doing routes on rappel?
Alan: There were routes in other part of the country that were going up in what was then considered to be in really, really bad style — which is how they would have considered these new routes at Smith Rock. Other climbers that were climbing in "bad style" were climbers like Todd Skinner…and Christian Griffith was no purist, either.
And, even before that, people like Mark Hudon, Max Jones, Ray Jardine and Tony Yaniro — and the way people like that were climbing, was new. But it was different. It wasn't like they were rappelling and bolting on rappel, or anything like that.
They were rebelling against an ultra-pure style, a Jim Erickson type of style out of Colorado where the ethics were EVERYTHING; a religion essentially.
They were doing a whole variety of things, hang-dogging, pre-placing some nuts, yo-yoing — all sorts of different tactics that challenged the purists' methods of the day.
SmithRock.com: Speaking of methods of the day, what kind of training were you doing back then to get in shape or stay in shape?
Alan: I was pretty much just climbing, that's really what I was doing. I would< do a little bit of finger work, but there weren't any hang-boards back then, or plastic holds. If there would have been climbing gyms — that would have been wonderful!
But there weren't, and I pretty much just climbed. If I had known to train, and could have devoted more time to that, I think it could have made a real difference. But back then, if I was climbing 20 or 25 days a month already and I wanted to get better, then the way to get better would be to climb 30 or 31 days a month. That was my attitude and what I was doing.
I did have some wooden blocks put up on the beams of my parent's deck and I would do all sorts of traverses and that kind of stuff. I got that idea from Chris Jones who had little blocks set up in his bedroom back in Eugene; that was the first time I had seen that.
SmithRock.com: What are the most significant changes that you've noticed at Smith Rock since the 1980's?
Alan: There are lots more people climbing now. You can see the impact of all the people that have been coming there.
SmithRock.com: Have you noticed a significant physical impact on the park and itself? Things like over-crowding, more garbage or other things?
Alan: There's probably no more garbage — there might even be less than there was back in the early '80's. Things that I notice — apart from the direct climbing impact of all these routes with bolts and chalk — probably the biggest change is that the base of all the cliffs have changed so much.
It used to be vegetated right up to the base of the wall and now there's this whole big swath where the vegetation is pretty much gone. Visually, that's the biggest difference. It just seems really well worn. I remember when there was sagebrush below Moonshine Dihedral, for instance.
It was all over. Below New Testament and Revelations, it used to be a grassy hillside right up to the base of the wall. I remember there was a sagebrush right at the base of Revelations that people would sometimes tie into as a belay anchor. So, that's changed a lot.
But, for the most part, the area as a whole hasn't really changed much at all. If you stand back, or move from the main area, or if you go over to the west side there are very few changes. If you go to outlying areas it's just the same as it ever was.
SmithRock.com: What about the types of climbers at Smith Rock, has that changed?
Alan: Yeah. It has. There weren't a whole lot of climbers back in the early 80's and everybody kind of knew each other; it was a real comfortable scene just because we were all friends.
In the late 80's it became a real competitive scene where all the best climbers from the country — and the world — were coming to do the routes, and trying to put up new routes and trying to do the existing routes faster than their rival had done them, or whatever.
So it became a scene that was very top-heavy with really top-level climbers. It was like where doing Churning In The Wake would just be a warm-up. You'd be kind of embarrassed to even get on the thing.
And then, as other areas started to become more popular, the percentage of really good climbers decreased, and the percentage of casual climbers increased. And that's the biggest change.
For the most part, it's an area where — because there are so many good, easy and moderate routes — casual climber are the majority. There are some good limbers, but in the late 80's a lot of time fifty to sixty percent of the climbers would be climbing 5.12 or 5.13.
And now, there might be ten percent of the people out there on any given day that are climbing at the real hard grades. There are still people doing it, and there are climbers that are better than ever, but back then there wasn't much for the 5.8, 5.9, 5.10 climber. Now there's a huge amount of stuff for them to do.
SmithRock.com: In light of what you were doing in the mid-80's and 90's, how has that changed climbing over the last ten or 15 years?
Alan: There are so many different areas of climbing that anytime you start talking about how climbing has changed in general it's really difficult. People talk about who's the best climber, and there are all these arguments that miss the whole point.
Like arguments where people are trying to compare top alpine climbers with those who are winning climbing competitions and those who are bouldering really hard and those who are doing El Cap and Half Dome in a day.
There are just so many different disciplines…it's like arguing who's the best skier. Is it a cross country skier or is it someone who won the Olympic downhill? They're so different they can't really be compared.
In the area of climbing at Smith Rock, and the rock climbing that I personally was interested in — which is just a narrow segment — the biggest change has been the emergence of sport climbing. The routes, and the way the routes were put up in the 80's was originally very controversial. But now sport climbing is common and completely accepted and that has brought a lot more people into the sport.
That led to the popularity of climbing gyms and, in turn, brought more people into the sport and more money into the industry. Overall, that's the biggest change in rock climbing in general, the whole sport climbing movement.
It led to a variety of other things and it translates to an awful lot more people climbing and a lot of money generated in the industry.
All of the new people getting into the sport– it's not like anybody is really getting rich — but there's a huge number of people making their living now, either working for a company or having a climbing gym, or whatever. The number of people who are making their living climbing has increased many times over the last 15 years.
SmithRock.com: What can you tell us about the resurgence of new routes going up in the last couple years at Smith Rock? And, is there one person driving this, or are there a number of people?
Alan: There HAS been a fairly huge amount of new route activity at Smith Rock recently. Ryan Lawson has done a tremendous number of routes. He's bolted a huge number of routes — he's actually kind of burned himself out, I think.
He was the main one doing new stuff, and then other people started doing them, as well. I don't know if Ryan got them started, or the fact that they heard there was going to be a guidebook and that got people going, or what — I don't really know.
SmithRock.com: What do you think of the quality of these new routes?
Alan: I've done most of these new routes now, and I actually think it's pretty good. A lot of people just absolutely don't think that.
SmithRock.com: Why don't people think they're good routes? Is it too many routes, or overcrowding?
Alan: Well…there are — and there always has been as long as I can ever remember — a group of people who are critical of anything new or any change. The faces have changed but the attitude has stayed
the same. They were critical back when I was doing some new things, and they are critical now.
And they don't really greet newcomers with open arms. I feel that if I had put up a lot of these new routes it would not have been very controversial at all.
But it was controversial because of the people that did them. They were newcomers, they weren't especially great climbers, they made some mistakes.
The routes were kind of crammed-in in some places, but that's not so unusual. I think the biggest issue is that they are newcomers. It's a bummer that there is currently such a negative
attitude among some local climbers about new routes.
Thinking back to the mid and late 80's, I can remember that it started to get kind of competitive back then and it started to change a bit. It used to be that if someone would come in and do a new route or contribute to developing the area, people looked at it real positively.
Like when Brooke Sandahl moved in — he was a newcomer back in 84 or so — he started to do a few routes and it wasn't like "phew, who is this guy, who is this wanker…?"
It never would have even occurred to us, I never thought that way. So there was this real supportive "Yeah! let's just keep doing this stuff!," attitude. It was a very positive attitude.
This was in contrast to a place like Yosemite, where it seemed like there was so much of a negative attitude, where anything anybody tried that was new was looked down on. The attitude there at times wasso bad you could feel it in the air just walking through Camp Four; Ieally felt it. Smith was different.
But, over time, as Smith has matured, it has kind of become the same way. I think the local scene is similar to what Yosemite was like. I think it is indicative of a very mature area, an area where there are not as many new and exciting things happening. People are just kind of hanging on to the past…
SmithRock.com: Do you think that is also because there are just more people involved?
Alan: Yeah, I think that's a lot of it.Ryan, he's not the antichrist or anything, he a perfectly decent guy. A lot of the routes that he's done have been really good. He's done some great things and I think he's really contributed in a positive way.
Not all the new routes that have been going up are great…a lot of them are just not a whole lot of fun to climb –they're not that well cleaned…
SmithRock.com: Are these some of the ones that Ryan has done?
Alan: Well, both his and others. For the most part, his routes are probably a little bit better than average of the routes that have been done; he's pretty conscientious.
People now don't put a whole lot of time into cleaning routes because they've figured out that routes get cleaned over time just through use, and they don't need to spend all that time cleaning like I did.
I'd say one of the differences between now and then is the anti-new route attitude among the local climbers now.
SmithRock.com: So that's the local climbers' attitude?
Alan: I'm making a generalization, but yes. For example, I bolted some stuff last summer — some really fun, fun routes — on Rope-De-Dope. There are several new 10.a routes there now.
They're all good and fun, for the most part. They were all things that were top-roped. I did those, and I don't think anybody really knew who did them. Then something appeared on the bulletin board like "I was just over at Rope-De-Dope and there were bolts all over the place…When is this going to stop??…people are just getting so carried away…"
SmithRock.com: And these are climbers saying this?
Alan:: Yeah! And then I posted something to say that I was the one who bolted these routes and why I was doing that. It was sort of an angry post — kind of as if to say "hey, part of the reason you're here doing these routes is because I was doing routes long before you thought about climbing…"
But, I think that the attitude was that these were probably just more routes that Ryan or somebody like that put up. I'm sure the guy who posted that, when he got the reply probably said, "Oh, shit, I wish I wouldn't have done that." Let's just say that he sure didn't post anything else; there was no rebuttal.
SmithRock.com: That's an interesting anecdote reflecting some of the current attitudes among Smith Rock climbers, and how Ryan and other newcomers aren't accepted.
Alan: No, he's not accepted. In general, the local Bend area climbers just absolutely reject him– they do not like him at all. They don't even give him a chance.
SmithRock.com: And there is nothing really being done differently than what you did?
Alan: No. When it comes right down to it, no, there is no significant difference. I did, however, have a history there. The other difference is that I was mainly putting up routes that were pushing the standard.
The biggest difference, I'd say, between these routes now and the routes done in the late 80's, when new routes were going up at a similar pace, is the level of difficulty.
Nothing is being done, from an area historical perspective, that is significant as far as difficulty is concerned. There is some historical significance in developing the Marsupials, for instance.
But, as far as difficulty, there is nothing whatsoever that's being done that is hard.
In a lot of ways, that's great. Most of the people who climb at Smith Rock are not doing 5.13 or 5.14 or even 5.12. They're doing the easier routes.
SmithRock.com: We've covered the past and the present in this interview — how about the future?
Can you tell us about your guidebook? What gave you the inspiration to write a guidebook about Smith Rock? And what about the new edition?
Alan: As for how I decided to write it, it came down to a few things. I like to write, and I had some interest in doing it even before there was any need.
But then, there got to be such a strong need with all the growth and the fact that none of the sport climbing routes and none of the routes from the 80's were even covered in a guidebook.
The old guidebook had maybe 260 or 270 routes and suddenly there were 800 or 900 routes — so the need was huge. And then there were the visiting climbers who would come in and do little hand-drawn topo guides.
When those started to crop up it became real obvious that someone was going to do something someday. I felt some pressure too…and it kind of irritated me when these people visited Smith Rock for a month and then they decided to write a guidebook while they were there.
I had done so many of the routes and was so familiar with the place that it just seemed like if anybody else would have done the book I would have been…upset, to say the least. I wasn't going to let that happen.
I kind of felt pressured to do it, and then I agreed to do it, and then it took me quite a while to actually get it done — largely because for the first couple of years I didn't really do any work on it, I was just climbing. But once people knew that I was going to work on it, that kept the competition away.
Now, it's something that I like doing. Although, I don't climb there nearly as much, and it's been a bit harder to get back into the scene and do the new routes. Fortunately, the vast majority of the new routes are really easy, so I've been able work through them pretty quickly.
I still think that I'm the best person to write this guidebook at this point.Nobody has done as many of the routes as I have, and once again, it seems like a good time to do it. I don't know if there will be another one that I will do in the future after this revision. If I climb and stay involved I might. If I just totally go in a different direction I likely wouldn't.
A lot of people who write guidebooks don't really know that much about it, they don't even know that much about the area. They don't do the routes, they talk to people who have done the routes — and that's the reason that a lot of guidebooks are not especially informative.
SmithRock.com: You really have amassed an amazing climbing career, and history, at Smith Rock. In looking back have you had any second thoughts about your chosen career path as a climber? Do you ever look back on your years at Smith Rock with any regrets, or was it rewarding?
Alan: There are a lot of people who make a whole lot of money and, apart from all the things that money can buy, it's not really deeply rewarding or satisfying — and they haven't really made much of a contribution.
For me, I felt that in doing in what I really loved doing, and ignoring those who told me I shouldn't be doing that, it led to a lot of good things, not just in my life, but I think it had an impact on a lot of people's lives.
I feel like I had a real involvement in getting the sport climbing movement going. I feel that I was a significant contributor in the changes over the last 15 years that have occurred in climbing. Now there are climbing gyms, and so many more companies and people making a living climbing, and so many more climbers — I feel that I was at least part of the reason why — because I made the choice to do what I did at Smith Rock.
That is satisfying and there aren't a whole lot of times you find something in your life where that happens.You usually don't make a choice to do that. It's just a matter of doing something that you love and it might be an unintended consequence from what you decided.
But that's what I did, it's not what I do now. Climbing is not my career at this point. It's what it was. I've changed, and my interests have changed, although I'm still interested in climbing. I didn't want
to work as a climbing guide, for instance.
I worked in the industry for a long time, I got kind of tired of it. What I'm doing now is, for the most part, totally unrelated to climbing except for the fact that I'm writing this guidebook. And I'm happy to do that!

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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Oregon Tech head coach Jack Kegg announced today the signing of two athletes to the cross country and track teams, as Henry Bingham (Carson City, Nevada) and Sara Musgrave (Sacramento, California) will begin competing for the Owls this fall.
Bingham (in green and gold in photo on the left), from Bishop Manogue High School, ran a 4:40 in the 1600 meters and clocked in at 9:51 in the 3200 meter race. In the 5K event in cross country, Bingham ran a 16:55.
"Hank had a great senior season and I am looking for him to contribute immediately since he will be one of the very few athletes coming down in elevation from High School to Klamath Falls," mentioned Kegg.
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Posted November 11, 2002; 02:14 p.m.
The Princeton University Players will present "West Side Story" at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 14-16 in Richardson Auditorium.
Directed by hip-hop choreographer and break dancer Daeil Cha '03, this production will feature an innovative approach and will include members of Sympoh, diSiac, Bodyhype, Princeton Shakespeare Company, and several a cappella groups.
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Princeton alumnus nominated to Supreme Court
Posted October 31, 2005; 09:37 a.m.
Princeton alumnus Samuel Alito Jr. has been nominated by President Bush to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alito earned an A.B. in 1972 from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Since 1990, he has been a judge for the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Philadelphia.
A native of Trenton, N.J., Alito earned his law degree in 1975 from Yale Law School, where he was editor of the law journal. He served as assistant to the U.S. solicitor general from 1981 to 1985, arguing 12 cases before the Supreme Court. He was deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration from 1985 to 1987.
From 1987 to 1989, he served as U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, the top prosecutor in one of the nation's largest federal districts.
"Sam was probably the most judicious student I ever had," said
Walter Murphy, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus. "He
had (and still has) a keen intelligence and a fine sense of justice.
When he voiced a judgment, he typically began by fairly stating the
arguments on either side then offering his own conclusion, with a clear
explanation of his reasoning. One might disagree with him but always
respect his reasoning and intellectual integrity."
"He has been a fine judge, a person of deep integrity as well as intelligence," Murphy added.
If confirmed by the Senate, Alito would be the ninth Princetonian to
serve on the Supreme Court. Other Princeton graduates who have served
on the court and the dates of their service are:
- William Paterson, a member of the class of 1763, from 1793 to 1806.
- Oliver Ellsworth, a member of the class of 1766, from 1796 to 1800 (served as chief justice).
- William Johnson Jr., a member of the class of 1790, from 1804 to 1834.
- (Henry) Brockholst Livingston, a member of the class of 1774, from 1806 to 1823.
- Smith Thompson, a member of the class of 1788, from 1823 to 1843.
- James Moore Wayne, a member of the class of 1808, from 1835 to 1867.
- Mahlon Pitney, a member of the class of 1879, from 1912 to 1922.
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Description 2 1/2-5" (6.7-12.5). Color and pattern variable. Dark above, with yellowish bars, spots, blotches, or reticulations. Belly brown with a few yellow spots.
Endangered Status The Sonoran Tiger Salamander, a subspecies of the Tiger Salamander, is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Arizona. This salamander lives in only a few ponds in the San Rafael Valley, between the Huachuca and Patagonia Mountains. Because it occurs in small numbers in very limited habitats, it is a very vulnerable species. Floods and drought have caused the greatest damage to its populations. Predation, especially by introduced fish and bullfrogs, and disease have also taken a toll.
Habitat Ponds in montane grasslands.
Range Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
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Posted 25 December 2009 - 01:24 PM
I will need a protective carrying case/sleeve for it, but I'm not having much luck finding one...anyone have any suggestions?
Also, any chance of offering the class on using your tablet soon? (hopeful)
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Otherwise, if you sew, you could make it a little bag with a drawstring top or something.
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Congrats on your Bamboo! You'll absolutely love it! The Bamboo classes should run again (around) March. If you can't wait 'til then, you can contact Angie about possibly purchasing the class materials to work through with on your own. You can reach Angie at email@example.com.
Posted 28 December 2009 - 04:47 PM
Personally, I don't have a special case, just slip it into my laptop bag. I have heard of them getting scratched, but mine hasn't.
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Astronomy Lecture: "The Ultimate Fate of the Solar System and the Music of the Spheres"
October 20, 2010
7 to 8:30 p.m.
As part of the 12th annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series,
Dr. Gregory Laughlin
, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present
The Ultimate Fate of the Solar System and the Music of the Spheres
Wednesday, Oct. 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the
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The long-term fate of the planets in our Solar System has intrigued astronomers and mathematicians for more than 300 years. Although the planetary orbits are often held up as a model of clockwork regularity, the Solar System is in truth an extremely complex and chaotic system. Dr. Laughlin will explain how very recent advances in computing technology have finally given us a solution to the problem. He will also show how the delicate gravitational interplay between the planets can be interpreted as a true "music of the spheres", and will audition for us the profoundly unsettling compositions that can result in the event that the planetary orbits go haywire in the extremely distant future.
Greg Laughlin is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of California at Santa Cruz. From 1999-2001 he worked as a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. He is a leader in the field of detecting planets around other stars and is also an expert on the long-term fate of the Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy, and the Universe. He is co-author of the popular book "The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity".
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Just noticed that mirwin has a note on his wikipedia user page indicating that he has passed away. In 2008, as far as I can tell, but the Wikipedia page was only updated at the end of 2009; this may be news to other Advogato users.
I knew him only as the only certified master to rate me as master...
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Voters return to the polls today to decide two legislative runoffs in north Mississippi.
Four Northeast Mississippi counties also have election runoffs for other offices.
A special election for Senate District 19 will be on ballots in DeSoto County, and one for House District 52 will be on ballots in parts of DeSoto and Marshall counties.
Voters are choosing successors for former Sen. Merle Flowers of Southaven and former Rep. Tommy Woods of Byhalia. The two Republicans resigned this year.
Winners will serve the final three years of the four-year terms.
The Senate runoff is between optometrist David Parker of Olive Branch and first-term state Rep. Pat Nelson of Southaven.
The House runoff is between Marshall County planning board member Bill Kinkade of Byhalia and contractor Jeremy Bryan of Barton.
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Given the huge popularity of yoga, it's not surprising that there are so many yoga DVDs on the market today. But finding one you really like—and want to do more than once or twice—can be a real challenge. After all, hearing the same phrases and doing the same poses over and over can quickly get old. That's why, if you're a devoted at-home yogi, it's a good idea to find several titles that you can rotate, depending on your mood or desired intensity.
Well-known yoga guru Rodney Yee's latest offering, Power Up Yoga, is probably worth adding to your rotation. Featuring interesting combinations of poses, this flow-style yoga workout is basic enough for beginners to follow, while also offering a challenge for more advanced participants. Although it features traditional poses, the sequences are arranged to build specific aspects of fitness, including strength, cardio and mindfulness.
The workout is divided into three parts that flow together: Connect, which focuses on "power through connection" to build strength and muscle tone in the lower body; Energize, which emphasized calorie burning and enhanced flexibility through the concept of "power as energy"; and Breathe, which promotes "power through stillness" to enhance overall well being. The first two sections definitely get the heart pumping, as Yee leads viewers through a rapid series of two to four poses. While the first section concentrates on the core and lower body with Sun Salutations and Warrior poses, the second section helps stretch out all those muscles that were just worked with poses like flipped dog and twisting triangle. The combinations are unique enough that you aren't lulled into a sense of familiarity that often comes with doing flow yoga on a regular basis.
The sections are designed to be done all at once or individually, allowing exercisers to complete a 20-, 40- or 60-minute workout, depending on time constraints. Yee packs in a lot of different poses, although the workout never feels rushed (Yee's soothing voice definitely helps). But despite the speed of transitions, the poses are easy to follow. Fortunately, Yee's cueing is impeccable (although he doesn't spend a lot of time describing form in detail and the brief introduction may not provide enough guidance for beginners), and those who are familiar with yoga should be able to complete most of the workout without having to continually watch the screen. Those who are newer to yoga may want to check their form and verify poses, but it shouldn't take more than a few viewings before they get up to speed. It should be noted that the setting of the workout is beautiful and the camera angles are varied, but not distracting, so it might be worthwhile to watch just to enjoy the scenery.
For some, the final section will be their favorite, offering a chance to decompress and connect to the breath. For others, this may be the most difficult section to complete, particularly if stillness does not come naturally. It does, however, offer the opportunity to stretch deeply, open up the hips and meditate. Again, Yee's soothing presence and tone greatly enhance this part of the workout.
With Power Up Yoga, Yee has created a fresh take on traditional yoga routines, which will likely appeal to beginning yoga fans, as well as to those who prefer a more fitness- or goal-oriented approach to yoga. And yet Yee still manages to highlight the more mindful aspects of yoga by connecting breath and meditation to movement and relaxation. Vigorous enough to get the heart pounding and the muscles working, yet also featuring guided meditation and deep stretches, Power Up Yoga is a great addition to the at-home yogi's DVD library.
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Yamada and Ji honored by American Physical Society
Posted December 13, 2002; 05:39 p.m.
Masaaki Yamada and Hantao Ji, scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory , have received the American Physical Society's 2002 Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research.
Yamada and Ji were honored along with Troy Carter and Scott Hsu, who earned Ph.D degrees at Princeton in 2001 and 2000, respectively, and also worked at the laboratory.
The society cited their research conducted on the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment at the plasma physics laboratory, citing "the experimental investigation of driven magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma." Magnetic reconnection is the breaking and topological rearrangement of magnetic field lines in a plasma -- a hot, ionized gas. It is one of the most fundamental processes of plasma physics and has important relevance to fusion research, as well as to the physics of the earth's magnetosphere and solar flares.
Yamada is a distinguished research fellow at the laboratory and head of the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment. Ji is a research physicist at the laboratory.
Carter is now an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California-Los Angeles. Hsu is a fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, funded by the Department of Energy and managed by the University, is a collaborative national center for science and innovation leading to an attractive fusion energy source.
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By Robbie Ward/NEMS Daily Journal
Tupelo city primary elections are Tuesday, and there have been some changes in ward lines and precincts from the last election. City Clerk Kim Hanna answered questions from Daily Journal government reporter Robbie Ward about polling location changes and how to prevent voter confusion.
Q. What election-related changes have happened in Tupelo since the 2009 city elections?
A. Wards 2, 3 and 4 will have changes, while Wards 1, 5, 6, and 7 will keep the same precinct locations from four years ago. For voters in Ward 2, Wesley United Methodist Church is the new polling place. Ward 3 has the Lawndale Presbyterian Church, but the Lee County Courthouse is a new precinct for the ward. Even though we're temporarily using the Link Centre as a precinct in Ward 4, it's not going to be a permanent voting location.
Q. What can voters do to make sure they have a voting experience that's as smooth as possible?
A. If they're unsure where to vote, they can give us a call to make sure they're listed in the poll book. If they're not, we can point them in the right direction. Voters can call 841-6505 or 841-6506 with any questions.
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