It was the night before my 5-day backpacking trip with five tough teenagers from East…
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A Lesson On How To Live, From Climber Craig DeMartino
I tried to pull around a corner on nothing, the crux moves of the third…
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Can Bikram Yoga improve your rock climbing?
It is 105 degrees in this room, 50 percent humidity. Seven of us are standing…
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How to Talk Shit to Your Climbing Partner
“Hey, can you take photos with your phone?” I yell down from the belay to…
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One more pitch: How do you reset the stoke meter?
Sometimes men grow boobs. This is just a fact of aging, or more accurately, the…
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How to Properly Put On a 40-Pound Backpack
By Brian Williams, Southern Gentleman, World Traveler and Hopeful Somebody Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho …
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Make your road trip 40 percent better with FIST PUMP OUT THE WINDOW
Remember your last road trip, the day you left town? Wherever it was, whenever —…
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It’s A Tiny Bear Canister, For Tiny Bears
I have learned many things from my friend Lee: How to place gear on trad…
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Photo of climbing couple tossing baby: Real or fake?
Maybe you’ve seen this photo somewhere on the Internet before. I came across it the…
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Inside the Smokey Bear Costume For a Day
I have a drip of sweat on the end of my nose. It itches, hanging…
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9 Reasons Why You Should Never Bike To Work
I have biked everywhere within 4 miles of my apartment in the past 5 years,…
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Advanced Techniques For The Well-Rounded Rock Climber
I don’t know if Tom Hanson, the Commisioner of Castlewood Canyon, made it up, but…
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The friend you want along on every climb
“We’re going to take a little drive down Wall Street and check it out.” This…
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You don’t have to clip that to the outside of your backpack
I was renting this guy a backpack and 3-person backpacking tent when I worked at…
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Everybody needs a Grand Tour
A little over a year ago, I was bicycling across the country with my friend…
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Climbing, Car Accidents, Motorcycles, Risk, and Danger: What’s Worth It?
Since March 15th, two good friends of mine have been in car accidents that could…
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Tricking ourselves into getting in shape
I was sitting in The Shoppe, a cupcake and cereal place in Denver, with my…
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Buy the newest, lightest, shiniest gear today or you could die out there
There’s a single paragraph in Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing: The Education…
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Should I buy that new piece of ultralight gear, or just go to the bathroom first?
The average human poop event weighs between 7.3 and 9.3 ounces, according to an Iranian…
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Climbers: Jim Thornburg’s ‘Stone Mountains’ Will Make You Happy
I review books and movies for the Mountain Gazette, which means I have to read…
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