There’s a reason you clip everything to your harness when climbing long routes: If you…
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A Very Special Christmas Climb
“So I was thinking,” I said to Dustin in front of his house in Phoenix,…
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Adventure Journal’s “Great Mountains of the World”: Grand Teton
My profile of the Grand Teton is up on Adventure Journal today — if you’ve…
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The Dirtbag Diaries: The Way of the Underdog
This is my friend Jayson. When I’m telling people about him, a lot of times…
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How to Shit in the Woods, and How Not To
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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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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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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Review: Levi’s Climbing Jeans for Men
Maybe you missed some of the Internet chatter a few weeks back when Levi’s announced…
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The perfect downtown Denver bouldering wall I biked right past a hundred times
I must have pedaled past this wall on the Cherry Creek bike path 200 times…
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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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The Flatirons: The Joy Of Romping Up Easy Rock
“This is the kind of climbing I like!” -My pal Brian, pitch 2, Saturday, February…
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