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PMI Spire 10.2mm Rope: Dry to the Core
Several years ago I humped a 92-pound pack full of the cheapest, heaviest climbing gear in the world uphill for several days in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. We’re talking old school: full-gate oval biners on everything; 11mm ropes; old, rigid-stem Friends; big hexes; everything horrid you can imagine. I seriously debated purchasing either a large…
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Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit
A spoof of the Discovery Channel Show, Everest: Beyond the Limit, created after an incident when the director realized he was more than a little out of breath after climbing only four flights of stairs to the top of a parking garage to fetch his car.
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The American Death Triangle and Other Practical Climbing Techniques
Learn to climb. Watch YouTube.
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BASE Climbing on Cerro Torre
At 9 a.m. on February 25, 2008, Russian Valery Rozov was the first person to BASE jump off of Cerro Torre…
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Cochamo: Into the Forest
“So far we had little luck finding any climbing in Chile. But in a pension in Pucon there was a small photo on the wall showing a distant view of some interesting-looking cliffs, on a mountaintop above some woods. Our interest was roused immediately when, by chance, a local raft guide commented that no one…
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Where’s the climbing love?
Recently, I was in an expensive, albeit nice, climbing gym, four hours from where I live. The girl behind the counter was seemingly absorbed in her charge as the sentry of the gym…
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Lowe Alpine Air Zone Centro 35+10: Desert Trekker
Frequently I am accused of being a pack snob. It started way back in college when I had a part-time job sewing backpacks for a small outdoor company in Bellingham, WA. The owner and I would stay late tweaking, modifying and otherwise trying to improve the current line of packs as well as our personal…
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Ascending The Giants
For a pair of arborist-adventurers, climbing isn’t just something to do on a cliff. A journey into the canopy of Washington’s Olympic National Park.
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Obsession and Ingenuity, Part IV: Kansas
“We live in Lawrence, Kansas, my friend, a small college town lost in a sea of plains. If by local crag you mean a two-hour drive to some crumbling, dripping limestone in Missouri, then sure, that’s our local crag.”
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Arc’teryx R-320 Harness: Everything You Want, Nothing You Don’t
“It’s the single piece of gear I’m excited about buying this year,” said Nic, my gearhead friend, about the new line of Arc’teryx harnesses. It was an unusual comment–the thought of controlled spending–for someone who has a steady job and climbs or skis every day. Nevertheless, I told Nic he had his priorities straight. If…
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