Will Gadd Climbs Newfoundland Choss Towers
Seeking the landscape captured in a friend’s photo, Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken travel to Newfoundland’s coastal sea stacks, an area little known to climbers (perhaps for good reason).
What the New NPS Wilderness Climbing Policy Means for Climbers and Bolting
For decades, the future legality of fixed anchor use in Wilderness areas remained uncertain. Because land management agencies had no national guidance to assist local planners and managers, each local park and national forest was left to interpret the Wilderness Act–as it pertains to fixed anchors–on its own, and with wildly varying results. Last month the NPS issued Director’s Order #41 to finally clarify the agency’s management policy in Wilderness areas. Jason Keith of the Access Fund tells us what is means for climbers.
Desperate Country: Seven Days on the Fence
Over seven days, Jens Holsten and Chad Kellogg made their way across the toothy ridgeline of the Northern and Southern Pickets in the Cascade Mountains. The ten-mile linkup would be one of the longest routes in the Lower 48–had they completed it.
