Every summer I spend many nights camped in the mountains, and this year has been no different. Alpine weather and conditions in my favorite local… Read More »Mountain Hardwear UltraLamina 32: My #1 Sleeping Bag
A team of ten women from Australia and the USA come together to attempt to climb three of Africa’s highest peaks in less than three… Read More »3 Peaks, 3 Weeks
I just returned from a rock-climbing trip to northern Patagonia’s Bariloche, where we visited the new areas of La Buitrera and Roca Parada, a thousand-foot… Read More »Metolius Ultralight Power Cams: A Perfect Rack-Up Buddy
There are a multitude of reasons we climb–more often than not they are expressed in pithy, sound-bite phrases like Mallory’s “Because it’s there.” Within, Mike… Read More »Interview: Mike Robertson on His Eiffel Tower Protest Solo
Until today, I thought the Russians, exemplified by Odintsov’s “Russian Big Walls Project”, were completely unstoppable. Even though Rocky did eventually beat Ivan Drago in… Read More »“In the Cracks there were Bats and Spiders of Giant Sizes”
I would like to announce the launch of IceClimbingUtah.com, a new resource that will aggregate ice conditions across Utah…
