Posts Tagged ‘rhiannon williams’

  • Powders of Persuasion by Luke Mehall

    Oct 6, 18 • 609 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    My college years in The Desert were adventurous and crazy, a complete immersion in the unknown. After I graduated, I began to roam from climbing area to climbing area, and The Desert seemed like just another destination on the circuit.   It was in that...

  • A Venture Backward, Inward, and Upward by Rhiannon Williams

    May 29, 18 • 3067 Views • Climbing Culture • • No Comments

    In Memory of Towyn Williams (1926 – 2016) I associate much of my childhood with a little white farmhouse in the Welsh countryside. My roots are firmly planted there. Planted between the rows of strawberries and the tunnels of raspberry bushes. by Rhiannon...

  • Technology and Climbing by Cyrena Lee

    May 9, 17 • 1440 Views • Uncategorized • • No Comments

    If you are sick of new climbers coming in and ruining everything, do something about it. If you hate how distracted you are by technology, put the phone down and climb. If you love climbing outside, do something about it to save it. If you are dissatisfied in...

  • Sacred Space by Drew Thayer (art by Rhiannon Williams)

    Jul 31, 16 • 1975 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    Right now, this detail is all that matters: the carabiner just fell back into the crack, and you’re staring it down as if it’s the only damn thing in the whole universe. Your middle finger brushes it aside on the first pass, then just lightly levers it...

  • The Sisterhood of the Rope by Rhiannon Williams

    Dec 2, 15 • 4408 Views • Locations • • 1 Comment

    We pull into the Supercrack parking lot in a rusty, mud smothered Subaru, named Shelly. The lot is dotted with similar vehicles, their windows all dusted by relentless desert sand, (some of which have been decorated by a climber’s tough calloused finger)....