Posts Tagged ‘trad’

  • Awake On El Cap by Tristan Greszko

    Feb 21, 17 • 3588 Views • Locations • • 2 Comments

    Awake. Alone. It’s 3 am. Only two more hours to sleep, the clock is ticking. The world is silent.  Maybe there’s a breath of wind here and there.  Late July in California and it isn’t hot at all – I’m in a big puffy coat, sitting on a...

  • Jugs on Jugs by Gaelen Engler

    Feb 8, 17 • 35231 Views • Locations • • 22 Comments

    Pulling into The Chief campground in Squamish for my first time, I had to double-check the sign to make sure my boyfriend and I hadn’t driven into the training ground for a traveling circus. Uncoordinated, poutin-hungry tourists from China and Montreal...

  • A Climber In The Winter of His Content

    Jan 28, 17 • 6033 Views • Indian Creek • • 1 Comment

    “You know there’s something special you’re needing. And you know there’s no drug that’ll do the healing, and no liquor in the land to stop your brain from bleeding. You need something special to open up a new door, to show you something you’ve...

  • Climbing Past War by Stacy Bare

    Nov 9, 16 • 5120 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    The uninitiated, those who don’t climb, always ask me why I do. I normally begin my response with the statement that I don’t climb enough. I’m a marginal climber at best and am thankful for many far superior climbing partners who humor me struggling up...

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

    Jul 31, 16 • 1073 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...

  • Benighted in The Black Canyon – (excerpt from American Climber by Luke Mehall)

    Jul 28, 16 • 3029 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    My path as a climber had to face a most real enemy: pure unadulterated fear. This fear manifested itself in the biggest baddest canyon, nearby, the most intimidating chasm in Colorado, and even the entire United States, The Black Canyon. Excerpt from American...

  • Flirting with The Nose In A Day in The Valley of Stone

    Jun 22, 16 • 4488 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” Goerte I grew up in the traditions of western science and puritan pragmatism. Success is earned through work, luck is the sum of preparation, a penny saved is a...

  • The Long Run, a profile of Alan Carne by Luke Mehall

    Jun 13, 16 • 3020 Views • Locations • • 1 Comment

    “There were no girls when I started climbing [in England],” Alan said, in a tone more serious than joking. I’d just met Alan Carne only twenty-four hours before, on a warm September day seeking refuge in the shade of the 4×4 Wall at Indian Creek,...