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Introducing The Microdose Mixtape
Introducing our first ever mixtape from The Climbing Zine. The Microdose Mixtape pairs Luke Mehall’s spoken word poetry, with the music of Devin Dabney. Enjoy. Merch is available here: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Tapes and vinyl will be available shortly
Comin’ In From The Top by Chris Schulte
Way back when, which seems like not so long ago, your guidebooks tended to be a few pages of the barest drab info. Stapled, folded, printed in black and white, with a poor font and a quick-to-mellow yellowish cover of a slightly higher poundage of press that, nevertheless, tended to feature a look like they…
“Zine Thing” in Lander on June 27th at Wild Iris Mountain Sports
We are psyched to announce that our next “Zine Thing” will be at Wild Iris Mountain Sports in Lander, Wyoming on Thursday, June 27th. The event is FREE. Luke Mehall will tell stories from The Zine, and we’ll also include stories from the audience. Have a story you’d like to tell? Please contact Luke at…
A Campfire Tale With The Old Man In The Desert by Stewart M. Green
The sun’s last rays glance across the underside of a cloud-swept November sky as it sets south of the La Sal Mountains’ pointed peaks. The light, poking through a swath of blue above the horizon, sets the cloud bellies on fire, creating a tapestry of orange and gold and pale gray, and bathing Lost World…
As Long As Life Endures: A Climber Wedding by Sara Aranda
“Life can be rugged and cold, or smooth and exciting. The climb these two have just performed today symbolizes life and all of its trials and excitements,” read our officiant. “…All love is enclosed in our love: / all thirst ends in our embrace,” I read, starting an excerpt from “Ode and Burgeonings” by Pablo…
The Eleventh Hour of Half Dome by Jason Haas
Climbing with a pack on is the worst. It’s heavy, it’s awkward, and you don’t even use half its contents in the end anyway. I was stuck, by all accounts of the word. I couldn’t go up; I couldn’t go down; I couldn’t go sideways. I was stuck. And it was all because of this…
From The Ice Rink To The Ice Climb with Taylor Luneau
A conversation with Taylor Luneau. Taylor discovered climbing after an injury derailed his ice hockey career. Taylor and Luke have a wide ranging conversation from local climbing organizations to the relationship of climate change and ice climbing, and much more. Plus in the outro is the premiere of the poem 5.6+ from the upcoming Microdose…