Adventures with Mark Grundon, a climber with an infinite amount of energy, who endures an avalanche and cancer all while going through his senior year of college. This link will get you 25% off anything in our online store: https://shop.climbingzine.com/discount/DIRTBAG%2520PODCAST Read more stories/watch videos/explore: https://climbingzine.com
Luke and Dave cruise The Cruise in The Black Canyon, and then on the Painted Wall, Colorado’s tallest wall, well, let’s just say they don’t cruise that one. Benighted again. But this time there was room to spoon! Subscribe/ get a copy of The Zine here: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Read more stories/watch videos/explore: https://climbingzine.com
Everybody poops, including us in Indian Creek. Luke and Tim Foulkes discuss a variety of Indian Creek issues: first ascents, replacing anchors, good land use ethics, and of course, pooping in The Creek. (Poop in a toilet, or pack it out yo!) Oh, and pleeeeeaaase VOTE! Subscribe/ get a copy of The Zine here: https://shop.climbingzine.com/…
Humbled The cam lobes slide in the fissure as I test it, useless. This dark, metamorphic rock, tortured entrails of a bygone continent, is too slick and brittle for our modern hardware. As if the old recognizes the young: Who are you, whippersnapper, with your eVent fabrics and C3 cams? Come up here as your…
Season Finale. Mehall goes all in on new routes in Indian Creek, Bears Ears National Monument; following the adventure all the way “to the moon”…too good to think it would ever get any better. Subscribe/ get a copy of The Zine here: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Read more stories/watch videos/explore: https://climbingzine.com Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16583450
In the mail that day came The Climbing Zine. It was addressed to Alyssa. I knew she wouldn’t mind me opening it, but I shot her a text asking her permission anyway. It was during the first wave of COVID in Boston and throughout the hard-hit East Coast. This letter is published in the new…
Luke Mehall explores Indian Creek, Utah for new routes; the land now part of Bears Ears National Monument. In the midst of the search he finds his passion expanding exponentially. Subscribe/ get a copy of The Zine here: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Read more stories/watch videos/explore: https://climbingzine.com Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16583450
When I heard that Jim Bridwell had died, my first thought was, I bet even he didn’t think he’d live this long. Between pushing the boundaries of rock climbing and the psychedelic experience, the cigarettes and the wine, the trips to the big mountains, who would have guessed he’d make it to social security? by…