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Climbing Culture

New Option for our Current Subscribers to Support The Zine + Get Hooked Up

Climbing CultureBy LukeFebruary 2, 2023Leave a comment

As we are embarking on our “keep the zine alive” campaign to add 2,000 new subscribers, many of our current…

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Keep The Zine Alive in 2023

Climbing CultureBy LukeFebruary 2, 2023Leave a comment

Last year around this time I wrote a short post called “Keep The Zine Alive”. We had lost a couple…

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Dancing With The Queen (excerpt from Volume 22) by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeFebruary 2, 2023Leave a comment

In my body, I’m a climber; in my imagination, I’m a rapper. The poets of my generation are MCs—embodiments of…

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Meltdown by Beth Rodden

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 31, 2023Leave a comment

Note from the editor of the Valley of Giants book, Lauren DeLaunay Miller: A book about the women of Yosemite…

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So You Got Your Knee Stuck by Kaya Lindsay

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 30, 2023Leave a comment

“There’s someone on that off-width you wanted to do.”   I pause—midstride—and look up to see someone hanging out halfway…

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A Journey Through Time by Adam Ferro

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 29, 2023Leave a comment

The expenditure of energy on a trip of this sort is massive and one only has so much of this…

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To Chip or Not to Chip by Adam Ondra

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 23, 2023Leave a comment

I love being challenged by the nature that has been sculpting the rock faces of our planet for many centuries.…

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Traumzeit: Sandstone Dreamtime by Tanager

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 23, 2023Leave a comment

A black fin of sandstone protrudes from the right side of the crack. I pinch it like a tufa and…

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Fill The Void by Shay Skinner

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 22, 2023Leave a comment

The reflection targets my disfigurement. If only the borders of this mirror could protect the rest of the world from…

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A Knot Like Infinity by North Bennett

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 17, 2023Leave a comment

Fifteen meters up Rutabaga, a moderate 5.9 splitter at the base of Squamish, BC’s Stawamus Chief, stretches a traverse between…

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Staying Hungry on the Salathe by Brittany Goris (Full Story)

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 13, 2023Leave a comment

“Keep dreamin’, stay hungry, and remember that there is no finish line.”    This quote by Todd Skinner in the…

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

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 11, 20231 Comment

“There were no girls when I started climbing [in England],” Alan said, in a tone more serious than joking. I’d…

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Echoes of Expansion: Taking Our Gear for a Walk in the North Cascades by Katie Griffith

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 9, 2023Leave a comment

Yeah, we are star matter from the big bang   And that love ain’t far behind you   Love ain’t…

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Replacing The Seamstress Corner with Dave Marcinowski by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 6, 20231 Comment

There are climbing partners, and there are the climbing partners. The partner you want to climb to the ends of…

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Brad Gobright, Pure of Heart by Lucas Roman (Full Story)

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 4, 2023Leave a comment

by Lucas Roman. This story is published in Volume 18. Banner photo by Hobo Greg Brad Gobright is pure of…

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