Climbing Culture

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

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

My friends are gettin’ older, So I guess I must be too. Without their loving kindness, I don’t know what…

***UPDATED on 5/7 WITH NEW NUMBERS**** This year has started off a bit rocky for our print publication. Our print…

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

Remember when, a while back, some prominent climbers were proclaiming, “the dirtbag is dead”? Well, they were right, it is.…

Me and my higher self, We often would speak Somehow we lost the connection, Might meet at Joshua Tree —Nas,…

I am a writer, too, kinda. I am also writing a novel. I’m working on a novel. I also write.…

This is the most beautiful place on Earth, but of course, like Cactus Ed Abbey said, every person carries in…

Chuck Pratt: Liquid Sunshine by Pat Ament (note the full version of this piece was published in Volume 17, which…

If there’s a hill I’m willing to die on, it’s in the land we call Indian Creek, a part of…

TC, The OG, a conversation with Tommy Caldwell dropped this week on our DSOM podcast. We have an interesting, wide…

I don’t really have the time to write this article about Outdoor Retailer—as a small business owner the little voice…

There’s a lot of information out there about how to belay, and sure, the mechanics of holding a rope are…

We are in the middle of our KEEP THE ZINE alive campaign, well, at the beginning really. The goal is…