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Mar 26, 20 •
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We know you’re stoked to “read the zine” and “wear the zine” so we’re now offering a deal every week. Here’s what we have going on this week. Our current sales: $2 zines (Volumes 12-16). Bundle of Volume 12-17 for...
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Feb 9, 20 •
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Note: this piece was published way back in Volume 2. That zine out of print, but you can pick one up on Kindle for $0.99. For me, it has always been about the Mother. Since the first time a Zen dishwasher took me climbing just outside Gunnison, Colorado, I...
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Dec 21, 18 •
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At The Zine we’ve got a plan. We started out small, really small, and we printed like 100 copies per issue. In 2019 that number will grow to 10,000 copies per issue. Our mission is to get as many people as possible reading The Zine! And part of that...
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Oct 19, 18 •
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My college years in The Desert were adventurous and crazy, a complete immersion in the unknown. After I graduated, I began to roam from climbing area to climbing area, and The Desert seemed like just another destination on the circuit. It was in that era that...
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Oct 18, 18 •
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The teenage Federale slings his machine gun over his shoulder and bends toward my bag. Cocaine? he asks. Marijuana? I have a stash of weed stuffed in an ibuprofen container in the outside zipper of my backpack. No, I say. Josh stands behind me. He doesn’t...
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Jun 25, 18 •
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At some point in my early to midtwenties, I came to the conclusion that life is not about rock climbing. There’s just too much other crazy shit happening every day on this beautiful clump of space dust. The older I get, however, the more I realize that...
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May 18, 17 •
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Doug Tompkins opens the door to a South American summer evening. At seventy-one—stooped and shuffling, a button-down shirt tucked into khakis and held up with a leather belt—he’s not exactly the climbing jock he once was. Looking up through kind, brown...
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Sep 30, 14 •
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In the Last Pitch section of the new Climbing Zine, there’s a great, sentimental piece, written by Mallory Logan. Titled “The Mom Crux” Logan waxes philosophically about the parallels between climbing and motherhood. She writes,...
