Climbing Culture

I’ve been working on my first ever “mixtape” – a collection of my poetry, paired with music from Devin Dabney.…

Pulling into The Chief campground in Squamish for my first time, I had to double-check the sign to make sure…

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

***UPDATED on 6/7 WITH NEW NUMBERS**** This year has started off a bit rocky for our print publication. Our print…

The Factory Bouldering Gym in Orange, California, was by no means small, but it felt small that day. In addition…

Last weekend I learned of the demise of Climbing magazine in print, as everyone else did: on the internet. I…

Note: this piece was originally published in the Durango Telegraph newspaper. After a decade plus of writing for The Telegraph,…

Editor’s note: Longtime Climbing Zine contributor D Scott Borden wrote this piece for Volume 7, and sadly as the Zine…

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

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

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

Volume 21 is here. Cover shot of Brittany Goris by Garet Bleir Five Rings by Alex Johnson The Art of…

I’ve spent much of my adult life working towards a dream—a writing dream, infused with climbing—that has largely come true.…

This winter I’ve had the fever. No, not the fever for more cowbell, or the fever from COVID (thankfully), but…

UPDATE: the second edition of Squeak! has been released. Same great story, with a couple updates, including The Climbers Pact…