Climbing Culture

I’d been driving past this rock, near Hanksville, for years. It’s just begging to be climbed but looked impossible without…

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Banner photo: The author on her winter project, Crystal Dawn (5.13d), Red Rocks, Nevada by Max Barlerin Waiting for a…

At some point in my early to midtwenties, I came to the conclusion that life is not about rock climbing.…

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

As I’ve said and written before, my favorite thing about publishing The Zine is the connections it helps create. I…

UPDATE: the paperback edition of Squeak! has been released. You can get a copy of the book here. Longtime Zine…

Dear Kurt, This is a letter I don’t want to write. Writing is often difficult to get started, but this…

Dearest Luke, I have been meaning to write to you for some time, but I have Zine 23 fresh on…

I started this painting over a year ago after seeing a beautiful sunrise over the North Six-Shooter. It was a…

Don’t you put any more stress on yourself It’s one day at a time —Mac Miller, “Circles” Part of me…

shooshing v. 1. Acting cowardly while climbing for no tangible reason. Note this piece is published in Volume 18…

I started listening to the Grateful Dead a week before Jerry Garcia died. The year was 1995 and it happened…

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