Locations

“If Jesus can’t save you, life starts when the church ends.” Empire State of Mind by Jay Z Some call…

It’s 1981, and I’m 22 years old, about to graduate from college, trying to sort out what happens next. And…

The Korean folklore goes: the Creator called upon all domes and boulders of Korea to gather up north, where they…

I. Trapped Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital, June 2018 The haul bag sits, a stuffed pig in the trunk. Cams, nuts,…

Mudstrosity Yes, it wobbled. Three feet high, one foot wide, a foot deep, probably outweighing me, the block sat at…

Joshua Tree National Park is a refuge. I don’t know if I’d decided this by then, sitting folded into the…

Journal entry from 10/15/2014 Zion is the word. Despite all of our differences, to so many people the meaning of…

I see it being used all around me to describe women, often by other women: badass. I have always considered…

I remember arguing with my partner about wearing his helmet before starting a climb for the day. “It’s only 5.9,”…

“Life can be rugged and cold, or smooth and exciting. The climb these two have just performed today symbolizes life…

November is closing in fast, and on this turn around the fireball, we reach a strange and interesting milestone in…

“Hey, wake up. Wake up!” Brian whispered harshly. “There’s someone out there.” I half opened an eye and begrudgingly listened…

You know you’re getting old when they start replacing the bolts you used for a first ascent. That was my…

In 2016 at the International Climbers’ Festival in Lander, Wyoming, we held a “love letter to climbing” contest. Ana Ally was…

Man what a route! As a child, I remember looking at photos of it in my Dad’s climbing books thinking,…