Locations

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

I clipped her to the anchor, untied her knot, and pulled the rope through the gear. “I need more time.”…

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

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

As I listened to my boyfriend make his tenth phone call of the hour, I absentmindedly stirred vegetables and reflected…

The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things… …

The black-and-white photograph is small and square, half a century old, showing my grandmother posing in front of the dark,…

Walking up to the base of Freerider, I felt rested, light, but increasingly nervous. Two years ago, I’d never climbed…

I’ve heard some describe Yosemite as a vortex, and so is the culture that comes with it. I am sucked…

My path as a climber had to face a most real enemy: pure unadulterated fear. This fear manifested itself in…

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

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

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

I started climbing in Durango, Colorado, a small and isolated burg on the edge of the desert and the mountains,…

It starts with a plan like a break in the clouds. We set out thinking on the lines, the foods,…