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Texas Tower Redux by Josh Smith

LocationsBy LukeMay 17, 2025Leave a comment

Think back over your climbing career. I bet you’ll find a climb—or two—that define you. These won’t be your hardest…

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Parallel Traditions by Yeongju Lee

LocationsBy LukeMay 8, 20251 Comment

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

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Choss by Steve “Crusher” Bartlett

LocationsBy LukeMay 2, 2025Leave a comment

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

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Approach As Pilgrimage by Tim Rogers

LocationsBy LukeMay 1, 2025Leave a comment

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

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Volume 25 is Printed and Ready To Order (read the story list)

LocationsBy LukeApril 13, 2025Leave a comment

Story/poetry list for our new Zine, Volume 25, which is now printed. Big congratulations to all the writers. Due to…

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Patience by Chris Schulte

LocationsBy LukeApril 11, 20251 Comment

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

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Monster Cracks by Pete Whittaker

LocationsBy LukeMarch 29, 2025Leave a comment

Over hundreds of thousands of years, water has trickled, raged, and poured down cracks and creases, winding and weaving through…

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A Love Letter To Climbing by Ana Ally

LocationsBy LukeFebruary 14, 20251 Comment

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

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Icons In Danger and Desert Medicine by Birch Malotky

LocationsBy LukeJanuary 25, 20251 Comment

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

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Shane in the Clouds

Hypoxic Dreams by Vic Zeilman

LocationsBy LukeJanuary 19, 2025Leave a comment

It’s a dingy bar. Dark and musty. Where, I’m not exactly sure, but there is a feeling of sadness that…

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Silent Partners by Luke Mehall

LocationsBy LukeJanuary 6, 20252 Comments

I know he knows. Adam Lawton is proud. In every group of adventurers, there is a leader, and every great…

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A Marriage On The Rocks by Barbara Noseworthy

LocationsBy LukeDecember 21, 2024Leave a comment

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

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The Joy Pendulum, Swinging High and Low in Yosemite Valley by Lauren DeLaunay

LocationsBy LukeDecember 8, 2024Leave a comment

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

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Elegant and Brutal by Cristina Marcalow

LocationsBy LukeDecember 1, 20241 Comment

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

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Creeksgiving by Luke Mehall

LocationsBy LukeNovember 28, 2024Leave a comment

No place soaks up sun like the Johnny Cat enclave at the Cat Wall, Indian Creek. The maroon cliffs are…

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