Locations

In the late 1300s, experts point to drought and other environmental stressors impacting the Puebloan people in the Southwest leading…

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

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

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

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

The uninitiated, those who don’t climb, always ask me why I do. I normally begin my response with the statement…

It was getting dark, and I was wedged hot dog–style in a two-man tent between two college boys who hadn’t…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…