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Adventures With Two Tent Timmy by Luke Mehall

LocationsBy LukeJune 20, 2022Leave a comment

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

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A Marriage On The Rocks by Barbara Noseworthy

LocationsBy LukeJune 19, 2022Leave 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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Parallel Traditions by Angela Lee

LocationsBy LukeJune 14, 2022Leave a 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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Elegant and Brutal by Cristina Marcalow

LocationsBy LukeJune 5, 2022Leave a 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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Choss by Steve “Crusher” Bartlett

LocationsBy LukeJune 4, 2022Leave 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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Icons In Danger and Desert Medicine by Birch Malotky

LocationsBy LukeMay 19, 20221 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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Approach As Pilgrimage by Tim Rogers

LocationsBy LukeMay 12, 2022Leave 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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Do Not Go Outside To Cry by Kathy Karlo

LocationsBy LukeApril 27, 2022Leave a comment

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

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Upside Down and Unconscious by Shay Skinner

LocationsBy LukeApril 11, 2022Leave a comment

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

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As Long As Life Endures: A Climber Wedding by Sara Aranda

LocationsBy LukeMarch 24, 2022Leave a comment

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

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Old Becomes New in Indian Creek by Chris Schulte

LocationsBy LukeMarch 20, 20221 Comment

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

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A Narrow Escape on Mt. Kenya by Jason Haas

LocationsBy LukeMarch 9, 20221 Comment

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

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The Art of The First Ascent by Luke Mehall

LocationsBy LukeFebruary 24, 20223 Comments

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

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A Love Letter To Climbing by Ana Ally

LocationsBy LukeFebruary 14, 20221 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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Brooke Sandahl on the beginnings of freeing The Nose

LocationsBy LukeFebruary 6, 2022Leave a comment

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

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