Locations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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