Locations

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

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

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…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

My father taught me how to climb, just as he taught me how to play guitar and ski—badly, I could…