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Monster Cracks by Pete Whittaker

LocationsBy LukeApril 15, 2021Leave 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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Hidden Dragons by Chris Schulte

LocationsBy LukeApril 14, 2021Leave a comment

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

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Climbing En Plein Air by Birch Malotky

LocationsBy LukeApril 13, 2021Leave a comment

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

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Elegant and Brutal by Cristina Marcalow

LocationsBy LukeApril 6, 2021Leave 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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Suicide and Pirates by Andrew Allport

LocationsBy LukeApril 2, 20215 Comments

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

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Brooke Sandahl on the beginnings of freeing The Nose

LocationsBy LukeMarch 22, 2021Leave 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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Fall on Rock by George Perkins

LocationsBy LukeMarch 21, 2021Leave a comment

I clipped her to the anchor, untied her knot, and pulled the rope through the gear. “I need more time.”…

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

LocationsBy LukeMarch 17, 2021Leave 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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Mountaineering Changed My Perspective On Beauty by Rebecca Ross

LocationsBy LukeMarch 15, 2021Leave a comment

Most women, at some point in their lives, get discouraged about their appearance because they may not possess the ideal…

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Icons In Danger and Desert Medicine by Birch Malotky

LocationsBy LukeMarch 14, 2021Leave a 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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The Joy Pendulum, Swinging High and Low in Yosemite Valley by Lauren DeLaunay

LocationsBy LukeMarch 11, 2021Leave 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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Do Not Go Outside To Cry by Kathy Karlo

LocationsBy LukeMarch 2, 2021Leave 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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Finding Protection In Bears Ears by Josh Ewing

LocationsBy LukeFebruary 25, 2021Leave a comment

“Yucca sandals,” I say to myself. “How’d they do this move in yucca sandals?” The sheer sandstone wall below me…

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Close Calls, Core Shots, and Space Shots by Amanda Kiessel

LocationsBy LukeFebruary 24, 2021Leave a comment

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

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Patience by Chris Schulte

LocationsBy LukeFebruary 23, 2021Leave a 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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