Posts Tagged ‘chris schulte’

  • Old Becomes New in Indian Creek by Chris Schulte

    Aug 27, 19 • 6093 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    November is closing in fast, and on this turn around the fireball, we reach a strange and interesting milestone in American rock climbing. Forty years ago, Earl Wiggins shouldered a rack of hexes and set out on the FA of a smooth and parallel-sided crack...

  • Hidden Dragons by Chris Schulte

    Dec 27, 18 • 7556 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    I started climbing in Durango, Colorado, a small and isolated burg on the edge of the desert and the mountains, pushing up against the mesa farmlands that run along scarce western rivers. All climbing called to me: Mini routes in the alpine above Silverton,...

  • Wide Is Love by Chris Schulte

    Dec 14, 18 • 1863 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    Gray and white clouds rack up in billowed folds like the belly scales of a snake and curl widely across the winded and golden sway-grass plain, crackle dry and wetted now and then by passing scattered storms. This rolling stretch of yellow land drones on and...

  • Patience by Chris Schulte

    Jan 18, 18 • 5312 Views • Locations • • No Comments

    It starts with a plan like a break in the clouds. We set out thinking on the lines, the foods, the sunrises and campfires, the saving up. And then you set to with the forty-second aspen tree planted that day, the twenty-third special with sauce on the side,...