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Go To The Desert (a poem) by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeMay 3, 2017Leave a comment

Go to the desert Or whatever place Is The Desert To You by Luke Mehall, photo by: Greg Cairns For…

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ISO: My Dirtbag Princess

LocationsBy LukeApril 21, 2017Leave a comment

Note: this piece appears in the Off Route column of the newest Zine, Volume 10, The Raw Issue.  Hello, I…

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Oh Baby I Like It Raw, New Routes In The Desert by Luke Mehall

UncategorizedBy LukeApril 14, 2017Leave a comment

Oh baby I like it raw,  Yeah baby I like it raw  —Ol’ Dirty Bastard, “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” It’s a…

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Explaining a Memorial Toilet

Climbing CultureBy LukeMarch 30, 20172 Comments

A memorial toilet is a hard thing to explain. But that’s exactly what my friends were constructing last weekend, a…

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The Next Generation, an excerpt from Graduating From College Me by Luke Mehall

LocationsBy LukeNovember 28, 2016Leave a comment

This young hippie left a bag of his groceries with my stuff after last weekend climbing in the Creek—granola, ramen,…

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Graduating From College Me, Mehall grows up (and embarrasses himself)

UncategorizedBy LukeOctober 17, 2016Leave a comment

When I was 33 I set a goal to write five books by the time I was forty—for a while…

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For The Love of Climbing, A Short Film by Kathy Karlo

UncategorizedBy LukeAugust 9, 2016Leave a comment

Good friend of The Climbing Zine, and contributor for our next issue, Kathy Karlo recently created this beautiful short film…

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Protecting Abbey Country – Love Letters To The Desert

LocationsBy LukeMarch 20, 2016Leave a comment

I am sitting in front of my computer, doing what I do to make my pennies, but in a few…

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Just One More, The Acquired Taste of New Routes in Indian Creek

LocationsBy LukeJanuary 3, 20161 Comment

“Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right”…

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The Sisterhood of the Rope by Rhiannon Williams

LocationsBy LukeDecember 2, 20151 Comment

We pull into the Supercrack parking lot in a rusty, mud smothered Subaru, named Shelly. The lot is dotted with…

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New Wall in Indian Creek

LocationsBy LukeOctober 9, 20153 Comments

As of last weekend there’s a brand new wall in Indian Creek: The Dove Creek Wall. The best part is…

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One Year Later by Nick Chambers

LocationsBy LukeJune 8, 2015Leave a comment

Climbing does not always go as planned. Rosa Malloy-Post of Durango, Colorado, is evidence of that. At the age of…

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The Desert is Mightier Than The Sword

LocationsBy LukeApril 20, 20151 Comment

I always think I’ll write about something else, but these stories keep happening. Then I realize that is the channel…

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Indian Creek Reflection, before it all slips away

LocationsBy LukeOctober 13, 2014Leave a comment

The good times are moving fast these days, zipping by as we fly through space on this big ball of…

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Road Trippin’ and Home Trippin’ by Luke Mehall

UncategorizedBy LukeAugust 29, 2014Leave a comment

Canadians are nice, it rains a lot in the Cascades, and Idaho is quiet and quaint. I’d heard these things…

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