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Last Thoughts on The Dirtbag, A Short Film

LocationsBy LukeDecember 6, 2017Leave a comment

Two years ago I pitched an idea about a film I really had nothing more than a spark of an…

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Blue Eyes Climbing In The Rain (a poem) by Luke Mehall

LocationsBy LukeOctober 11, 2017Leave a comment

In the desert in rains In the desert climber brains Can think of nothing but climbing But climbing is not…

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The Burnout by Luke Mehall

UncategorizedBy LukeAugust 9, 2017Leave a comment

It was many, many years before I realized that this environment in The Desert was the ultimate. I just didn’t…

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Dead, In Jail, Or Climbing

UncategorizedBy LukeJune 22, 20172 Comments

I was put on drugs by the time I was seven years old, a kid labeled as having Attention Deficit…

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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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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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Hear Mehall on The Enormocast

Climbing CultureBy LukeMarch 27, 2017Leave a comment

Check out Climbing Zine publisher, Luke Mehall on the Enormocast with Chris Kalous. Please throw the Enormocast a buck or…

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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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The Sensitive Climber Guy

LocationsBy LukeNovember 2, 2016Leave a comment

Times are scary, and common sense decency seems to quickly be fading from day to day life. We’ve got a…

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The Sharing of The Rack

UncategorizedBy LukeOctober 25, 2016Leave a comment

I’ll never forget it — we were three newbie climbers racked up for Supercrack in Indian Creek when an older…

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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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Free Moab (and Boulder)

LocationsBy LukeOctober 5, 2016Leave a comment

Utah and Colorado. We are neighbors, and many of us go back and forth between our borders so often it’s…

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Minivan Adventures With Married People

UncategorizedBy LukeSeptember 26, 2016Leave a comment

It was a sign of the times, a turning of the page, a shift in aesthetics for these two climbers.…

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A Tribute To The Gumby

UncategorizedBy LukeAugust 31, 20161 Comment

We sometimes treat them like the lowest of the low — like a new recruit in boot camp in the…

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Stoner’s Highway by Luke Mehall (an excerpt from American Climber)

Books, LocationsBy LukeJune 13, 2016Leave a comment

I figured that it would be just a regular outing on the rock that would pose only minor difficulties given…

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