The Vulnerable Man — My experience writing American Climber
Without climbing I’d be dead or in jail. This is not the first piece I’ve ever started off with those…
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American Climber – Kickstarter is FUNDED
After a decade of writing, and re-writing, my memoir, American Climber is finally complete. It is a 75,000 word tale…
Who Will Fight For Our Right?
Note: this article was originally published in The Durango Telegraph. Last week my monthly contribution to the Durango Telegraph was…
Just One More, The Acquired Taste of New Routes in Indian Creek
“Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right”…
The Great American Dirtbags by Luke Mehall
My second book, The Great American Dirtbags is now available in the printed form, and as an e-book. by Luke…
Is The Dirtbag Dead?
“I was crazy and I was wild and I have seen the tiger smile.” Drive On by Johnny Cash This…
To Live Is To Fly by Luke Mehall
As I start this piece it’s that time of the year when the Animas River here in Durango looks like…
The Desert is Mightier Than The Sword
I always think I’ll write about something else, but these stories keep happening. Then I realize that is the channel…
Volume 6 in Print – Our Crown Jewel
The sixth volume of The Climbing Zine is now live on Kindle and available in print. Titled “Prose and Parables From…
The Dirtbag Manifesto
“The world has enough for man’s need, but not enough for man’s greed.” Gandhi Where do we look for hope,…
Just a Couple Guys from Colorado on El Cap
It’s amazing that climbing El Capitan in Yosemite is no big deal for a lot of people: routes that originally…
Indian Creek Reflection, before it all slips away
The good times are moving fast these days, zipping by as we fly through space on this big ball of…
Road Trippin’ and Home Trippin’ by Luke Mehall
Canadians are nice, it rains a lot in the Cascades, and Idaho is quiet and quaint. I’d heard these things…
This is Buildering
In the deep of the twilight, the night, buzzed on something, spirits, smoke, the usual, a change occurs: an athletic…
Hippies, Dirtbags, and A Gift From Grandma
When I was in my later years of being a teenager I was convinced that I was born too late.…