Category : Climbing
Dale Bard: “In the dead of winter”
February 2, 2012
Over the next 44 days, they were pummeled by heavy snowstorms, narrowly escaped avalanche burial and courted starvation. But it was all part of a grand adventure, according Bard. …………………………………………………………………………. Read More ...
February 2, 2012
Over the next 44 days, they were pummeled by heavy snowstorms, narrowly escaped avalanche burial and courted starvation. But it was all part of a grand adventure, according Bard. …………………………………………………………………………. Read More ...
High Sierra Fever
October 1, 2011
By Leonie Sherman How do you explain to the cutest, most awesome climber boy that you can’t date him because you are more in love with a mountain range than you can ever hope to be with a human? My first date with Adam was four days of kayaking around Lake Tahoe and before we even kissed I was already breaking up with him. “I really like you,” I mumbled. “But I have this dream of mountain-climbing from way south in the Sierra to northern Yosemite. Read More ...
October 1, 2011
By Leonie Sherman How do you explain to the cutest, most awesome climber boy that you can’t date him because you are more in love with a mountain range than you can ever hope to be with a human? My first date with Adam was four days of kayaking around Lake Tahoe and before we even kissed I was already breaking up with him. “I really like you,” I mumbled. “But I have this dream of mountain-climbing from way south in the Sierra to northern Yosemite. Read More ...
Noah Kaufman: “Miracle"
August 1, 2011
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Whitney’s East Buttress
August 1, 2011
Clearly visible from the sage-surrounded frontier town of Lone Pine, thousands of hikers, climbers, skiers, and mountaineers attempt Whitney’s summit each year (14,505’). One of the most celebrated aspects of Mt. Whitney, beyond its stature as the highest point in the lower 48, is that there are no fewer than three distinct ways to reach Whitney’s broad summit plateau. Read More ...
August 1, 2011
Clearly visible from the sage-surrounded frontier town of Lone Pine, thousands of hikers, climbers, skiers, and mountaineers attempt Whitney’s summit each year (14,505’). One of the most celebrated aspects of Mt. Whitney, beyond its stature as the highest point in the lower 48, is that there are no fewer than three distinct ways to reach Whitney’s broad summit plateau. Read More ...
Hidden in Plain Sight
August 1, 2011
There are cliffs banding both sides of the canyon so you can climb on south-facing, sun-drenched cliffs in the winter or hide in the shade of the north-facing side in the summer. Accordingly, these two sides of the canyon are referred to as the winter and summer sides. Woodfords boasts substantial cliff systems that terrace the steep walls of the canyon for nearly 2,500 vertical feet. Read More ...
August 1, 2011
There are cliffs banding both sides of the canyon so you can climb on south-facing, sun-drenched cliffs in the winter or hide in the shade of the north-facing side in the summer. Accordingly, these two sides of the canyon are referred to as the winter and summer sides. Woodfords boasts substantial cliff systems that terrace the steep walls of the canyon for nearly 2,500 vertical feet. Read More ...
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
August 1, 2011
The symbiosis worked all too well. Fast forward to early this summer and this less than sophisticated ape found himself staring into the eyes of a catahoula hound. He was sick and when I patted him my hand reeked of dead squirrel. Read More ...
August 1, 2011
The symbiosis worked all too well. Fast forward to early this summer and this less than sophisticated ape found himself staring into the eyes of a catahoula hound. He was sick and when I patted him my hand reeked of dead squirrel. Read More ...
Two Tahoe Climbing Crags
September 1, 2010
” Unlike my supposed brethren, who on rock monoliths resemble a Great Dane hearing the word “bone,” I lack the skill and gumption to ascend worthy peaks discovered in slide shows. Like a skier who lives for the groomed, I’m content to stretch my pluck and sanity up established, well-protected, and easy routes. Eagle Lake Buttress provides me with a universal positivity, a zero-to-hero feeling without fear of amputation, hanging bivouacs, or yo-yoing up fixed ropes. Read More ...
September 1, 2010
” Unlike my supposed brethren, who on rock monoliths resemble a Great Dane hearing the word “bone,” I lack the skill and gumption to ascend worthy peaks discovered in slide shows. Like a skier who lives for the groomed, I’m content to stretch my pluck and sanity up established, well-protected, and easy routes. Eagle Lake Buttress provides me with a universal positivity, a zero-to-hero feeling without fear of amputation, hanging bivouacs, or yo-yoing up fixed ropes. Read More ...
Viva Las Red Rock!
September 1, 2010
But if you venture out beyond the city limits and out onto the Aztec sandstone of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, what happens doesn’t just stay there. You bring home a whole lot of recollections that are as hard to forget as a bad gambling debt. At least that’s been the case for my climbing partner/wife and I. Read More ...
September 1, 2010
But if you venture out beyond the city limits and out onto the Aztec sandstone of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, what happens doesn’t just stay there. You bring home a whole lot of recollections that are as hard to forget as a bad gambling debt. At least that’s been the case for my climbing partner/wife and I. Read More ...
Kauk Loosens His Cape
September 1, 2010
White granite begins turning yellow under a stained-glass sky. Flashing up finger and fist cracks, squeeze-chimneys and the slabs of the Valley’s monumental stone, Kauk finishes his route in the waning sunlight of a fall afternoon. Climbing has never been a hobby to Kauk, but instead an unbridled passion, a lifeblood and personal code of environmental ethics. Read More ...
September 1, 2010
White granite begins turning yellow under a stained-glass sky. Flashing up finger and fist cracks, squeeze-chimneys and the slabs of the Valley’s monumental stone, Kauk finishes his route in the waning sunlight of a fall afternoon. Climbing has never been a hobby to Kauk, but instead an unbridled passion, a lifeblood and personal code of environmental ethics. Read More ...
John Fischer • 1946 - 2010
September 1, 2010
The only hint that he might have spent his formative years in the 1960s was his long, drawn-out inflection of “wow. ” It was a word he uttered often, especially when it concerned climbing or when he told the story about being front and center at a free Jimmy Hendrix concert in Golden Gate Park. But the “wows” mostly spilled about climbing, and more specifically mostly regarding the peaks of his beloved High Sierra. Read More ...
September 1, 2010
The only hint that he might have spent his formative years in the 1960s was his long, drawn-out inflection of “wow. ” It was a word he uttered often, especially when it concerned climbing or when he told the story about being front and center at a free Jimmy Hendrix concert in Golden Gate Park. But the “wows” mostly spilled about climbing, and more specifically mostly regarding the peaks of his beloved High Sierra. Read More ...
