IFSC Climbing Worldcup (2019)
The IFSC Climbing Worldcup riveted hundreds of people this weekend, as the world's best competitive climbers fought for a spot in finals. The sixth, and final Bouldering World Cup brought...
The Tale of the Broken Leg
This week my roommate, Blake, broke his leg. He was at the top of a bouldering wall that he had fallen from hundreds of times before. His hands clutched...
Preparing to Be Houseless Again
There’s an echo in the house. Fur balls bounce through the halls like tumbleweeds, swollen and forgotten. The wind sweeps across the floor, unencumbered by furniture and trinkets as...
Texas: The Land of the Wind.
The wind blows and blows and blows, like an air river, rushing through the sky. If you sit in it for long enough, it will start to chip away...
Getting My Butt Handed to Me on a Moderate Crack Climb
There’s a route in North Carolina that’s a moderate climb. But it kicks my ass every time I attempt to climb it. It’s my anti-style -- an overhanging crack...
Using Imperfections to Ascend to the Top
The universal climbing rule is to start at the base of a climb and go up. How you choose to move, or what you’re capable of doing with your...
Meditations on Fear: Why do we use fear as a motivator?
I recently interviewed a young man who just set a Guinness World Record for completing the highest amount of elevation gain ever recorded in a month (about 400,000 feet...