Will Levandowski is a freak.  That about sums it up, I think?  Maybe not sums him up, but wraps up in a tidy little bouquet the rock climbing feat he just pulled off on Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder a little over a month ago.  I’ve written about the Guinness World Record accomplishment already on this … Read more

Usually, when I run, I don’t really think about much of anything.  Random thoughts blow up like balloons, suddenly burst, while others begin expanding, most drifting away into the ether of my vacant mind.  Even when I try to think I don’t have much luck.  I can’t make myself concentrate because I’m so often fleeting … Read more

ClimbTalk is interviewing Chris Sierzant, a Prana ambassador, this Friday night and Prana asked me to write up a little blurb for their blog, which will go up on Friday morning at www.prana.com/blog.  But to my loyal reader (s?), here’s a sneak preview… Da Blog… I remember, my first trip to Bishop, my second year … Read more

There was a time that I lived outside the United States.  For nearly three years I had no real home in America, no stable in which to munch the reliable hay.  During my time away I filled maybe ten thousand pages of journals…maybe twenty G’s…just obsessively remembering to make myself remember, taking the snapshots my … Read more

Maybe during no other summer in the history of American climbing has a single bouldering area, alpine, desert, wooded or other, seen a quiver of exceptionally hard problems filled like the summer of 2010, five figures of elevation high on the flank of Mt. Evans, in Colorado’s Front Range.  Led by Americans either entering their … Read more

Dear Whomever Could Possibly Still Be Interested, Well, for whatever it’s worth, the Mexico article has passed first draft at just under 13,000 words, an almost unpublishable monstrosity that despite the length I really could not be a great deal more happy with, more or less.  Well, I could be happier.  You can always be … Read more

Oh, boy.  I’ve been gone a long time from this blog, and it must be submitted that I loathe when “bloggers” write that statement.  Like people are actually waiting to read something.  Give me a f**king break.  Alas, here I am, dry heaving on the page with nothing important to say. In a snippet, I’ve … Read more

I’ve been so busy with a non-climbing writing project — a social sort of deal concerning a certain running indigenous tribe in the Copper Canyon of Mexico — that has me desperately whimpering for vividly describing crimpers and regurgitating climbing beta in very, very, very minute detail.  I’ve not hovered through this blogging headspace in … Read more

Seriously, we need to talk.  So, let’s get down to brass tacks and tackle that ever-loving bastard of “fitness.”  Most climbers that I know could give a flying duck about all-around fitness, instead opting to grapple the old grips like PCP-powered gibbons.  I fall into this category off and on, myself, but ya gotta get … Read more

Two tales of inspirational dudes intertwined into one massive interview…Peter Mortimer giving us the climbing vids we need, in a meaningful way…Willie Mein hosting one of the premier trash clean-ups in the States.  In their own ways, these guys are changing the landscape of the climbing world, both literally and artistically.  ClimbTalk is greatly indebted … Read more