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
I’m too damn busy with life and what-have-you to walk a nice intro around the block, which likely leaves many sighing pleasantly over their humming laptops. The climbing life has a way of just being the “life,” lacking that whole rock-scaling component, often. Unfurling a Gordian knot seems a bit less complicated than stacking the … Read more
I think most everything about American living is pretty snazzy, to tell the unfashionable truth. Having lived overseas for a number of years, I feel a certain efficiency when considering the merits of American life. This is especially true for a climber. With a car. Traveling to the yankee crags is a matter of time … Read more
Disclaimer: The opinions and views stated in this blog are supported by no one and substantiated by even fewer. Those interviewed express their own stuff, too. Read on happily. There is so much bullshit in this world that it gives both bulls and their steaming shit a bad reputation. Wait. That’s not the intro I … Read more
About a month ago Sara Lingafelter joined Mike Brooks and I on ClimbTalk Radio (here it comes…KVCU 1190 AM every other Friday, the nation’s only live climbing talk radio show-”BOOM” GOES THE SHAMELESS PLUG!!). We’d had a desperately dip-shit show, the first guest being an intelligent and interesting sex therapist…although none of us had a … Read more
Another excerpt from the Travel Journal as I get ready for the proper article…the real writing starts this week… This is just a snippet of the on-the-fly words. Enjoy. James and I took a short hike to Divisadero to check out the “town” and grab some grub for the night. My poverty-necessitating Power Bar diet … Read more
This is a blurb stolen from the travel journals of a climbing trip to Southeast Asia a couple years ago. By the way, check out my (often) travel-partner-in-crime’s website, kylerdeutmeyer.com. Full of killer pro shots of outdoor adventure, from surfing to kayaking, to lifestyle in India, to bouldering and trad climbing. Of course, in this … Read more
I was driving home from the shop today, exhausted by the shoppers plugging their materialism gaps with gear on too sunny a day to lope around inside on lightly carpeted cement. This sort of behavior has always bridled my ire, since I entered the outdoor industry, albeit now as a part-time schlep. You’re shopping for … Read more