Archive for the Rock Category

Thirteen years ago, Kevin Nibir and I hiked to the bottom of Liberty Bell and started climbing. Our chosen route, Liberty Crack (V 5.11 A2) was the biggest, hardest, and scariest thing I had ever

Long before I moved to Utah, I spent a ton of time driving around Washington State. Not only did I grow up there, but I also spent three summers living in my car, river guiding,

The history of desert tower climbing has always been punctuated with eccentric characters like hockey is punctuated with fights. Just like the first ever indoor hockey game ended with a bench-clearing brawl (seriously, look it

Middle Bell tower is about three miles from my house as the crow flies. Despite this, I’ve never hiked up Bells Canyon and done the ultra-class line Arm and Hammer. Jen, Scott, and I did

The White Rim is a place unlike anything else on earth. When Hunter walked to the rim and looked down on the area that contained Standing Rock, he said “this doesn’t even look real.” I’ve

The Haagenschlong is one of the most interesting towers I’ve climbed. It’s not a lone formation in the middle of nowhere, looming over a desert landscape. It’s tucked up against a long cliff line, hidden

It’s been several years since I’ve been to Yosemite, and every time I go there the list of things I want to climb there just gets longer and longer. So, when I had a chance

A couple years ago, Mason Earle came up with the idea to string a circus net under the classic offwidth roof crack Trench Warfare (5.12d). After the send, he gave the net to local crushers