The fastest way to get better
What’s the fastest way to get better as a climber? Is it developing strength? It is refining your technique? Is it getting a really hot boyfriend?
I heard it’s just three easy steps
Climbers like to think of themselves as functional people.
submission: the rock
The Happy and Sad boulder gardens in Bishop were born from fields of ash that flew out of a volcano seven hundred thirty thousand years ago.
submission: your body
Part of what keeps us climbers moving is dreaming about what doesn’t yet exist, what hasn’t already happened.
Emotional Limits
Most climbers (myself included) let go of the holds long before they have met their physical limit.
How to Climb with Intimidating People
When I was a freshman in college, eager to shake off the lessons of the small town ballet school that first trained me, I wanted to dance like the cool kids in the basement bar of my dorm.