Climbing

Why do I climb? I’m asked this question all the time and I don’t think I’ve ever answered it the same way twice. It’s not that I don’t know why I climb, but that there are so many reasons why I enjoy climbing that if I told you about all of them we’d be standing […]

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Do you know who Joe Brown is?  I would not be surprised if you answered”no” to this question.  Joe did most of his incredible rock climbing over 50 years ago.  He changed the sport forever, but in today’s climbing world little attention is paid to how we got here.  It is said that he was […]

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I get plenty of mountaineering equipment catalogs in the mail.  Sometimes I’ll see something that makes me go online to the company’s website to check out the item or sale or whatever.  It happened to me today when I received a mailing from REI and it got me thinking: I have been using the same […]

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