Most people think of winter as a time to stay in thier homes with their families, drinking hot chocolate and wallowing in holiday spirit. These people, of course, know not the meaning of glory. Such people consider walking barefoot on a slightly chilly hardwood floor, “punishment.” You can often find these people cozying together in Starbucks with snowflake pattern sweaters on their laptops, paroozing sissy websites such as Pullharder.COM. They will never know the meaning of true winter glory (WG) More »
A Casual Tuesday Night
You know something bad was happening this week when our beloved dust pit, known as Vertical Hold, had closed its doors on us. So there we were, at Nate and Shay’s, sitting around More »
The Quintessential Scotty Vacation (NIAD)
I have this friend, Scotty. He likes to push the limits. In fact he’s famous for it among our group of friends. We’ve all been on a “Scotty Vacation™.” They typically involve at least one (or more) of the following: unplanned bivy, dehydration, hallucination, cramps, stumbling from exhaustion, feeling like you might throw up, altitude sickness, and more. They ALL have four things in common: More »
Sport Wankery in the Owens River Gorge
Kostas, Josh, Nathalie and I went on a sport climbing vacation! (The purpose was training for hard Alpine routes, I swear). Two days of sport climbing, one evening of easy bouldering, and a naked full-moon soak in the hot springs was just the punishment we needed. More »
Tufa pinching in Greaks
Wake up around 8ish, climb until the sun hits, hang out at the pool while drinking a cold frappe’, repeat. I was a little wary at first, seeing as this isn’t what I would normally call punishment. However, my little excursion to Kalymnos turned out to be both fun and rewarding. More »
Science of climbing?
I was doing a literature review for work and somehow this article ended up in my query. It’s called “Physiological Determinants of Climbing-Specific Finger Endurance and Sport Rock Climbing Performance.” I’ll paste the abstract below. This article might be especially of interest to those of you who are sport climbers now (ahem, Nate and Kostas) 
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Possible Winter Climbs
Some knar routes:
The Northeast Ridge of Williamson. Would undoubtedly be an epic ordeal. I have heard it could be Grade VI in winter. Checks in with Himalayan proportions:
Trail Head to Summit: 8000 feet
Total climbing vertical: 11,000 feet
Round Trip: 25 miles More »
