I’ve been meaning to do this for a while so now that I am finally healing up, I figured I write up my accident report and see what feedback anyone had so that something could be taken away from what happened. More »

Every week there’s a new post on rockclimbing.com detailing a bigger, more complicated, heavier, more time consuming, and lamer way to build belay anchors.  For example:  http://www.rockclimbing.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2137809;page=unread#unread More »

Out of all the mountains I have ever climbed, Mt. Lady Washington is definitely the least cool. First off, Its named after George Washington’s wife, who probably never climbed a mountain and/or had an orgasm in her life. (she might be wearing a bathrobe in this picture!?) More »

I’ve been climbing in J-Tree for almost a decade now.  In fact, it’s the place that I started climbing outdoors.  It’s a magical place for me, the home of my first multipitch, first 5.10a gear onsight, first 5.12a gear redpoint, and so much more.  For seven years now, I’ve had the idea of leading the number of 5.10s equal to my age.  More »

With the road open Shay, Josh, Konstantine and I returned to King’s Canyon to retrieve our gear stash, but also to snag some more of the low hanging FA fruit.  An ominous weather forecast had a couple of us doubting whether we should go, but then Konstantine called us on our shit.  More »