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Neighboring mountains and Native American reservations force Phoenix to be shaped, more or less, like an "L." On the eastern end of the East Valley leg

The trip started by flying into Phoenix. There I met up with transplated TMR'er Clay Vollmer and we drove...

The trip started by flying into Phoenix. There I met up with transplated TMR'er Clay Vollmer and we drove...

When I first moved to Houston I thought it must be the worst city for a climber to live in on the planet. Then I moved to...

Even though Mt. Shasta like Mt. Rainier are fourteeners, beyond the league of high Altitude Mountains such as Acongagua and the Himalayas, one needs to...

The nose route on El Capitan in Yosemite is perhaps the most famous rock climb in the world. At 3400 feet, it is the better part of...

Lance Snyder, Pete Nolan and I flew out to Denver at half past sparrowfart on Friday morning. I refused to set the alarm any earlier than...

I came to the Crestones in 1994 and in 1996 with the intent of climbing the Needle. The first time the timing was not good and the second the weather was not good. This year...

Climbing Long’s Peak via Kiener's Route was my first real Mountaineering experience...

It is Thursday, October 8th. Alan Johnson and I are just lifting off from Cleveland airport, thirty miles from Humble. It is a little less than...

I climbed Katahdin Mountain on Tuesday May 23. I had a few days off work while in Maine and decided that

Few things can make me feel more "thankful" than the opportunity to go on a climbing road trip over Thanksgiving, but especially so was this year's trip...

Debbie, Bob Snow, and myself just returned from our scouting trip to Boundary Peak (13,143'), Nevada's high point. Here's how it went...

While all you Raiders are out there sweltering in the Texas humidity, I have been doing a little exploring on my own. I have been out here in Vegas...

In December 1996 I drove from Houston to Taos New Mexico for a Christmas to New Year Day winter excursion, this was my second trip to Taos...

“Come on let’s go…” “Hold on, I gotto attach my prusiks.” “No time, do it later.” And off we went speed climbing up the next snow slope. Erik called it ‘full throttle and no rudder’. We were craving to bag another mountain...

I told Natalie that it would be a slam dunk. This didn't excite her as she wanted adventure. She got it. It was my third attempt...

It is July 30th, 1996. I am driving south on route 7, south of Tacoma, Washington. It is a glorious morning; clear and warm. The only cloud...

I had the opportunity to visit Katoomba Australia for some multi-pitch climbing in August 2003. Katoomba is approximately 60 kilometers from Sydney and ...

On Friday evening, the UKClimbing.com weather forecast for Saturday in South Wales called for 45 degrees F and slight showers. The prediction was correct. In part.

Jotham and Stuart collect their gear with their two new slim profiled REI climbing backpacks and head to Heathrow to catch the Swiss Air flight to Geneva as they begin their pilgrimage to the climbing capital of Europe...

The sun hovered around nine in the morning sky over Khamis-Mushyat by the time I dropped our Mitsubishi off at the workshop. The day was off to a slow start.

Ah the weather is still cool. Saturday we had almost perfect climbing weather. We started Saturday on the Cheap Wine Wall.

We had 9 people at our E-Rock climb on April 21, and 6 on April 22. Climbers were Hugh Fry, Charroll Moore, Bob Snow...

This report has more information on Cave Crack than you'll ever want but...

I have been climbing for about 6 months in gyms around Houston. After some prodding from friends that I climb with, I decided to...

Fun in the rain. That pretty well sums up this years Granite Gripper. Rain on and off on the drive out...

All the best weekends start before dawn. We all huddled in the dark feeling decidedly chilly under the Pavilion at E-rock waiting for some semblance of...

You're standing on the top of an 8,749-foot peak. You can see out almost 100 miles

I had the opportunity to try two new belay devices. The Cassin Logic and the Wild Country Single Rope Controller (SRC)....

Published annually by the American Alpine Club, this 92 page book (which covers the year 1998) always makes for fascinating reading. Actually, it should be required reading for...

Every alpinist should have an emergency kit. This should be kept in your clothing and...

I decided to make a platform for my propane cartridge stove to keep it more level and stable when cooking. The platform clamps on to the propane...

I know that sometimes, all of us will come against a mental hurdle when climbing sometimes. We tell ourselves things like "I've never climbed a ...

It was my perfect mountain. It had everything: rock slabs, narrow ridges, snow, ice, difficult route finding, and ...

Make no doubt about it, guiding can be a lot of work. We are usually hiking in the ropes and gear to set up the top ropes for a class at 6am, and then...

All things have a beginning and for the Texas Mountain Raiders, that was in 1989 when Lambert Arceneaux took up climbing after visits to Enchanted Rock. Lambert was interested in ...

Despite Joe Simpson's claim that "such questions are unanswerable, and are posed only by those who have never done it themselves." (This Game of Ghosts), I am sure that everyone who climbs has...