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Tower Town

By Bill AmosIn 2011 Tyler Adams called me raving about a group of ultra-chossy towers outside of Crooked River Ranch in Central Oregon. Tyler was always psyched to climb the most rotten and unappea...
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Observations of a Middle Aged Climbing Has-Been

Photo: Tim Banfield By Erik Wellborn As someone who has climbed for almost 30 years I find the evolution o...
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November: The Birth

Early season ice posing potential issues somewhere in Wyoming. by Dustin FricChasing down frozen waterfall...
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Chris Kalman Goes Ice Climbing

Everything was still, and quiet save for the clinking of ice screws against one another, the grind of crampons and tools scraping on rocks, and...
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Funeral for Another Friend

By Nick FrazeeThis fall Bud Martin, Marko Pujic and I decided to check out a classic early season alpine mixed climb, Funeral for Another Frien...
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Don't Forget to Breathe

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The Montana Centennial Route

by Nick FrazeeLast week my friend Alex Wakeman and I had the opportunity to climb a classic route here in Montana, just a short drive and a lon...
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Return to the Goldmine

By Sam EastmanCastle Mountain is a rock climber’s goldmine. Yes the approach is long and somewhat tedious, yet a day spent climbing the solid g...
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Ice Climbing off the Salmon River, Idaho

by Dustin FricIn January I took a trip DEEP into the Frank Church River of no Return Wilderness, the largest wilderness in the lower 48. Matt S...