With the ever increasing popularity of rock climbing and the expansion of digital services, the internet world has become a larger presence on the mountain. Where once, Yosemite was a vast wilderness, now it is possible to update your Facebook status from the side of El Capitan. Alex Lowther, a climber living in New York […]
On December 9, the Touchstone Bouldering Series will be hitting Mission Cliffs. The friday night San Francisco comp promises to be one of the best one yet. TBS7 comp shirts will be given to competitors, there will be delicious pizza, tons of free beer, and a host of new boulder problems. Additionally, Mission Cliffs […]
Vertical Velocity, the girls’s climbing team at Berkeley Ironworks, is having a bake sale on Monday evening. The team will be having its one year anniversary this month and is raising money for team sweatshirts. The girls’s climbing team had a great costume part in October. The team began in late 2010 with only […]
File this under bad belaying. It’s always amusing to see climbing portrayed in tv, movies or commercials. Feast your eyes on this gem from Doritos, and remember to always keep your hands on the It’s always amusing to see climbing portrayed in tv, movies or commercials. Feast your eyes on this gem from Doritos, and remember to […]
Huecos Rancheros, a new movie filmed by Owen Bissel and edited by Byron Wolter, is coming out in a month. The 30 minute film features classic problems from Hueco, everything from v0 fun fests to v13 horror shows. The movie features Mark Heal, Touchstone athlete Ethan Pringle and a number of other climbers. Pringle and […]
On November 12th, the Access Fund hosted a workday at Jailhouse near Sonora, CA. Over 200 tons of gravel was laid for a new parking area and road, new fences and gates were made and the access trail was improved. Jailhouse has been a great example of the climbing community uniting. Sterling Ropes donated a […]
Well into his late 80s, life time dirtbag climber, Fred Beckey shows no signs of slowing down his passion for climbing. Beckey has authored a number of books since the late 1940s, notably the Cadcade Alpine Guide, which is in it’s third edition. In 2003, his 563-page book on the history of the region, […]
Phillipp Green, a 27 year old front desk staffer at Fresno’s Metal Mark, competed in the HomeGrown CycloCross race series this year. The races take place from September to January and consist of numerous laps around a short, a 1.5 – 2 mile course with mixed terrain of wooded trails, grass, steep hills, and […]
There’s days when I sit behind my computer and neurotically check the weather. Yosemite, Castle Rock, Mortar, Smith, Bishop, Mickeys, Pinnacles. Where should I go? Where’s the weather going to be best? Perfect weather in the Valley. On the BART ride home, on the drive out to the crag, and anywhere inbetween, it’s nice […]
Earlier this month, four intrepid bay area climbers took the journey to the deep south in search of some of the best sandstone boulders in the United States. Chattanooga, Tenessee is home to world class bouldering. Al Liu, a 32-year-oldMountain Hardwear employee from Oakland, and Abel Eisentraut, a 41-year-old cabinet maker from Oakland, flew from […]
