Joe Kinder
How to Redpoint
Check out this video to pick up tricks on finishing your project! Joe Kinder is teaching Advanced Lead at Berkeley Ironworks on Friday, January 29th at 7pm. This clinic is designed to provide you with the tools necessary for redpointing climbs at your limit. Don’t fall into the same bad habits, or miss out on this…
Joe Kinder’s Redpointing Clinic
We’re happy to welcome Touchstone Athlete and international man of psych Joe Kinder to our instructing team! He will be teaching an Introduction to Redpointing Clinic at Berkeley Ironworks. Are you constantly hanging on your rope, unable to link your favorite route in one go? This is the clinic for you. “Redpointing is the way you gain ground and climbing…
Deja Vu
You know that feeling you get when you walk into the gym and BAM! It’s chalk full of brand new routes and boulder problems for you climb, crush and curse? We owe it all to our route setting crew. Route setters are, by nature, a different breed. The job is 3/4 manual labor, 1/8 creativity,…
About First Ascents: Climbing the New Lines
“This is so exciting,” Randy Puro said. A half dozen climbers threw themselves at an undone boulder problem near the Merced River. They could barely get off the ground until someone discovered a match and wild hamhock maneuver. They climbed higher until a hold broke. They stayed with it despite the setback. They all wanted…
TNB: Joe Kinder Visits the World’s Hardest Cave
We’re proud to support Joey Kinder as a Touchstone Climbing Athlete. This trip report was originally published in Rock and Ice Magazine. Written by Chris Parker. My first assignment as a Rock and Ice intern was daunting: Inform the American climbing public that the future of hard sport climbing had been discovered … in Norway. A relatively unknown…