Archive for the Rock Category

Blazing Saddles is an incredible looking pitch. It looks like it should be way harder than the 5.10b grade it gets, which generally makes for really fun climbing. But, it’s kind of in the middle

Despite all my trips up here, I have never climbed the Grand Wall. But, after a little convincing, and maybe some minor sandbagging, I convinced my friend Tatjana to join me. So we geared up

Jen has been leading a lot on this trip, even on the trad routes. It’s been awesome to see her get more and more confident every day and trust here skillset to get her through

It’s been an awesome few weeks up here. The weather has been splitter, we’re meeting some awesome people in camp, a few friends have come up to visit, and we’re climbing our asses off. Here

If I’m being honest, I usually avoid the Apron at all cost. The combination of multiple moderate classics that all feed from a couple entry pitches lead to next-level traffic jams that I’m just not

Despite all of our trips to Squamish, we have somehow not made it up to Slahanay. This formation isn’t as clean as some of the surrounding cliffs, but it has a whole ton of five-to-eight

Jen is usually a one-and-done type of person when it comes to multi-pitch climbs. But today was different for some reason. After a lazy morning we took a lap up Skywalker, a five-pitch 5.8 that

Squamish is my favorite place on earth. There’s just nowhere else quite like it. The granite is amazing, the biking is excellent, the ocean is right there, the scene is great, the camping is simple,

Given how fast it’s warming up, combined with the fact that there’s still too much snow to do much at Washington Pass right now, Jen and I decided to head more or less straight through

I used to climb at Smith Rocks quite a bit. Living in Eastern Washington during the early years of my climbing, it was the closest destination area at seven hours away. In those early years