Climb

• November 2014
• Climb

I started climbing in 1991 when I was taken out toproping at Carderock by a friend I met at the University of Maryland. In the first few months of climbing, I had no idea there was any other way to climb. Remember, we didn’t have climbing gyms and the internet at that time. A year […]

• November 2014
• Climb

As you may know, I’ve been running crack climbing clinics in Moab and Indian Creek for the last 3 years now. When people register, I ask them what they are most interested in learning. Invariably, at least one person (and usually a few) says, “I want to learn how to deal with fear when climbing.” […]

• October 2014
• Climb

This season I held two Indian Creek crack clinics and one Moab women’s clinic: we were lucky to have perfect weather for all the events and incredibly fun groups of people! Thanks to everyone who attended, to my amazing team: Lisa Hathaway, Chris Kalous, Adeline Guay, Mary Harlan and Chris Hunter, and to the companies […]

• October 2014
• Hi Steph

Hi Steph, I’ve bought Kindle edition of your book ”High Infatuation”. To my surprise during the reading I had the feeling like I was talking with an intimate friend. I started climbing in 1979 in USSR and most of my climbs were in USSR mountains, including that Kyrgyzstan valley, which you described, and nearby valleys. […]