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Best Kids Climbing Gear
I don't remember rock climbing much as a kid, maybe a few times at birthday parties, and never outside. But ...
Rock Climbing Trip, Without a Rope Gun?!
What’s it like to be a rope gun (aka the strongest climber in your climbing crew)? I never knew until ...
Best Outdoor Face Masks
Wearing a mask is becoming part of our new normal. From the grocery store to the climbing gym to the ...
How to Find the Best Rock Climbing Guide
Rock climbing continues to grow in popularity, particularly indoor climbing gyms. Indoor climbing makes sense for people climbing for the ...
Climbing Guide to Seneca Rocks, WV
Seneca Rocks, West Virginia is the closest, best, (and only) trad multi-pitch climbing in the Mid-Atlantic region. If you’re looking ...
A Climber’s Guide to Ten Sleep, Wyoming
The town of Ten Sleep, WY (pop. 260) isn’t one that many people know of outside of Wyoming locals (Wyomingans?)—but ...
The Super Secret Language of Climbing Lingo
By now you’ve learned belay commands and cool climbing lingo like crux, stem, and beta. Maybe you’ve even gotten into ...
Best Crack Climbing Gloves
Crack climbing...you love it or you hate it. And that might change depending on the day, or even the individual ...
24 things to do with your old climbing rope
Every climber dreads the moment when you just can’t ignore the truth anymore—your old climbing rope needs to be retired ...
Easy Tips for Preventing Finger Injuries while Climbing
For most of us, understanding our bodies is challenging. It can be tough to understand what those strange pings or ...
Best Climbing Sun Protection Options
Every climber loves a warm day of climbing at a shady crag. But sometimes the sun is unavoidable, whether it’s ...
The Best Climbing Nut Tools 2021
The humble nut tool: the tool that no one really wants to have to use. Yours is probably relegated to ...
16 Best Climbing Podcasts You Should Listen To
Climbers love to talk about climbing—so it’s no surprise that lots of great climbing podcasts exist. They range from hilarious ...
Pinnacles National Park Guide
Welcome to our Pinnacles National Park Guide. Our guide will give you an overview of the park, including camping, hiking, ...
What’s Trad Climbing?
This article is part of a series on trad climbing. It answers the question "What's trad climbing?" by covering the ...
26 Best Climbing Instagram Accounts that Everyone Should Follow
Alex Honnold. Sasha DiGiulian. Tommy Caldwell. You know these names and so does every other climber. But there are so ...
Lovers Leap Climbing Guide
Located just off of Highway 50 in the mountain town of Strawberry, Lover’s Leap, for most people, is a large ...
Different Types of Rock Climbing Explained
“What's free climbing? Is it the same as free soloing?” “Are sport climbing and lead climbing the same thing?” “What ...
Guide to Yosemite Valley
John Muir described Yosemite Valley as “By far the grandest of all the special temples of Nature I was ever ...
12 Funniest Rock Climbing Videos Everyone Should See
For every rock climber that takes climbing too seriously, there’s one that realizes Yvon Chouinard was right when he referred ...
How to Choose Climbing Shoes
So you want to start rock climbing. Or maybe you’ve been climbing for awhile, and using rented or borrowed shoes ...
21 Unique Chalk Bags for Every Climber
There are only a few companies that make world-class climbing shoes and harnesses, so you might find a lot of ...
Best Climbing Knife 2021
Carrying a knife while climbing might seem strange, even unsafe. But there are many reasons for having a knife, especially ...
Climbing festivals across America in 2021
Climbing festivals are an awesome way to experience a climbing area, whether for the first or fiftieth time. They usually ...
Best Climbing Packs 2021
Outdoor climbing requires a lot of gear. Unless you’re bouldering, you’ll need a rope, shoes, harness, helmet, chalk bag, carabiners ...
11 Reasons why you should try gym climbing
Rock climbing is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. 130 new indoor climbing gyms opened in ...
Worshipping Rocks: Hilarious photos of spotters without climbers
What does bouldering look like without the climber? Photographer Ted Schiele (@s.ted) “got bored and photoshopped out climbers from boulders.” ...
3 Climbing Hitches You Should Know
What’s a hitch? A hitch is a type of knot used to attach rope to an object. In rock climbing ...
Trip Report: Climbing Snake Dike
Half Dome is one of the most recognized rock formations in the world, rising nearly 5,000 feet above the floor ...
Guide to the Best Approach Shoes
For many climbers, their approach shoes are the piece of climbing equipment they wear the most. A good pair of approach ...
Guide to Joshua Tree National Park
With its impossibly balanced rock piles and the bizarre trees from which it gets its name, Joshua Tree National Park ...
21 Jokes Only Climbers Will Understand
Climbers aren't known for being particularly appropriate. Climbing jokes and puns are often crude, sexual, and dark. Just look at ...
Buying Your First Trad Rack: A Beginner’s Guide
Trad climbing requires a lot of gear, and knowing what gear you need to get started can be overwhelming, so ...
How to Become a Trad Climber: A Beginner’s Guide
You hear them a mile away, gear jangling on their harnesses. Next, you see them—covered in dirt and blood, hands ...
How to choose a climbing rope
TL;DR: For most climbers a UIAA-certified dynamic climbing rope from 9.4-10.2mm in diameter and 60-70m in length will meet all ...
Guide to the Best Climbing Ropes of 2021
A Google search for the best climbing rope will get you get over two million hits. The first page alone ...
Common Anchor Mistakes: Ways to Fail at Redundancy
Redundancy. It’s the “R” in every climbing anchor acronym from SERENE to ERNEST. Everyone who builds climbing anchors is at ...
GriGri + Review
Petzl recently released the GriGri +, its newest assisted-braking belay device, continuing its longstanding tradition of innovation in climbing equipment ...
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