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February 2010 - 282
Cover: Just another training day for superclimbing supermom Ines Papert on Schmittchen Schleicher (M10), Geisterschmiedwand, Austria. Photo: Cory Richards / www.crichardsphoto.com FEAR IS OPTIONAL - The German Ines Papert is undoubtedly the world's best female all-around climber; LADDER(S) TO THE SKY - In 1492 Antoine de Ville established the world's first technical climb up Mont Aiguille; TEAM AMERICA: GRIT POLICE - Alex Honnold, Kevin Jorgeson, and Matt Segal on a gritstone warpath, onsighting, redpointing, and going groundup on UK's top testpieces |
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 February 2010 - 282
FEAR IS OPTIONAL - The German Ines Papert is undoubtedly the world's best female all-around climber; LADDER(S) TO THE SKY - In 1492 Antoine de Ville established the world's first technical climb up Mont Aiguille; TEAM AMERICA: GRIT POLICE - Alex Honnold, Kevin Jorgeson, and Matt Segal on a gritstone warpath, onsighting, redpointing, and going groundup on UK's top testpieces  December 2009 - 281
LOS SUEÑOS GRANDES - El Chonta, the monster limestone grotto near Mexico City; WATER WARS - Sink your picks into the sleeper ice of Niobrara, Nebraska; MOUNTAIN MISHAPS - Eight hilarious ways to almost die in the mountains;XA^APA (HALARA) - Greece’s trad-flavored multi-pitch limestone of Varasova  November 2009 - 280 - EPICS ISSUE
BROKE-DOWN MOUNTAIN- In their final Climbing story, the late Micah Dash and Jonny Copp give us a rare, raw glimpse of their 2008 Alps season; AMPED - Three severely wounded Iraq War veterans rebuild themselves; LOSE YOURSELF - Alex Honnold describes climbing Half Dome unroped; SIDEWAYS - Les Calanques sea cliffs, near Marseille, France; PLUS: Two MINI-EPICS - NO REASON WHY and LOVE ON THE ROCKS  October 2009 - 279
INDEX CLUB - Washington's brilliant Index Town Walls; DER KLETTERGARTEN - Washington's sublime blocs of Leavenworth and Gold Bar; INTO THE WILD - The blue-ice paradise of the remote Icefall Brook, British Columbia; THE ZICICLE - Ice climbing in Zion National Park; "BE KIND, BE STRONG, BE HAPPY, AND TRY HARD." - Cameron Cross remembers Craig Luebben and his untold gifts to our community  September 2009 - 278
UTOPIAN VISTAS - Sleeper classics on pristine basalt, conglomerate, and granite, with blocs a-go-go in Taos, New Mexico; THE HOARY-HEADED FATHERS - Words and photos by two locals who know the Wyoming range inside-out; JOHNNY ROCK: THE LIFE AND CLIMBS OF JOHN BACHAR - The free-climbing and solo pioneer who steered our sport from the 1970s onward; BORDER COUNTRY - Inside the lives, climbs, and final expedition of Wade Johnson, Jonny Copp and Micah Dash  August 2009 - 277
"STOP THE CAR" - Pine Creek Canyon, cragging routes on the Eastside's most serene, stonker granite; RESPECT YOUR ALDERS - Four women chase domes in wild Alaska, finding mosquitoes, swampland and alder thickets; COMEBACK KIDS - Mauled, battered, crushed, and broken, four heroically determined lifers detail their battles  Photo Annual 2009 - 276
INSTACRAGS - Lower Mill Creek Canyon, in Utah's La Sal Mountains , might be the Southwest's last bastion of undiluted adventure climbing; DREAMTIME - A visual tour of Switzerland's most fabled blocks; WIDE LOADS - Tape up your hands, fists, forearms, and ankles, cinch up the jeans and high-top boots, and rack up the monster pro; IN CIMA DELLO STIVALE - From Valle d'Aosta, to Varazze, to the Dolomites, to Val di Mello  May 2009 - 275
COCHISE WHISPERS - A domeland wilderness in the Arizona desert that was once a hideout for the Chiricahua Apache; CATAVINA OR BUST - No, it’s not Rocklands, but the endless granite boulder fields of Baja, Mexico; PHOBOPHOBIA - Fear is a universal part of climbing; TOWER TO THE PEOPLE - A one-day, five-tower Moab link-up even a coupla’ working joes can pull off  2009 Gear Guide - 274
Gear Beta from five equipment-punishing pros - MAJKA BURHARDT, MICAH DASH, ALEX HONNOLD, BETH RODDEN, JIM SHIMBERG; Gear Categories - Belay Devices, Boots, Carabiners, Crashpads, Harnesses, Headlamps, Helmets, Ice Gear, Protection, Rock Shoes, Ropes, Basecamp; Perspective - Tom Frost: big-wall pioneer, gear inventor, photographer; Oakdale, California  March 2009 - 273
GALLERY - Phalanx of Will, monster dyno whipper, and Hebrides trad gnar; PLANET X - The science of high-end headpointing; NOBODY’S FOOL - the hyper-talented and complex Alex Honnold; GET SHORTY! - Celebrating the oft-overlooked (but long-relevant) ropedbouldering genre  January 2009 - 272
2008 GOLDEN PITON AWARDS - Recognizing 2008's top achievers; HIDDEN TREASURE - The Obed - Tennessee's premier sport crag; SANDBLASTED - The multi-pitch walls of the Taghia Gorge, Morocco; THE STYLE THAT COUNTS - The life, climbs, and artistic vision of Andy Parkin; 8 CONFESSIONS OF A CLIMBING MOM - The intersection of motherhood and climbing  December 2008 - 271
GALLERY - Hard-5.13 headpointing, seaside (and high-country) highballing, roof-crack madness, and Garhwal splendor; COUNTRY STYLE - Take a trad tour with two American hardwomen in South Africa; MAINE LINERS - Mark Synnott and Jared Ogden search, in a 27-foot sloop, for sea cliffs along austere Downeast Maine; ZILLERTAL 2.1 - Deep in the Austrian Tyrol there's a granite wonderland with blocs, clip-ups, cracks, and walls  October 2008 - 270
THE NOIR OF THALAY SAGAR - A fateful expedition to the Garhwal Himalaya; SPINDRIFT MEMORIES - Three men and 32 days on Baffin Island’s Walker Citadel; LOSING THE PLOT - Journal entries and images from the "Alaskistan 2007"; TRAPPED! - Two Japanese climbers, fallen 165 feet into a crevasse on Latok IV, fight to escape their icy crypt  September 2008 - 269
FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE - Tune up your huevos and get ready for a second dose of Ibex; HALF THE STORY - Adieu, Hueco. Sayonara, Bishop. The real bouldering explosion centers on a hillside in Turkey; AMERICAN MEATBALLS - Two psyched yankees visit Bohuslän, Sweden, home to the world’s best trad cragging; ANOTHER ONE DRIVES THE BUS - Why Boulder, Colorado, climbers have been driving the big, yellow bus for more than a quarter century  August 2008 - 268
THE BIG D - How Rifle Mountain Park, Colorado, came to be the land of 5.13d; PRETTY GNEISS - The roadside crags of Colorado’s Clear Creek Canyon seem to totter more than tower; PLASTIC PRINCE - Straight outta the “Plastic Crucible” of board-flat Belgium comes Nico Favresse; IN SEARCH OF EL CHUPACABRA - Senior Contributing Editor Craig Luebben visits limestone-rich Puerto Rico  July 2008 - 267
GALLERY - Pawtuckaway granite — sweet boulders and bizzled trad; FANTASYLAND - Veteran alpinist and trash-talker Kelly Cordes confronts his biggest hurdle yet; THE ORIGINAL SPRAYLORD - How did Albert Smith, a pudgy Englishman with only Mont Blanc to his credit, launch the sport of mountaineering 130 years ago?; A GRAND IS NOT ENOUGH - Ten peaks, 12,000 feet of vertical gain, crumbly rock, and restless weather in the Tetons  2008 Photo Annual - 266
PHOTO GALLERIES - From 5.13 cracks, to a Cuban castle, to a Tasmanian sea stack, to a Chinese arch, we bring you 2008’s best photography. PLUS: PIEDRAS ESCONDIDAS - an amazing “Stone Forest” at 15,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes; ROCK DREAMERS - Landscapes of spirit and stone, in the words of seven climbing lifers; CRACK ADDICTION - From seams to bomb-bay; DAR AL-SALAM -The valley of Wadi Rum, Jordan; STONE MONKEYS - Yosemite’s Stone Monkeys — modern-day Stonemasters  April 2008 - 265
GALLERY - Simon Carter takes you on a tour of J-Tree; LEGENDS OF THE FALL - England’s E9 and E10 headpoint pioneers; THE BLACK DOG - The dark side of the climbing equation, as revealed through five first-person essays; THE CONTRARIAN - “Fly’n” Brian McCray is one of our sport’s best all-arounders, over the last 20 years amassing a body of climbs unparalleled in his generation  February 2008 - 264
2007 GOLDEN PITON AWARDS - The best of Alpine, Traditional, Sport, Bouldering, Solo, Rookie of the Year, and Humanitarian of the Year; THE SPAIN DIARIES - Three young Yankees cut loose in Iberia's new-school sport heaven; ASSUME NOTHING - Chile's Valle Cochamo - the Yosemite of South America; GET LOST! - Fremont Canyon, a granite craggers' paradise; TROUT CREEK - Slammer hands, sickly tips, mini-roofs, and velvet corners in Oregon  January 2008 - 263
VERTICAL ETHIOPIA — Infinite, crumbling spires of northern Ethiopia; THE LINE OF CONTROL — Kashmir is known for its conflict, sure . . . between India and Pakistan; WYOMING WIND — Wild, remote, monster granite of the Wind River Range; NECESSARY EVOLUTION — Clean climbing is back, stronger than ever, and it's high time we think before we drill, says Sonnie Trotter |
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