FEATURES

2008 GOLDEN PITON AWARDS
The Seventh Annual Golden Pitons, recognizing 2008’s top achievers in: Sport, Traditional, Alpine, Big Wall, Humanitarian, Solo, Breakaway Success, and Bouldering.

GALLERY
Frozen Utah: Andrew Burr presents the Beehive State’s most plastic and thunkadelic waterfall ice.

HIDDEN TREASURE
Monster roofs, Southern-fried bucket hauls, and the friendliest locals you’d hope to meet: it’s the Obed, Tennessee’s premier (and pristine) sport-climbing arena.
By Chris Van Leuven • Photos by Jim Thornburg

SANDBLASTED
Four Americans endure travel-scam hell to reach a silent limestone nirvana — the multi-pitch walls and spires of Taghia Gorge, Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
By Cody Roth • Photos by Andrew Burr

THE STYLE THAT COUNTS
The life, climbs, and artistic vision of Andy Parkin, the gritty British alpinist for whom Style is spelled with a capital “S.”
By Rob Coppolillo

8 CONFESSIONS OF A CLIMBING MOM
A mother of two and longtime climber examines the sometimes frightening — and always demanding — intersection of motherhood and climbing.
By Susan E.B. Schwartz

DEPARTMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS
Suzanne Hurt, Cody Roth, Mike Tea, and Susan E.B. Schwartz

EDITORIAL
Climbing is only as small as your mind.

LETTERS

BASECAMP
JUST OUT
HOT FLASHES
OFF THE WALL
PLAYERS
TEN THINGS
GET SCRAPPY
ROADKILL
SUSTAINED

CLASSIC CLIMBS
Ham and Eggs (V 5.9 AI4), Mooses Tooth, Ruth Gorge: a sweet, alpine-Alaska moderate

TECH TIP
Sport: parent-tested tactics for climbing with kiddos

REVIEWS
The Sharp End, Mountain Star, and a new Araps guide

PERSPECTIVE
Steph Davis: free soloist, BASE jumper, animal lover, gardener, perpetual student, road warrior; Moab, Utah