INSTACRAGS
Lower Mill Creek Canyon, in Utah’s La Sal Mountains, might be the Southwest’s last bastion of undiluted adventure climbing. So what’s kept it off the radar so long . . . and what’s happening there now?
By Abbey Smith
Photos by John Dickey

DREAMTIME
A visual tour of Switzerland’s most fabled blocks, courtesy of the native son and master boulderer/photographer Fred Moix.
Photos by Fred Moix

WIDE LOADS
Tape up your hands, fists, forearms, and ankles, cinch up the jeans and high-top boots, and rack up the monster pro — it’s time to battle the West’s most brutal offwidths.
Photos by Andrew Burr

IN CIMA DELLO STIVALE
From Valle d’Aosta, to Varazze, to the Dolomites, to Val di Mello, the third-generation Italian-American Damon Corso takes you on a sport and bloc tour of the Top of the Boot — Mother Italy.
Story and Photos by Damon Corso

GALLERY II
Aid techniques, past and present; surreal Southwest “rockitecture”; and a Needles bombay to defy the imagination.

DEPARTMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS
Damon Corso, Fred Moix, Norio Matsumoto, and John Barry

EDITORIAL
Tricknology: how Photoshop magic transformed a toprope ogre

LETTERS

REVIEWS
Two ranges (Sierras and Rockies), two hot new photo books; Fred Beckey’s latest Cascades tome; and a geology primer for climbers

ANCHORED
Jason Haas spills the “dirt” on scary old bolts in the Fisher Towers.

PERSPECTIVE
Beth Wald: photojournalist, documentarian, globetrotter, climber; Boulder, Colorado

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