FEATURES

GALLERY I
Smith, Squamish, alpine gnar, and bloc perfection — feast your eyes on these primo images.

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