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 Tech Tip - Big Wall - Your first one-day
Proper technique and strategy are keys to turning that Grade VI into a mere 12-hour climb.  Tech Tip - Trad - Escape a belay for self rescue
Your best option is always self-rescue. Escaping the belay requires a few simple knots. Master these before you need them.  Tech Tip - Alpine - Lightning aversion
Lightning-related accidents kill approximately 200 people each year. Those who spend their time in high, exposed terrain are at a greater risk — especially climbers and mountaineers carrying metal gear.  Tech Tip - Sport - Four limbs
French or not, you’ll begin to flow effortlessly over the stone if you increase your body awareness.  Tech Tip - Aid - 2:1 Hauling Ratchet
Big-wall climbing is just a different kind of suffering, and never do you suffer more than when hauling, especially during the first few days when your loads are heaviest.  Tech Tip - Training - Pilates your way to stronger deltoids
Look around the crag or climbing gym and you’ll notice all the people with forward-rolling shoulders, like those of the hunch-backed gargoyles atop Paris’ Cathedral of Notre Dame.  Tech Tip - Ice - Stein Pulling
Stein Pulls — tool placements where the pick and the head of your axe are set in opposition — are the coolest holds you’ll encounter when dry tooling.  Tech Tips - Trad - Grateful head
Why do I sometimes feel confident high above a row of tiny pieces, half a mile off the deck, and other times reach peak pucker factor with my shoe laces still threatening to tangle with my last bomber placement?  Tech Tips - Aid - Froggy goes a juggin’
You’re back at the base of El Cap, ready to jug the ropes you fixed on the radically overhanging Tangerine Trip. Nothing to do but clip on your ascenders and start jugging.  Tech Tips - Alpine - Cold play
Glove management is a complex issue, even to those well versed in winter travel.  Tech Tips - Sport - Gym dandy
With their well-padded and obstruction-free environs, indoor bouldering gyms are supposed to be safer than outdoor rocks.  Tech Tips - Aid - Avoid the big ride
The term “Expando” refers to any crack or flake that moves when pressured. These fissures can run the gamut from huge, creaky flakes to micro splitter cracks.  Tech Tips - Trad - Rubber up
This day, however, was the day I would climb it: I’d recently developed a rubber crack-climbing glove that worked extremely well on the many other splitters at Frog Buttress.  Tech Tips - Alpine - Grin and bear it
When visibility goes, confusion often arrives. Unless you have a Scottish Highlands sixth sense for whiteout navigation, knowing basic compass work is a necessity.  Tech Tips - Sport - Hands down
As you climb the friendly slab, you constantly remind Bubba not to release his brake hand. He doesn’t seem to be getting it. |
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