Granite. Climbers love it, even as it tears their flesh, steals their gear, and makes them feel oh-so-small. You know how granite feels under your hands and feet, how it smells, and the way it turns to gold in the last light of day, but here are a few things you probably didn't know.
Trying mini-projects, routes that will take you a few days instead of a few weeks, replicate the long-term project cycle in a compressed time period, simulating the mental and emotional components of limit redpointing.
The stats and science behind the Valley’s constantly exfoliating granite.
Yosemite geologists, with the help of climbers, are inching closer to answering the elusive question: "Why do rocks fall?"