Gravsports

This spring two of my buds went over to Nepal to climb a new line on the south face of Annapurna, and decided to warm up with a quick trip u...

I am so psyched to climb that I can barely stand it. My knee is totally jacked (meniscus tear) which makes it a little more difficult, but t...

I first went up onto the Wapta Icefields when I was 12 or so. It was a powerful experience; big terrain, cold, warm huts, good people, all t...

It's my week to spray about stuff I've done I guess... I've had a bunch of emails (well, mostly from people like my parents) ask...

The schedule is coming together for a bit of a spring tour on the West coast. I've been teaching cross-country paragliding clinics for a...

Check it out. I don't completely agree with the author's take on why young men (and I think he dismisses the risk taking of young wo...

Last year Andreas Spak, Daniel Karlsson and a crew of characters went and climbed underground ice in Sweden. It was an insane trip for many ...

After a long absence due to various injuries, I finally got out climbing on Sunday. We wanted to keep it simple, so we hiked from my house u...

I thought this article on CNN was pretty funny , as I had a "weather" delay for a Jan 17th flight out of Montrose, Colorado. I rec...

Everybody makes New Year's resolutions. Given the number of minor but still debilitating injuries I've gone through in the last year...

To those of you who have been giving me alternate loads of grief and writing inspiration, thanks. It's been a mad four weeks: Ouray Ice ...

This is interesting... I think I'm going to order one and check it out, could be really good for paragliding in remote areas, backcountr...

A comment on my recent anti-PDF screed (and I still hate 'em as they're designed around using paper) got me thinking. The question ...

Whoever invented the PDF file format should be sent to the same sort of hell reserved for whoever took the auto-fill thingamabob off of gas ...

Haffner is a small canyon near my home. Really small-about 40 feet high, but with at least 20 mixed routes worth doing. I've been hittin...

About a month ago I got rid of my epic collection of hard plastic Nalgene bottles. I'd read enough stories suggesting that they likely w...

I've just spent two full days trying to drive from Whistler back home to Canmore. Road conditions have been abysmal--ice, snow, freezing...

A good friend recently sent me a few links about nutrition for sport. He's all fired up on this idea of counting "blocks" of c...

I'm over at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival, in Northern England. It's about as English as English gets in my mind. We went out fo...

It's that time of year again--Ice Season, yeah! I've already hiked to one non-existent climb and retreated off another, big fun. The...