Gravsports

I've been writing about movement, flying and of course training some, but with another rider busted in the Tour de France today my thoug...

I clearly remember the first time I saw someone who could truly walk well in the mountains. I was in Mexico, basically lost deep in Copper ...

I keep having these Boulder flashbacks... Over 20 years ago I drove an ancient, even for then, van into the Eldorado parking lot for the fir...

Edit--thanks to Chris Webster for the photo, taken shortly after launch at Lookout. That's the Coors plant and the source of the beer th...

I'm in Boulder, Colorado. Just mention the name and most people have an idea of the place and the societal meaning. Hippies, athletes, ...

My bud Sonnie Trotter finally sent Rhapsody ( edit, brain junk ), which is a really hard trad (meaning no bolts) line over in Scotland. If y...

Title a blog entry, "One Truth," and readers will likely be expecting something monumental. After all, successful religions have b...

Who knew that home renos and climbing go together so well? I've been bouldering a ton lately, as the weather is junk and my project rout...

A friend of mine, John Harlin, sent me a link today that is just great --stellar aerial photos of Mt. Robson taken just a few days ago by J...

I've been outside climbing a bunch--perfect spring days, nice temps, loving it. And then it started to rain on Tuesday or so, still OK j...

How many times have I worried about whether to go climbing or not because of some seemingly important event that somehow meant I maybe shoul...

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...