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Somebody else has likely pointed this out already on the web somewhere, but a modern Crossfit "Box" looks a lot more like a gym fr...

It took two months longer than I thought it would, but I'm finally done with the course syllabus for "Mountain Movement." The ...

I just returned from a really interesting weekend: A Crossfit Level One Cert. Just to be clear, I paid for the certification out of my own p...

NOTE: The following rests on the foundation of moving in control. "Control" means securely, with solid belays, and with an attenti...

There's been a bunch of discussion over on rockclimbing.com about the last speed post, thought I'd post a few things that answered ...

After a week with my friend Andreas Spak in Norway I've got some things to say about speed on big routes. Andreas climbs faster than mos...

Norway 2010 is wrapping up. It's been a great trip--as always, Andreas Spak and I found insane ice, climbed it, and are destroyed. Chris...

Norway! I love climbing in the land of big new routes with my friend Andreas Spak. Yeah! I've done more ice climbing this season than I ...

Here's a little video sports action of the Endless Ascent effort, shot by my friend Scott Milton. Memories, memories! Nice work Scott an...

I just spent two days at the Redstone Winterfest, in Redstone, Colorado. Redstone is a small town on the western side of the Colorado Rockie...

I'm just back home after climbing the coolest ice I've ever seen or climbed, anywhere in the world. Tim Emmett and I had a great tr...

Stuff I ate: 1/6 of an amazing, salty, peppery, mouth-savoring steak. One slice of pizza. About 10 or 15 Clif Blok packages (love the 3x Sod...

Training for dZi Endless Ascent First off, today was my first day back on the ice, two weeks to the day since we finished Endless Ascent. ...

I'm supposed to be writing about the Endless Ascent, and will get back to that, but I keep getting off on tangents. One thing I'm ve...

In the last 25 years I've spent a lot of time formally and informally teaching climbing, kayaking, paragliding and a few other sports. I...

It's Thursday, and I'm feeling halfway decent after the Endless Ascent . Over the next week or two I'm going to go through a few...

I'm back home, sitting at a desk and trying to type with (seriously) blisters on my hands and a fingernail on my right hand that protest...

In two and a half hours I'm going over the edge of the canyon at the Ouray Ice Park. In the 24 hours after that I'm going to climb o...

The Ice Park emptied out yesterday--I always see the park in the midst of the ice festival, when hundreds of climbers attack the hundreds of...