Megan Starich continues to recover and write and explore what the outdoors mean to her. In climbing and skiing and writing and everything in between, she’s grateful for a life filled with joy and love and adventure and food and family. Similar Reads Wanted: Crag Nanny for Average Climbi...
You know what I mean? Times have changed, you know. We’re now a part of US Climbing. We weren’t when I started and I was the first female USA paraclimber to compete in a USA climbing comp. It was me and Ronnie Dickson again, and Craig DiMartino and like three other dudes. ...
Most of my climbing partners can do some short, shitty 5.10 or 5.11 off on the side of the crag, dork around on a portable hangboard, then start giving burns on their project, even if it has V-Hard sequences. They’re, like, ready to go after a half hour—WTF?Of course, most o...
though in reality there are still another two hours of climbing needed to reach it. One of my team, Margaret Watroba, made the agonising decision to turn round here on May 19 this year, but many are not so wise. A dead body currently rests at the bottom of the Third Step, shiel...
And does being killed by a falling baby grande on El’ Captain go into the climbing category or the grand category? Some sports have odd risks. On a more serious note, a previous associate did do some analysis of paragliding crashes in NZ, as head of the paragliding association, and found...
(And I know they were just examples, sorry I don’t mean to be sooo literal,) I mean, “a still lake at midnight with the moon hanging low,” could certainly inspire the reaction in me: Wow, that’s a really gorgeous view over there, or whatever, but, never, ever goosebumps. (Sh...