

Learning to soar like an eagle with rock solid belaying
So you’re finally ready for that red point attempt, the one you’ve been working up to for the last month. You’ve worked all of the...


H.I.T. me please: Training for strength and endurance (and frat-boys).
A few years ago I was at my most favorite bouldering location of all time: Joe’s Valley in Utah. Naise and I had found this amazing...


Cowboys, pigs, and slopers.
Growing up in Nebraska, one of my family’s favorite summer time activities was attending rodeos. Those cowboys and cowgirls are some...


Love, hate, and Ben Moon
Remember that PE teacher you had in middle school? The one who made you run wind sprints ‘because it would make you a better person’? ...


Dancing in the vertical, three points of contact, and breaking 5.8.
Someone once called rock climbing ‘dancing in the vertical’. I like that. Successful climbing requires much the same as dancing. There...


Goals, Donny Osmond, and training S.M.A.R.T.
When I was twelve years old, my dream was to be a pop star. Donny Osmond to be specific. Donny was the Justin Bieber of my day (minus...


Defying gravity, centering your universe, and maybe impressing Ima.
Gravity: it happens! And for some reason seems most accentuated at the most inopportune times (like that time in high school when I was...


Do this one thing and you WILL climb better.
‘If you can climb a ladder, you can climb a route at Bliss.’ We tell people this all the time, and it’s true. Many of our introductory...