#Climbing How to Make Your Tent Last Forever

Your home away from home may be made of wispy nylon and slender aluminum poles, but it gives you critical protection from wind, rain, sun, and snow. Tents endure plenty of stress in their battle against the elements. Prolonged exposure to bright sun can damage and weaken your tent’s fabrics. ...

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#Climbing How to Keep Your Pack From Getting Gross

Pack damage is innocuous at first—fraying webbing, abrasion on the packbag, small tears in mesh or stretch-woven pockets—but if left unattended, these little glitches could eventually spell doom for your beloved load hauler. Hungry critters, UV damage and mold can compromise your pack’s water ...

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#Climbing How to Keep Your Feet Dry

Undoubtedly one of the most important pieces of gear in our arsenal, boots have a very direct effect on the comfort and success of any hiking trip. There are two kinds of boots out there: those that are waterproof and those that are not. To be truly waterproof, a boot must have a membrane—like ...

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#Climbing How to Care for Quality Raingear

Your rainwear should last many years, but only if you know how to keep it working properly. Follow these tips, from Kristin Hostetter’s “Complete Guide to Outdoor Gear Maintenance and Repair: Step-by-Step Techniques to Maximize Performance and Save Money,” to keep your rainwear finely tuned, ...

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#Climbing Remembering Alpinists Marc-André Leclerc and Ryan Johnson

On March 13, at 10:53 P.M., Marc-André Leclerc’s father posted the news that his son, and partner Ryan Johnson, who had been missing for a week after climbing a new route on the North face of Alaska's Main Mendenhall Tower, were dead. Alaska Department of Safety reported from the Mendenhall Ice ...

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#Climbing USA Climbing 2018 Sport and Speed Open National Championship Livestreams

The USA Climbing 2018 Sport and Speed Open National Championships will take place Friday, March 16, and Saturday, March 17, at Mesa Rim Climbing Center in Reno, Nevada. Watch the qualifiers, semi-finals, and finals below. Qualification Round - 2018 Speed Climbing Open National ...

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#Climbing The Rain Room

On a typical day in Mawsynram, India, locals contend with an astonishing 1.3 inches of rain. If you do the math, that’s an annual total of 40 feet of precipitation, making their town the wettest place on the planet. Or at least the wettest place outside of Marmot’s rain room. In this spare facility ...

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#Climbing Unsent: Climbr—Climbing Partner Reviews

Unsent /un-sent/ 1. To have failed so badly on a route you had previously climbed that you negate your redpoint. 2. A humor column. Steve★★★★★Steve is a great belayer. After I whipped five times, hung for 10 minutes, pulled off a block and nearly hit him, pitched a wobbler, aided through the move, ...

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#Climbing Search for Leclerc and Johnson Continues

Search crews are still looking for two missing climbers, Marc-Andre Leclerc and Ryan Johnson, in and around the Mendenhall Towers outside of Juneau, Alaska. Helicopter flights to the towers resumed Sunday after two days of adverse weather conditions prevented searchers from accessing the area. A ...

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#Climbing Climbing Magazine Print Preview: May 2018 Gear Guide

Editor's Note:Gear Up!In the mid-1980s, an instructor in the New Mexico Mountain Club gave me my first rock shoes, a pair of blown-out Firé Cats. There weren’t a lot of shoe options then (like, maybe, three?), but anything was better than my Chuck Taylors. Ecstatic, I put on a pair of wool socks to ...

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#Climbing Longform Interview: Alex Honnold Talks to Rich Roll

Alex Honnold joins ultrarunner Rich Roll on his podcast for a nearly two-hour conversation, covering everything from Honnold's El Cap free solo, Antartica expedition, diet, training, and more (download it here). Related:Our 4 Favorite Climbing Podcasts

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#Climbing Stay Dry Tip: The Secret of Sacred Clothes

Stay dry in the wettest conditions with Marmot’s EVODry – rainwear reinvented at the molecular level. www.marmot.com

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#Climbing The Evolv X1: An Evolution In High-Performance Slippers

“On steep terrain, I could roll into sidepull edges, and I knew right away I was standing in the perfect spot—it felt like there was nothing between me and the rock.” —Daniel Woods December 13, 2017, San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside, California. Paul Robinson and Daniel Woods gathered at the Golden ...

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#Climbing Marc-Andre Leclerc and Ryan Johnson Missing During New Route Attempt in Alaska

Marc-Andre Leclerc, a star alpinist and free soloist from Agassiz, B.C., and Ryan Johnson of Juneau, Alaska, are missing, after failing to return from a first ascent attempt in Alaska's Mendenhall Towers on the Juneau Icefield. The pair was last heard from on Monday, March 5, when Leclerc ...

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#Climbing Beyond the Mostest: James Pearson on Power Ranger (5.14 R)

Note: The climbing starts at 9:00. In search of the ultimate trad route, James Pearson decided he needed to "become a true French" in order to conquer Le Bronx (5.14c/8c+), a route freed by Francois Petit in 1994 in Orgon, France. Now Pearson's metamorphosis continues as he travels to ...

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#Climbing San Juan Silver: Southwest Colorado’s Treasure Trove of Waterfall Ice Climbs

Waterfall ice in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado is almost as plentiful as the 48-ounce steaks served free in Texas ... if you can eat the whole thing in one sitting, that is. And much like the allure of those free steaks, so too do the silver threads of San Juan ice come with their ...

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#Climbing Rock Climbing on Mars: A Simulation

If you live in the Portland, Oregon, area, you may have been surprised as you walked along the coast last August to see an astronaut dry-tooling up a cliff. “Why are you doing that?” you might have asked, to which he would have replied, “Testing”—namely, testing to see how well his suit would ...

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#Climbing Watch Dani Arnold Ice Climb Out of a Glacier

Most climbers try to avoid falling into the depths of a glacier. In this video, Dani Arnold travels directly into the belly of the beast, hiking deep into a cave at the base of Switzerland's Plaine-Morte glacier and then climbs back to daylight. Related:Dani Arnold Breaks Matterhorn Speed ...

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#Climbing Progression: How Keenan Takahashi Is Pushing the Highball Envelope

In September 2014, the Californian Keenan Takahashi grabbed a crimp with his left hand. He curled his right hand around another crimp on the 30-foot Kush Boulder, below Yosemite’s Lost Brother formation. His mustache formed a thick broom on his upper lip, which quivered with exertion. He steadied ...

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#Climbing Paul Robinson: The Internal Battle To Send Jumpman (V14)

Take a glimpse into Paul Robinson's internal monologue during his long battle to send Jumpman V14 in Boulder Canyon, Colorado.

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