Fall Brad Rassler 14 min readDR. JESSE LEAMAN, ASTROPHYSICIST, KNOWS THE COSMOS. It’s his turf, in a manner of speaking. So we don’t interrupt as...Read More
Hells Canyon Revival CMarie Fuhrman 21 min readAnd always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world....Read More
David Beck: Architect of the Sierra High Route Brad Rassler 11 min readThey wear the slightly bemused expressions of those who have ordered their filet well-done, only to find it served up tartare –but they’re too proud to return the meat to the kitchen.Read More
The Ascent of the Riffelberg Mark Twain 21 min readOUR GUIDES, HIRED ON THE GEMMI, were already at Zermatt when we reached there. So there was nothing to interfere...Read More
That House of Happiness Andy Selters 17 min readIN 2012, I JOURNEYED with several climbing partners to an area of the Karakoram known only on satellite maps, arguably the last...Read More
Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19 Brad Rassler 7 min readIN JANUARY, I came across a snippet about a deadly virus cutting a swathe through China’s Hubei Province. I was...Read More
Abbey’s Back Brad Rassler 6 min readTHOUGH IT’S BEEN NEARLY THREE DECADES since Edward Abbey drained his last can of beer and flung it onto a Forest Service byway, his...Read More
Pretzel to E4 Chip Brown 7 min readThe match moved toward the endgame. He had no real chance of winning but stubbornly fought on.Read More
Life on the Divide John Dittli 10 min read“YOU AREN’T GONNA BUILD NO HOUSE OF STRAW IN MY COUNTY!” my wife Leslie and I were told by a small-town...Read More
Climbing to Freedom Dick Dorworth 14 min readThen she recounted a story that put climbing into a stark, perhaps primordial perspective, one that I’d never entertained or needed to entertain.Read More
Running Talus Brad Rassler 14 min readUnabashed, they climbed, skied, drank, smoked, danced, dropped, screwed, and designed gear, and schemed how to avoid the war in Asia.Read More
Derelictus in Flagrante Daniel Duane 17 min readHe damned himself as we scurried down the path: “My poor neglected wife,” he said, “to be married to such a delinquent malingerer.”Read More
Ashes into the Shadow of Arrows Brad Rassler 5 min read“There is a Paiute proverb to the effect that no man should attempt the country east of the Sierras until...Read More
Inside Rock Michael P. Cohen 11 min readWhen I see these stoned counters in other people’s houses, they seem, in their shape and their function, like places of business or places of death.Read More
The Winter Of His Disbelief John Dittli 10 min readI’M NOT A SUPERSTITIOUS GUY, BUT REALLY, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. I’m no meteorologist either, but after 35 years of...Read More
Searching for Jensen Brad Rassler 22 min readYES, I KNEW SOMETHING of the great mountaineer Don Jensen; after all, I bore witness to his Sierran legacy with every ramble...Read More
Walking Henry David Thoreau 54 min readI WISH TO SPEAK A WORD for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture...Read More
Time for a Tree House Michael P. Branch 8 min readACTUALLY, HANNAH AND CAROLINE never really asked me to build them a tree house. I came up with that idea myself,...Read More