Wicked Gravity: Climbing’s latest move to nix offensive nomenclature
The first Canadian mountain I ever climbed is an attractive, rocky peak just southwest of Canmore, Alberta — a long day’s drive from Seattle, where I lived back in 1995.
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Wicked Gravity: Climbing’s latest move to nix offensive nomenclature
The first Canadian mountain I ever climbed is an attractive, rocky peak just southwest of Canmore, Alberta — a long day’s drive from Seattle, where I lived back in 1995.
Wicked Gravity: Bursting Boulder’s bubble: A racist act, a noble heart
Cousin is a 50-year-old African-American man, 20-year Boulder resident and a climber-turned-ultrarunner.
Wicked Gravity: Climbing out of racism
Racism in America is far more pervasive, complex and devious than I had realized.
Wicked Gravity: Paul Robinson’s journey of a thousand boulders
In early March, Paul Robinson was two weeks into an 8-week bouldering trip to Switzerland when Covid-19 exploded in Europe.
Wicked Gravity: Boulder-based climbing magazine celebrates 50 years
I’ll always remember that photo of Peter Croft pressing his palms and legs outward against two sides of a blank, granite corner, hundreds of feet in the air. You could...
Wicked Gravity: The silver lining to this pandemic cloud
Lately, it feels as if the walls of the world have closed in and cut us off from the big picture, from convention, from each other.
![The COVID-19 pandemic has had a surprising effect on climbers. Not physically, mind you, but sociologically. Of all times — even as climbing itself has never seemed less significant — now is when climbers should be supporting one another. In fact, the opposite is taking place. We have turned on each other in a way […]](https://www.coloradodaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Earth-Voyage-1.jpg?w=131 "The COVID-19 pandemic has had a surprising effect on climbers. Not physically, mind you, but sociologically. Of all times — even as climbing itself has never seemed less significant — now is when climbers should be supporting one another. In fact, the opposite is taking place. We have turned on each other in a way […]")
Wicked Gravity: To climb or not to climb; Our sport’s most divisive issue
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a surprising effect on climbers. Not physically, mind you, but sociologically. Of all times — even as climbing itself has never seemed less significant —...
Wicked Gravity: Mixed messages
We’re learning as we go and asking questions like: How do we stay healthy? How do we stay sane? How do we do our part for society?
Wicked Gravity: Local crusher Colin Duffy of Team ABC makes Olympics
Even as climbing federations across the globe are canceling major climbing contests due to the coronavirus outbreak, the 2020 Olympic Games — at least for now — remain full steam...