Wicked Gravity: It’s Miller time: local legend wields his own secret weapon
The Patagonian wind strengthened throughout the day. Gusts threw me off balance as I climbed, shaking my confidence.
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Wicked Gravity: Climbing through racism, for better or worse
She sees the good in people and chooses to believe insulting words are usually born of ignorance, not malice.
Wicked Gravity: Order among the chaos
Racial inequity, Covid, messy politics of this election year ... climbing headlines just haven’t been a priority in my column lately.
Wicked Gravity: Brown Girls Climb: Empowering women of color in the outdoors
“Denial is the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations. It is beating within us.” Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be An Antiracist
Wicked Gravity: The climbing grief fund
In the short film, A Thousand Ways To Kiss The Ground, filmmaker Henna Taylor, of Boulder, has you look into the eyes of climbers and their loved ones grappling with...
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: 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.