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Solo on the Muir: via the YOSAR finish - Click for details
 Solo on the Muir: via the YOSAR finish
Time to think is a rarity in the modern world. Busy work schedules and increasing use of technology have worked incessantly to diminish our time for free thought and ...

by POTATO
7,762 May 31, 2012 76
The Fire Inside (a year in the life of a life of climbing)
by Riley Wyna
7,536 Jan 23, 2013 107
Yosemite Falls - The Middle Tier - Click for details
 Yosemite Falls - The Middle Tier
These are photos from a 2006 trip down the Inner Falls in Yosemite. Below is an overview of the route. We did it in late October, when the falls were dry: We decided...

by M. Volland
7,477 Aug 06, 2012 57
Falling on the Nose: A Four Month Journey - Click for details
 Falling on the Nose: A Four Month Journey
Sometime at the end of May, my climbing partner, Zach, and I took our first attempt at climbing El Capitan and started up on the Nose. It did not end well. This trip report ...

by MikeDrake
7,328 Dec 04, 2012 41
How I Learned to Climb the NIAD in 3 Days and 2 Nights - Click for details
 How I Learned to Climb the NIAD in 3 Days and 2 Nights
Warning: zero-beta alert. In fact, there is nothing insightful about this trip report. Our accomplishment is tarnished by the fact that thousands upon thousands before us ha...

by tahoe523
7,309 Sep 13, 2012 68
Evolution Traverse: How I Owe it All to an Apple - Click for details
 Evolution Traverse: How I Owe it All to an Apple
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. - T. S. Eliot. My obsession with Evolution Traverse began three years ago whi...

by noriko nakagawa
7,100 Nov 21, 2012 95
A long long day on the Snake Dike - Click for details
 A long long day on the Snake Dike
I meant to write this shortly after we got back, but never got around to it. So here it goes... My buddy Mose and I had talked about doing Snake Dike for a long time, but...

by PAUL SOUZA
7,078 Dec 05, 2011 36
PIXEL-PUSHER GEEKS SCALE EL CAP - Click for details
 PIXEL-PUSHER GEEKS SCALE EL CAP
For the past 10+ years, I’ve lived in New York City as a city slicker. My relatively rugged upbringing in rural Lake Arrowhead, CA, has given way to weekly spa massages and a ...

by stratfordnyc
6,952 Jan 08, 2012 67
Gold Member II - A Wall of Solid 24 K Granite - Click for details
 Gold Member II - A Wall of Solid 24 K Granite
A week after the South Face of Watkins with Tommy Caldwell, i called up my longest-known climbing partner Mark Melvin. Mark is the guy who first took me up the West Face...

by Chris McNamara
6,864 Oct 17, 2012 30
The Nose in a Day, 10/09 - Click for details
 The Nose in a Day, 10/09
It all started in the Fall of ‘08 when Jay and Jeanette Rennenberg climbed the Nose. I hadn’t been up El Cap since 1979 and was really feeling the longing in my heart. I email...

by Mark Hudon
6,694 Oct 29, 2012 28
Iron Hawk - Solo* - Click for details
 Iron Hawk - Solo*
*Almost. I was more exhausted than I can remember ever being. Not only was I physically beaten, but my self- confidence had become severely shaken. I had taken ...

by Mark Hudon
6,686 Nov 05, 2012 108
New Route near Washington Column (A Trip Report) - Click for details
 New Route near Washington Column (A Trip Report)
Me and Coondog had been itchin' to git on some new stone lately. I wuz tired of the ol nine to five down at the baitshop and he just got his self laid off at the puppy chow p...

by micronut
6,580 Jan 23, 2013 52
Mt. Sill : Swiss Arete - Click for details
 Mt. Sill : Swiss Arete
I've wanted to climb this route for years .. in 2007 I actually made plans to go in July, but instead broke my foot, and then my neck. That kind of derailed things for a whil...

by rhyang
6,578 Aug 26, 2011 44
A Chilly Half Dome With My Daughter - Click for details
 A Chilly Half Dome With My Daughter
The astute reader might be detecting a trend in our choice of routes lately. But at the risk of covering some well-trodden territory, here is our fun, if nippy and long, da...

by Jim Herson
6,541 Nov 23, 2012 49
The Reticent Wall - Click for details
 The Reticent Wall
I believe that life is a journey, not a destination. Today’s modern society is structured in a way which makes it easy to live life without any obstacles. Sometimes we need to...

by Neil Chelton
6,479 Jan 23, 2013 38
Half Dome NW Face - The Good, The Bad, and The Obsession With Bivying on Big Sandy - Click for details
 Half Dome NW Face - The Good, The Bad, and The Obsession With Bivying on Big Sandy
Big wall lesson number one and meeting some cool people on the NW Face of Half Dome. It was one of those moments when you’re there at the base of a long route and a mount...

by TripleS_in_EBs
6,289 Dec 03, 2012 57
MY SPIRITUAL TRIP THROUGH LIFE
by Pastor Dave
6,201 Aug 22, 2011 156
Hall of Mirrors rebolting - October 30, 2011 - Click for details
 Hall of Mirrors rebolting - October 30, 2011
Psyched by Alex Honnold's recent 3rd ascent of Hall of Mirrors, and his report on the condition of the bolts, Chris Cantwell wanted to do a rebolting trip, and I jumped at the...

by Clint Cummins
6,182 Jan 23, 2013 99
Zenyatta Mondatta-Solo, June 2011 - Click for details
 Zenyatta Mondatta-Solo, June 2011
I need to thank John Fine and Mike O. for a bit of proofreading and both suggesting that I work harder and make the story more compelling. My life for the last year has been p...

by Mark Hudon
6,158 Oct 29, 2012 84
Sunkist, May 2011 - Threading the Needle - Click for details
 Sunkist, May 2011 - Threading the Needle
Ever since Gary Thunen and I made an early ascent of Son of Heart in 1986 I've been intrigued by Sunkist. Looking out and down from the Tonsillectomy Traverse at the A5 Arch ...

by Gagner
6,124 Feb 15, 2013 85
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