Oakley Anderson-Moore As a rock climber, adventure seeker, and/or a general outdoors person you’ve probably seen your share of adventure films. Sometimes they are adrenaline laden shorts or music video visual montages. Oakley Anderson-Moore set out to make a film that’s also a cultural history project about the roots of climbing in the US, interviewing…
Continue ReadingYosemite has decided to make the hiking permit system apply everyday the cables are up starting in Spring of 2011. Previously they were only required for weekend hiking. In 2011, free permits are available up to about four months in advance only through the National Recreation Reservation Service (NRRS). As before, backpackers with an appropriate…
Continue ReadingI went on a camping trip to Green Valley Lake, California last weekend with my sister and her family which includes her husband and her two identical twin girls, who just turned 3. Here are a few things I learned: 1. When you go camping you “co-op-er-ate” 2. You do not get fussy when camping….
Continue ReadingThe consensus has come in, the 2nd Annual JTreeTweetup will be held November 12-14, 2010 (with some participants arriving earlier in the week). If you missed last year’s event here’s the short story: a tweetup is a gathering of folks who use Twitter. The JTreeTweeup is a climbing/camping gathering of climbers who use Twitter and…
Continue ReadingJust a quick post to give a shout out to some friends of mine who summited or are very close to summiting a mountain peak. First off Jeremy, who I’ve known because of Twitter and because of two Climbing Tweetups (JTreeTweetup and Red Rocks Tweetup), he just summited Mt. Kilimanjaro and is now preparing for…
Continue ReadingSummer is upon us, at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere any way. Depending on where you are that can mean hot and humid, hot and dry, scorching hot, or hot and thunderstorms. Can you still get your climb on? I’ve found myself climbing in all of those conditions in various parts…
Continue ReadingAn exasperated driver next to me exclaimed, “Really!?! Guy, really!?!” I had pushed the pedestrian crosswalk button and a car had stopped about 3 feet away from the painted lines – right in front of the other driver who was wanting to make a left hand turn. I only heard this driver because his window…
Continue ReadingI’ve added new graphic illustration designs to my climbing & outdoors shop. Some of you might be able to guess the references I used (hint I made them based on a photo I took last year at a memorable bouldering session). If you give up, the answer is at the top of the thumbnail page…
Continue ReadingYosemite National Park has moved to a permit system for hikers going up Half Dome on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and holidays while the cables are up. Rockclimbers going up a technical route and not entering the subdome area will not need permits to descend. Backpackers will receive a permit as part of their Wilderness…
Continue ReadingLast Saturday I went out to one of the local crags, Echo Cliffs which is a cliff formation in the Santa Monica Mountain range. It was a beautiful day and had the added treat of being the second time I got to hang out with Teri, one of the climbers I know on Twitter. We…
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