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Discovery of Supercrack in 1971
Here are a couple paragraphs excerpted from "The Perfect Crack: The First Ascent of Supercrack," a chapter from a book I'm wor
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Dateline 1982: Photographing Annual Reports
I've been reducing my library of thousands of books over the past few years, either giving them away or selling them on Amazon. This mor
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Flag Day 1911: John Otto Climbs Indy
Flag Day. June 14, 1911. We salute you, John Otto, pathfinder, patriot, trail-builder, first superintendent of Colorado National Monument, c
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The Moab Mastodon: Did the Big Beast Once Roam Utah?
The Moab Mastodon, a petroglyph on on a cliff band 300 feet above Hys Bottom on the Colorado River north of Moab, Utah, possibly represents
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Ed Webster: Desert Travels with Climbing Buddy
Ed Webster--climber extraordinaire, Everest mountaineer, and prolific first ascensionist--was out here in Colorado from his Maine homestead
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1971: First Ascent of Castleton Tower's West Face
In late November 1971, I made the first ascent of the West Face of Castleton Tower near Moab with Jimmie Dunn and Billy Westbay. We had alre