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Learning to climb at the Garden of the Gods
I learned to climb on the soft sandstone at the Garden of the Gods, a city park on the west side of Colorado Springs. The first route I ever
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Teeing up the Devil's Golfball
Another great day out in the sandstone canyon country surrounding Moab, Utah. Sometimes it feels like the center of the universe, the red ce
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Dateline 1997: Climbing on Pikes Peak with Earl Wiggins
After I posted a photo on Facebook of Earl Wiggins at the Garden of the Gods the other day I got to thinking about a route we climbed on Pik