Give the Gift of Books This Year: Check Out My New Adventure Books
Once again, it’s the annual holiday season, the giving time of the year. Most of us are trying to figure out what kind of gifts to give...
Time Stands Still at Indian Creek Canyon
Here's a short essay that I wrote In September 2003 about Indian Creek Canyon for an Indian Creek climbing guidebook that...
Essay on Indian Creek and Supercrack
Indian Creek. To me, there has always been magic in that name. That sinuous canyon, lined with soaring walls of ruddy Wingate sandstone...
NEW BOOK RELEASE: Best Climbs Moab 2nd Edition
I'm happy to announce that the new 2nd edition of my book BEST CLIMBS MOAB was released by FalconGuiides at the beginning of April and i
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
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
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
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
Watermelon after the 6th Ascent of Castleton Tower in 1971
After Jimmie Dunn and I did the sixth ascent of Castleton Tower near Moab on Labor Day weekend in 1971, we trundled down the gravel slopes t
