There is a saying in climbing that ‘light is right’. Let’s take a closer look at that. You will shortly discover that this story is yet another in the genre of ‘back in the bad old days’… I suppose once you reach a certain age there is more reflection on […]

Sometime way back in the early eighties we were in Yosemite. We weren’t very good climbers in terms of high grades, and committing climbs, but we were enjoying the hell out of life. Because of our modest capabilities we had our sights set on a number of obscure climbs that were within our meager limits and away from […]

The three attributes of an alpinist are: A high pain tolerance, a bad memory, and… I forget the third one It turns out that everything in Roger’s Pass is hard. This was our last day, and we would soon be heading out after breaking camp. It was early morning and […]

Climbing is hard. So is getting old. Combine the two of them…. Well…. You will see… It had been two years almost to the day that we were last in Squamish. That trip, also documented here on PGH was fantastic, and we were planning on replicating that. It was the […]

Here it is… the long awaited, albeit short, final installment of the Adventures of the Twenty-nine Palms Gypsies… Once again Renee was skillfully at the helm; she pointed the truck back in the direction of sin city. Real music playing on the stereo man, real music. Back across the Mojave, […]

Another long awaited (or dreaded) tale of the adventures of the twenty-nine palms gypsies… Turtle Rock, 2009. We had wanted to climb some of the longer climbs on this feature. There apparently is no rap route, so it’s a walk-off. The guidebook recommends that it’s probably in your best interests […]