Thirty Days of Sport

Friday, February 7, 2025

“You are NOT allowed to say you are bad at a style of climbing until you have spent at least 30 days climbing it.” The wise words of Karly Rager echoed from my speaker in an episode of The Average Climber, The 30-day Rule. Karly had sent this episode to me after suggesting I embark upon *Sport Mode*, a thought so alien and terrifying that I quivered in my house slippers.…

On Projecting

Thursday, January 25, 2024

TBD. Coming soon!

An Ode to Finger Cracks

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

“When did she get into this? I blame you Will.” One of my climbing partners, Kathy, shook her head on our latest climbing trip in Joshua Tree over Thanksgiving. Our friendship started with a fetish for offwidth cracks and a Moab Clinic but a year later, I expanded my tastes to include the very thin world of finger cracks. A day later, after Kathy left, Will and I hopped on what I hoped to be a new project, Right V Crack (5.…

A climbing blog

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Three weeks ago, I decided to get a coach! My friend Kathy and I had decided to spend time working on slab and the primordial fear that struck my soul leading greasy slab led me to one thought: okay time to fix my face climbing and fear of falling. Hilariously, I used to be better at face climbing and slab but after spending a LOT of time exclusively climbing and leading cracks I realized that is definitely no longer the case.…