I have been seriously limited by end of the semester time pressure. Hoping to get out reviews of Chuck Fryberger's film Pure and Brian Solano's Players, once I receive them. Also trying to decide on Bishop for the break. Hueco is too much of a...

"Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence then is this worship of the past?" Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the essay "Self-Reliance" I have...

There is a great interview at Planet Mountain with Alan Watts, the pioneer of sport-climbing in America. His attitude about the past is frank, straightforward,and real. Remember when "hangdogging" was a sin? You're lucky if you don't. A refreshing...

Andre DiFelice Trice V12 from peter beal on Vimeo. Since every website needs video of Trice on Flagstaff, here's mine. A few days later he did it.

Pat Ament under King Conquerer Crack at Flagstaff Mountain, November 2009 Yesterday was a beautiful day, cold but clear and dry. The snow was stubbornly hanging in there from the last snow in shady spots but the boulders up on Flagstaff were mostly...