Yosemite Blog

Category: Climbing

  • Renowned Climber Todd Skinner Killed While Climbing The Leaning Tower

    In a huge shock to the climbing community Todd Skinner, a world renowned climber and one of the greats of the sport, fell while climbing The Leaning Tower and was killed. Our deepest sympathies to his family. If you want to know more about Todd Skinner there’s a good article about the accident here and…

  • Only serious climbers can tackle El Capitan

    The Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio.com) has a pretty good article with some good information about climbing El Capitan. Akron Beacon Journal: “El Capitan — also called The Chief and The Big Rock — features gray granite that is especially tough and weather resistant. That makes it very appealing to climbers, many of whom consider El…

  • Only A Few Days Left Until Yosemite Climbing Art Auction

    Just a few more days until the Yosemite Climbing Association art auction at the Ansel Adams Gallery and it sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun. There’s going to be lots of great artwork by some of the greats artists of our time including: Galen Rowell, Greg Epperson, Vern Clevenger, Chris Falkenstein,…

  • Help A Great Cause, Get Some Awesome Artwork

    The Yosemite Climbing Association will be holding a silent art auction hosted by the Ansel Adams Gallery on October 22nd. The artwork will be available for viewing October 21st with bidding beginning the 22nd. Such notable artists as Galen Rowell, Greg Epperson, Vern Clevenger, Chris Falkenstein, Karl Bralich, Jody Langford, Michael Frye, Penny Otwell and…

  • Legal Wrangling Could End Climbing In Yosemite

    KTLA: “The rumble began high on the sheer cliff wall, like faraway thunder before a storm. A slab of granite as big as a railroad boxcar had let loose 1,300 feet up Glacier Point’s age-worn face. The million-pound rock cartwheeled and shattered, tracing a plume of dust downward toward Peter Terbush. In his last earthbound…

  • Lynn Hill: Climbing the West Face of The Leaning Tower with Katie Brown

    Here’s an excellent story from Lynn Hill’s blog you’re going to have to read. Lynn: Getting to the base of the Leaning Tower involved a one-hour hike uphill through large boulders, a thick pine forest with voracious mosquitoes, then along the base of the wall, and finally, across a third class ledge system leading out…

  • New Rules Put Rangers and Climbers At Odds

    This year there was a change in the rules for overnight camping in Yosemite Valley allowing visitors to camp in Yosemite Valley only 7 days. Though the move was meant to encourage more visitors to explore other areas of the Park it’s left members of the climbing community out in the cold. South Florida Sun-Sentinel:…

  • Climbing The Dihedral Wall: Adventure Climbing El Capitan

    From the very first days, Yosemite has long been the premier place climbers to prove their worth. Whether free climbing on El Capitan or bouldering in any one of the fields around the Valley the heart of climbing beats in Yosemite like in no other place in the world. In this months issue of Climbing…