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  • Yosemite Climbing Association Facelift On The Way

    Yosemite is a beautiful place but by the end of summer it can be a little messy from the millions of visitor feet tromping up and down trails bringing with them thousands of pounds of garbage and debris. That’s why every year the Yosemite Climbing Association organizes a park-wide cleanup to help restore the park…

  • Climbing Lost Arrow Spire

    If you’ve ever thought about trying your hand at climbing any of Yosemite’s granite walls here’s a great video to watch of the climb up Lost Arrow Spire including the Tyrollean Traverse. Nice job guys.

  • 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…

  • Rock Climbing in Yosemite (Google Video)

    Dane sent me this great video he found over at Google Video. Here’s the synopsis. Imagine facing a granite wall 2,500 feet straight up with only five strangers to help you climb to the top. Imagine traversing a … all » two-thousand feet deep canyon on a rope, pulling yourself all the way. Imagine camping…

  • Yosemite makes for climbing at its best

    Yosemite is famous the world over for it’s big wall climbing and for years has been the mecca of climbing enthusiasts. Here’s an article from one such enthusiast in South Africa who made the trip just to get his share of the glory. IOL: “Fingerlocks, laybacks and jamming were the order of the day until…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Climber Dreams of Preserving Yosemite’s Rich Climbing History

    Yosemite has long been felt as the “heart” of big wall climbing in America. In fact, much of what we know as climbing today was pioneered in Yosemite or by climbers who’d grown up climbing Yosemite’s big walls. Here’s one man who’d like to see that rich history preserved. LA Times (free registration required):During three…

  • Terra Galleria: Climbing Yosemite

    If you liked the previous article on climbing The Nose, you’re not going to want to miss QT Luong’s photos over at Terra Galleria. There’s a great number of images of Yosemite climbs including The Nose, Shield, Leaning Tower, Washington Column, Zodiac, and Reticent. There’s also a great section of photos from various places on…