“Tomorrow I Will Be Gone” is Outcrop Films’ début feature-length film. Set in the sandstone paradise of Rocklands, South Africa, the film follows a selection of Britain’s finest boulderers on their trip, grappling with the best the boulders have to offer. No interviews, no nonsense, just climbing. Tomorrow I Will Be Gone from Outcrop Films [...]
Words by David Lussier. Cam Shute and I returned to beautiful Mulvey Basin in Valhalla Provincial Park this past July and completed a new route on the South Face of Asgard Peak. Our cumulative efforts spread over two years along with an evolving vision resulting in a new independent line on the right side of [...]
This past summer I took the family to Banks Lake, Washington, and thought I would post a few pics from the trip. The area consists of a granite intrusion into the Grand Coulee at the end of Lake Roosevelt. Bring your swimming shorts, canoe, and “A” game to tackle some of the impossible hard granite [...]
Step. Step. Breathe. Step. Step. Breathe. This is my mantra. This is what’s keeping me focused and present and immune to the thought that one misplaced footstep will end my life. Step….Step….Breathe. The rain has stopped and my headlamp illuminates the glittery sheen on the snow ahead. It’s 3:00 in the morning and my teammates [...]
Story by Craig Stowell This is a story about two Dads making a return to climbing and training really hard (for busy Dads that is) this summer, culminating in a long-overdue trip into the backcountry after many years of absence due to kids, family, work, homesteading, life, etc. Devil’s Dome is an amazing Shark Fin [...]
Escape the grey this shoulder season and head to Kalymnos, Greece, an island of tufa-strewn seaside cliffs that boasts some of the best sport climbing in the world. I was there a few years ago from October to November and, although some days were chilly, it was a great time to avoid the crowds, enjoy the sun, flame out on overhangs, scuba dive in the Aegean Sea and eat the best yogurt and honey on earth.
The next time you’re in Las Vegas, skip Red Rocks for a day and drive southwest for half an hour to Mt Potosi. It’s a beautiful limestone cave that the locals have nicknamed “the beach” because of its sunny, south-facing crag. It’s steep, sporty and littered with beautiful people like Heather Robinson. Here is the [...]
Having an adventure is easy: walk out your door, put yourself in some form of harm’s way, suck it up, live to tell the tale. Reporting about an adventure can be a little bit harder. Usually we’ve experienced the highs and lows of the journey and then we grab a scotch, sit down in front [...]
Two Nelson, British Columbia residents, prove why they live in the best place on the planet by going backcountry skiing, rock climbing, lake swimming and mountain biking … all in one day and all within 20 kilometres of the city.
My mountain spectre was backed onto a bank of cloud, hovering over Mulvey Basin, surrounded by a rainbow halo. His legs must have been 40 feet high and his torso was a blob of shadow topped by a miniscule head cast in nimbus luminescence.
“If you climb offwidths often enough, one of these days you’re bound to get your knee stuck and shit your pants. It’s an odds thing.”
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