Category: The Schoolhouse

Like many sports, climbing bestows various advantages and disadvantages upon every body type. We humans are empathetic and naturally social creatures, so we can often (at least vaguely) imagine what it might be like to live in someone else’s body. As an extremely short athlete, though, I often find that it takes a special kind…

We’re all aware that vegan cooking gets a bad rap. It’s famously called bougie and expensive, difficult to cook, and deficient in protein and iron. It doesn’t have to be this way, though–even (perhaps especially) in the outdoors. Ever since my first climbing trip, I’ve been camp cooking for huge groups of people and making…

One of the biggest myths I’ve encountered in the climbing world is thus: that only someone very special can do a pull-up. You have to be an athlete, you have to be born a certain gender, you have to have a certain strength-to-weight ratio—I’ve heard it all. None of it is true. Sure, there are…