Category: The Schoolhouse

Even with the most beautiful self-built van kitchen, it’s difficult for the foodiest of foodies to maintain our eating standards while on the road. Smaller cooking and storage spaces, time constraints, and remote campsites far from groceries can put a damper on things. The first fall I spent in my trailer, I found a pick-me-up…

Endurance, or the ability to climb for long periods of time without tiring out, is a key skill for all climbers–even if you generally stay away from taller routes. Retaining your strength and technique until the end of a long session will help you with any kind of climbing, regardless of whether you favor bouldering,…

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…