photos by Mikey Schaefer I slumped in my seat and fixated on the rocks, the projects behind us.  Mikey left an enormous first ...

Everyone wants to improve, to excel at their passion. I dream of free climbing enormous walls. For the past ten years I’ve w...

I planned on retiring.  The Yosemite Climbing Assosciation promised to award me with a Golden Piton for 10 years of being a Valley dirtbag....

The granite burned my forehead. I slumped my body further onto the wall, hoping it would support me. I cried. For the past two hours I sea...