The Ultimate Climber Girl Gift Guide
Shopping for the climber girl in your life can feel harder than sending your project. If you’ve...
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Gear
Scarpa Drago XT: The Best Drago Yet
My current project has been a full-on footwork clinic—heel hooks, toe hooks, tenuous smears, and...
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Mammut Crag Sender 9.0: A Quiver of One Climbing Rope
Review of the Mammut Crag Sender Dry Rope 9.0: a single solution climbing rope for sport climbing, trad, ice, and alpine.
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What’s in my sport-climbing kit
The sport climbing gear I actually use to go to the crag.
The Evening Sends Guide to Building Your First Trad Rack
What you really need to know, and buy, to start trad climbing. Building your first trad rack made simple and easy.
Your Climbing Shoes Are Too Tight
At some point in the course of climbing’s history, the idea of equating tighter shoes with higher...
The Evening Sends Guide to Choosing Belay Devices
Running on a treadmill at a local rec center, I noticed two young teenagers set up beneath the...
The Evening Sends Guide to Choosing Climbing Harnesses
In college, I took a road trip across the country with three buddies. My friend Jack’s parents...
The Evening Sends Guide to Choosing Climbing Shoes
Climbing shoes have the distinction of being the only piece of gear that can actually help you...
Latest Reviews
The Ultimate Climber Girl Gift Guide
Shopping for the climber girl in your life can feel harder than sending your project. If you’ve...
Scarpa Drago XT: The Best Drago Yet
My current project has been a full-on footwork clinic—heel hooks, toe hooks, tenuous smears, and...
Mammut Crag Sender 9.0: A Quiver of One Climbing Rope
Review of the Mammut Crag Sender Dry Rope 9.0: a single solution climbing rope for sport climbing, trad, ice, and alpine.
Arc’teryx Konseal: the most durable and stable approach shoe yet
Arc’teryx first released the Konseal, its rugged approach shoe, back around 2018, and it was one...
Arc’teryx Skaha: Super Light and Supportive for Sport Climbing
When it comes to harnesses, it’s pretty easy to find a middle-of-the-road rig that does it all...
Petzl Neox: Better than the Grigri?
A new device for lead belaying single pitch routes.