climbing

  • Do These Things Now to Make Your Ladder Safer and Easier to Use

    Do These Things Now to Make Your Ladder Safer and Easier to Use

    It’s ladder season: It’s time to clean your gutters and soon enough, you’ll be putting up holiday lights or even taking on some snow removal. During the fall and winter, you probably spend more time on your ladder, but your high-flying home repairs should be as safe and easy to complete as possible all year…


  • Use ‘Summits’ As A Field Guide To Mountain Climbing

    Summits is a mountain-by-mountain guide to climbing. Each mountain in the Summits database has its own page with detailed climbing directions both quantitative and qualitative, making it a great way to prepare to visit a particular mountain, or even choose which mountain to climb.


  • How To Join A Climbing Gym On Your Own

    How To Join A Climbing Gym On Your Own

    Imagine yourself at a climbing wall: You head straight up, carefully grasping each handhold and foothold, a rope connecting a harness around your hips to a pulley above. The only problem: You don’t know who’s going to be on the ground holding the other end of that rope. And so, like many would-be climbers, you…


  • My Hobby Transformed Everything I Know About Setting Goals

    This goal of mine. It was pointless. Not arguably pointless, actually pointless. Undisputedly pointless. Nothing would change if I achieved it. My financial situation would remain the same. My career: the same. My relationship with loved ones: the same. Everything: the same. The only thing that would change: me. And no-one really gives a damn…