Saturday, January 11, 2014. Friday, January 10, 2014. Monday, December 24, 2012. Ultimately, we overcame conditions and a climbing day was saved! Justin managed to send his first v9 along with capturing the footage below.

Monday, August 5, 2013. Climbing Ethics - Preparing for your first Lead Class. You have enough to worry about in between clipping, leg placement, and those wonderful falls. This article is to teach and prepare you for taking your first lead class, or possibly, making you take a second look at yourself and your climbing to ask yourself if you are prepared. I spoke to our three lead instructors, Dean, Doug, and Alex, to get their insights on the subject as well.

I specialize in longform journalism, humorous stories, scriptwriting, op-ed columns and ghost-writing. I also like rock climbing and have climbed some hard routes around the world. I live in western Colorado with my 102-pound dog, Brooklyn, and my 110-pound wife, Jen. And I write for National Geographic. I publish the popular climbing website Evening Sends.

We tried - this is our chronicle. Thursday, June 1, 2017. Trad Dad and the Boulderer. The glow of the Fall effort on the Rostrum in Yosemite. I was in a dark funk of winter. The hounds of middle age were nipping at my heels. I needed something to train for, to draw myself into the light. A rematch on the Original Route in Red Rock. Friday, November 25, 2016.

Belay Specs have great optics and a design that allows you easily look around the glasses to keep an eye on your environment. Belay Specs were designed to fit over most prescription and sun glasses so you can see clearly and comfortably. Bend the light, Not your Neck.

I only went out for a walk,. And finally concluded to stay out til sundown, for going out,. I found was really going in. Independence Pass, CO Keith Ladzinski.

Snow, Hyalite Canyon, Montana. The holiday season was packed with traveling, shooting, becoming an aunt and working on my new web site, which should be up and running in the next week. Thanks to the design-savvy Sacha Halenda of FormFive! November 7, 2011. Adventure Film Festival, Boulder, Colorado.

The Climbing World of Chris de Serres. April 27, 2016 in Climbing. Sorting gear with my partner-in-training. When you find the right climbing partner, it is what makes climbing something more than what it is. The experience needs to be magnified and enhanced by the person on the other end of the rope. You only have half of the crayons in the box, your partner has the other half. April 26, 2016 in Climbing.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Memorial Day Turns on Barrett Spur. Bohle dropping off of Barrett Spur into 2000 feet of perfect corn. Sunday, February 2, 2014. Applegate and Garfield Peaks - The Wombat. Sunday, January 12, 2014. Photoset from Whitsler, Joffre Lakes. Finding turns in the Joffre Lakes Basin.