Climbing at Quincy Quarries
One reason we moved to Boston was to be closer to the things we like to do. Yes, the Sierras are great, but at a minimum of 3 hours driving time from the SF Bay Area multiplied by the screaming infant...
View ArticlePeregrine Falcons at Russell Crag
Rock Climbing is my major leisure time activity. Given a free weekend, that is what I want to spend my time doing. One thing that excited me about moving back east was the quantity of good, climbable...
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Foot placement in crack climbing
There are two main forms of rock climbing. The most popular is face climbing. The climber makes upward progress for the most by pulling downward on small ledges in the rock with their hands, and...
View ArticleTrad climbing…at Rumney
Yes, Rumney. That bastion of sport climbyness, where even the cracks are bolted. Why, you may ask, did I want to trad climb at Rumney? The short answer was, I didn’t. I wanted to trad climb, and my...
View ArticleStart of a Climbing Resume
I was looking at a course for climbing guides and it said you needed a climbing resume. I decided I would try to list all of the climbs I had ever done. Here it is. It is not complete. If you’ve done...
View ArticleBack to Cannon
If you plan on climbing at Cannon cliff, try to find a climb other than Moby Grape. When you exit the parking lot at the base of Cannon Cliff, you will see a box on right hand side where you are...
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Basic Body Position for Rock Climbing
The first rule of climbing is to climb on straight arms. Compare these two pictures. The climber in the first picture is supporting his weight on his skeleton. In both pictures, the climbers are...
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Deadpoint
When you throw something straight up in the air, there is a point where it has no movement at all. Before this point, it is rising, after this point it is falling. But for an instant, it is floating....
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Fear
Climbers on The Nose of El Capitan “I don’t want to do it. I wouldn’t enjoy it.” I knew what he meant, probably better than he did himself. I think I knew that this would happen, or at least strongly...
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Mount Chocorua
When I was a kid, I fell in love with the book “Look to the Mountain” about settlers in Middle New Hampshire. The Mountain in the title is Chocorua. This weekend I got to meet her in person; on May...
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