Around this time of year, our climbing cam keychains magically turn into Christmas tree ornaments. It’s pretty cool. Do you need a shitty gift for white elephant or secret santa? Our El Crap Wag Bags would fit the bill nicely. Thanks to Outdoor Rack Builder for featuring some of our […]
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Summary November 7th, 2021 Start approach: 5:40am Start climb: 8am Top out: 3pm Start descent: 3:30pm End descent: 4:40pm Car to car: 11 hours As my time in China comes to a close, I wanted to get on this classic that my two buddies, Ryder and Dane, put up in […]
Tape gloves get shredded so fast and the crack gloves on the market right now are expensive, pretty thick, and I’m not convinced they are all that durable. I found some 1mm thick climbing shoe rubber online which I think are for the rand, and I found some 0.7mm thick […]
On a random hot weekday in early August 2019, having all of El Capitan to ourselves, Brian and I started up the first of 28 pitches of The Nose. This trip report will detail our first experience on El Cap and our strategy to climb the Nose in 3 nights. […]
Going climbing in China, but can’t speak Chinese? No worries, we’ve got you covered. We put together a list of all of the useful and even some less useful climbing jargon we could come up with, and the corresponding Chinese and PinYin translations. If you find yourself heading to China […]
Here are a couple tips we learned after a one month trip to South America. Maybe it’s just me, but I just don’t really like cities all that much. We budgeted a day and a half in Santiago at the start of the trip, but by the time we bought […]
December 31, 2016- After finishing breakfast in Pokhara, the four of us strolled to a card store. We had just finished our one week Annapurna trek and were feeling happy and accomplished. I was picking out a card to mail to my sister when it hit me. The change was immediate […]
The TLDR from my other post about monthly expenses was that I spent about $800 per month for nine months on the road. So let’s say you want to take half a year off and go on a climbing road trip. It will cost you about 5k assuming nothing catastrophic happens […]
I went on a nine month climbing road trip from July 2017 to April 2018, traveling 20,000 miles. Thought it would be interesting to keep track of as much as I could, so here we go. Gas Gas certainly seemed like the biggest expense during the trip. The tank on […]
As I began the gradually steepening incline at the entrance sign at the foot of Doi Suthep, the mountain making up Chiang Mai’s majestic western flank, I thought to myself “Only 11km? This’ll take a half hour, tops.” My hubris was quickly reigned in as the lactic acid filled my […]
Ethan and I spent 5 days in Baxter State Park, located in Northern Maine, with the hopes of climbing Katahdin via the Cilley Barber route (WI4). Sunday 1/31/16: We left Cambridge at around 4pm for the 6 hour drive up to Millinocket, ME and slept in the car at the […]
I spent a week in September with Tyler in Yosemite and we talked a lot about the type of vehicle best suited for my upcoming road trip. I was pretty set on a manual rear wheel drive Ford Ranger like Steph Davis rocked back in the day but he kept […]
A few months had gone by after the marathon and I was itching for some more suffering. My buddy Tyler who I ran the marathon with suggested we do a century. Unfortunately he left town to climb in Colorado for a couple weeks leaving me to find a new partner […]
On October 14th, 2014, I signed up for the Maine Coast Marathon scheduled for May 10th, 2015. Last time I did any sort of running was in middle school, 15 years ago. I thought by signing up, it would be a great reintroduction into running. I immediately bought some running […]
Matthew Gilbertson, Kristen LeGault, Tyler Wellman, James Huang 4:15am – 5:15pmAppalachia Trailhead to Highland CenterMts. Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Monroe, Eisenhower, Pierce21 miles10,000ft elevation gainTemperature range: -4F -> 5F On March 7th, 2015, Matthew, Kristen, Tyler, and I left Boston at midnight and drove up in two cars to Crawford Notch […]