A weird thing happens when you set foot on Pennsylvania’s Donut Hole Trail: it tends to disappear just like the treat it’s named after. But, if you’re lucky enough to have a keen sense of direction and pathfinding skills and you don’t mind a bit of bushwhacking, you’d be hard pressed to find a more [...]

 
Wierdly enough, it was Jon Krakauer’s seminal book, Into Thin Air, that made me want to start climbing. It figures that it would take a retelling of a horrible disaster to make me want to take up what some see as a semi-dangerous fringe sport.
That said, I’ve been rather obsessed with Everest, the culture and [...]

Fearing a New Paltz rainout this past weekend, Tom and I, who had been talking about heading up to the Gunks for a few weeks, decided to switch things up and head to the great state of … Maryland? We’d heard rumors of the appropriately named Rocks State Park from a friend at our climbing [...]

I’ll say this first: I’ve always been a big fan of Evolv. Aside from the quality climbing shoes they produce, the company’s environmental stance and - from what I’ve been told - excellent resoles via Yosemite Bum set the bar pretty high. Being the miser that I am, I was looking for a cheap-o pair [...]

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My wife and I kicked off Fourth of July with a hike through Indian Rock Park in Springfield, PA, looking for our first ever geocache. We stumbled through the loose leaves and dirt to a nice path running along the Darby Creek with our eyes upward for the park’s namesake.
After finding what looked [...]

The route list for Birdsboro, home of some of the hold-snappingist sport climbing in all of Pennsylvania, was updated earlier in the month. It looks like a handful of new climbs were added to the Giant Wall, but the nifty new feature is the number in parentheses after each climb name that indicates the number of [...]

I mean, I really appreciate you watering my lawn for me because I really hate having to drag the hose around from behind my house, but this is just getting ridiculous. From what I read at Gunks.com, New Paltz has gotten something like 2.5 inches of rain in the last two days. I know they [...]

 
I don’t know how I missed this back in April, but apparently the guys at Sender Films are taking their very excellent film First Ascent and turning it into a series on the National Geographic Channel. There haven’t been any solid dates announced for the show’s premier, and, strangely, it looks like the show will be [...]

Hey, fellow climbers, friends, family, and Internet interlopers. 
Thanks for stopping by. Tom, Clay, Dave, and I started this site to keep track of our climbing trips, share PA climbing beta, post gear reviews, stories, and regale you with our patented brand of ridiculousness. We’re still tweaking the site a bit - without Clay’s input, since [...]