Last week my family drove north from Los Angeles on State Route 99 toward Yosemite, exactly 157 years and five days after a 29-year-old John Muir set out on foot for the same destination from San ...

This is a list of climbs I've done in Yosemite Valley. By "done" I mean I've at least been on them; sometimes I never made the anchors, but most times I did. Following Karl Baba's notation, # ...

Climbing lessons may include (but aren't limited to) learning climbing lingo, knot tying, movement skill development, bouldering on the 12 ft. boulder wall, and top-roping and auto-belaying on the 40 ...

Jacopo Larcher talks about his first climbing trip to Yosemite Valley, USA with Barbara Zangerl, during which they repeated El Nino (5.13c, 800m) on El Capitan and other granite big wall climbs. When ...

With soaring temperatures dropping fast, action is rapidly heating up in the world's epicenter of big wall climbing, Yosemite. The season has been in full swing for a while with plenty of climbers ...

Joshua Tree and Yosemite, are some of the most popular ... If you're new to climbing, several local companies offer climbing ...

A few years ago, I hiked 180 miles of the 211+ mile John Muir Trail (JMT) with my 11 year old son. The JMT runs through the Eastern Sierra mountains in California, starting from Yosemite Valley to ...

Guy McCarthy Oct 25, 2022 Oct 25, 2022 Updated Oct 27, 2022 An 8-year-old boy from Colorado Springs is climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park this week and, if he’s successful ...