Unsure what to expect, I hopped in the truck and drove to Smith Rock. I was told there would be a small group of highliners traveling across the globe for a rogue event taking over Central Oregon's...

Tower Rock, located two hours from just about anything remained virtually untouched until 2015, when a small group of NW local climbers consisting of Eric “Ivan” Linthwaite, Bill Coe, and Geoff Sil...

The air around me hung ominously, heavy with moisture. A mix of rain and snow had fallen overnight, with water taking the form dictated by the ambient temperature. “On belay?”, I asked my partner A...

I knew visiting the Ruth Gorge for the first time would be awesome, but years of reading, watching, listening, and dreaming about the Alaska Range might as well have been fiction. 

By Bill AmosIn 2011 Tyler Adams called me raving about a group of ultra-chossy towers outside of Crooked River Ranch in Central Oregon. Tyler was always psyched to climb the most rotten and unappea...

Photo: Tim Banfield By Erik Wellborn As someone who has climbed for almost 30 years I find the evolution o...

Early season ice posing potential issues somewhere in Wyoming. by Dustin FricChasing down frozen waterfall...

Everything was still, and quiet save for the clinking of ice screws against one another, the grind of crampons and tools scraping on rocks, and...

by Bill Amos(The following is adapted from the remembrance I gave at the celebration of Tyler's life 11/7/14)I've spent a lot of time over the ...