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Tower Town

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...
Tribe

Tyler Adams 1986-2014

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 ...
climbing

Mt. Thielsen East Face

By Tyler AdamsMt. Thielsen was Steve Elder's idea. Steve is a 56 year old kiwi who has been living in Oregon the past 25 years. He is the defin...
climbing

Winter Climbing Roundup

Can't stop Dustin! Climbing Hidden Falls in Eastern Oregon's Owyhee Mountains  Despite the strange weather...
Chris Kalman

Cochamo Update

We just got an e-mail and photos from Chris Kalman who's down in Cochamo, Chile right now where he just finished putting up a big new route with Austin Siadak and Florian Haenel:Highlights of the r...
ice

Cave Ice

This isn't something that you see everyday. Dustin Fric sent us this message and some sweet photos:Basically the story is about ten years ago a farmer lost his cow and found this pit. The BLM sent ...
Alaska

More Alaska Range Sending from the Tribe

We just received these photos from Eric Dacus of his and Jon Jugenheimer's ascent of Freezy Nuts on London Tower in the Ruth Gorge. Eric says:The salopette I bought last fall worked great. I was re...