Tag Archives: climbing
Mental Training: In Search of a Free Mind
In a sport like climbing, so dependent on mental fortitude, where is all the information on training the mind? I find it crazy how many resources there are about fingerboarding and campus workouts, but so few on how to deal with fear and the ego? Am I alone with these feelings of negative self-worth in […]
Simply Read: How the Simple Things Can Be the Most Powerful
Over the past 6 weeks I’ve done a lot of soul-searching. It sounds so cliche, and has been written about time and time again. From A Walk in the Woods to Wild, the theme of pursuing new challenges with self-reflection is enough to makes some of us want to vomit in our mouths. But for […]
China Doll Dreams Come True
Launching into the upper crux of my long-term project, my sympathetic nervous system took over. My mouth was cotton and my heart was racing. It was key to get the first finger-lock just right, if not I’d slip out before I had a chance to get pumped. I wiggled my right middle and ring fingers […]
Wake Up Fall
My right index finger is slipping out of its sandy lock- all I have to do to get through the crux is hike my right foot up on a good hold on the arete. I haphazardly pop my right foot up. Miraculously, it’s on the hold! But as I attempt to rock my weight onto […]
First Ascents and Capsized Canoes on the Green River…
I’m soaking wet and shivering, desperately hanging on to the side of our tipped canoe as the river pushes us along. One day I’ll look back on this moment and laugh, I thought. But for now, this really sucks. Our boat was riding low. We were a team of six with three canoes, setting out […]
Frozen: Remote Places and Cold Spaces
“Let it go! The cold never bothered me anyway!!!” My friend Elizabeth and I sang along with Idina Menzel at the top of our lungs from our rent-a-car, feeling like teenage girls about to go out on the town. But instead, the two of us- far from being teens and far from home- were in […]
Musta Been High
Despite the passing of Amendment 64 which legalized marijuana here in Colorado, Musta Been High refers to a rock climb- not the green stuff. Some might say I Musta Been High to climb this route, but I did not take advantage of our local Cannabis dispensaries. Musta Been High is a traditional climb in Eldorado Canyon […]
Heather Weidner 