Happy New Year, climbing buddies! Hope you’ve all made rational and attainable new year’s climbing resolutions.
Climber Christmas Carols, part 1
Happy holidays to all my awesome readers! Hope you get some wall time during the winter break. I’m off next week, but will be back with more fun climbing comics in the new year!
Crushing Carols
Hang in there, fellow gym rats. Only a couple more days of climbing to the soft sounds of Christmas crooning being piped through the speakers.
Callous
I just want to say… I’m super proud of my gnarly toe calluses.
Don't Sweat It
My hands start sweating like Niagara Falls if I even THINK about climbing. Meanwhile…
New Route Vultures
I love watching setters create new routes… and then constantly pestering them about what grade they’re going to be.
Thanks to Planet Rock setter Bronson Cauthon for the idea!
The Mountains Are Calling
Hint: It’s flat.
Old Friends
Climb at a gym long enough, and you’ll start to have very personal relationships with individual holds.
Hangboring
Hangboarding! Something we should all definitely do but are also definitely not going to do!
A Climber's Halloween
Everyone have their climbing-themed Halloween costume ready?
I’ve never actually climbed offwidths…
….and I probably never will.
O'erperch These Wals
Sorry I haven’t updated for a while. I was busy visiting the American Shakespeare Center, which has a great balcony.
Climbers. We’re all secretly climbing things in our heads.
Cloudy (With a Chance of Chalk)
I absolutely don’t have a chalk problem.
Hi, Gravity
High gravity days. We all have them.
Fingerprints
This happens to all of us, right?
Belaytionship
I love my climbing partner. Just not like THAT.
Chalk Up
You can never have enough chalk.
Going For It
I'm not going for it.
Rest Day
WHAT IS THIS "REST" THAT YOU SPEAK OF?
Regional Dialects
When I visited family in Singapore a year or so ago and decided to tour the local gyms, I discovered that the language of "generic bouldering encouragement" is not, in fact, universal.
I felt so provincial with my pedestrian "COME ON!" shouts....
Noobris
I always try to be welcoming and non-judgemental when I see new climbers in rental gear, because I remember how nervous I was when I started climbing and how encouraging the gym regulars were to me. HAVING SAID THAT... there are exceptions.
Seriously, dude-bros... don't try to out-climb the girls.