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2009 Photo Annual
Cover: Dolomites heaven — Mauro Doragati climbs Fotuk (5.12b), Cinque Torri, Italy. Photo: Damon Corso /petrala.com
INSTACRAGS - Lower Mill Creek Canyon, in Utah's La Sal Mountains; DREAMTIME - A visual tour of Switzerland's most fabled blocks; WIDE LOADS - Tape up your hands, fists, forearms, and ankles; IN CIMA DELLO STIVALE - From Valle d'Aosta, to Varazze, to the Dolomites, to Val di Mello |
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 Photo Annual 2009 - 276
INSTACRAGS - Lower Mill Creek Canyon, in Utah's La Sal Mountains , might be the Southwest's last bastion of undiluted adventure climbing; DREAMTIME - A visual tour of Switzerland's most fabled blocks; WIDE LOADS - Tape up your hands, fists, forearms, and ankles, cinch up the jeans and high-top boots, and rack up the monster pro; IN CIMA DELLO STIVALE - From Valle d'Aosta, to Varazze, to the Dolomites, to Val di Mello  May 2009 - 275
COCHISE WHISPERS - A domeland wilderness in the Arizona desert that was once a hideout for the Chiricahua Apache; CATAVINA OR BUST - No, it’s not Rocklands, but the endless granite boulder fields of Baja, Mexico; PHOBOPHOBIA - Fear is a universal part of climbing; TOWER TO THE PEOPLE - A one-day, five-tower Moab link-up even a coupla’ working joes can pull off  2009 Gear Guide - 274
Gear Beta from five equipment-punishing pros - MAJKA BURHARDT, MICAH DASH, ALEX HONNOLD, BETH RODDEN, JIM SHIMBERG; Gear Categories - Belay Devices, Boots, Carabiners, Crashpads, Harnesses, Headlamps, Helmets, Ice Gear, Protection, Rock Shoes, Ropes, Basecamp; Perspective - Tom Frost: big-wall pioneer, gear inventor, photographer; Oakdale, California  March 2009 - 273
GALLERY - Phalanx of Will, monster dyno whipper, and Hebrides trad gnar; PLANET X - The science of high-end headpointing; NOBODY’S FOOL - the hyper-talented and complex Alex Honnold; GET SHORTY! - Celebrating the oft-overlooked (but long-relevant) ropedbouldering genre  January 2009 - 272
2008 GOLDEN PITON AWARDS - Recognizing 2008's top achievers; HIDDEN TREASURE - The Obed - Tennessee's premier sport crag; SANDBLASTED - The multi-pitch walls of the Taghia Gorge, Morocco; THE STYLE THAT COUNTS - The life, climbs, and artistic vision of Andy Parkin; 8 CONFESSIONS OF A CLIMBING MOM - The intersection of motherhood and climbing  December 2008 - 271
GALLERY - Hard-5.13 headpointing, seaside (and high-country) highballing, roof-crack madness, and Garhwal splendor; COUNTRY STYLE - Take a trad tour with two American hardwomen in South Africa; MAINE LINERS - Mark Synnott and Jared Ogden search, in a 27-foot sloop, for sea cliffs along austere Downeast Maine; ZILLERTAL 2.1 - Deep in the Austrian Tyrol there's a granite wonderland with blocs, clip-ups, cracks, and walls  October 2008 - 270
THE NOIR OF THALAY SAGAR - A fateful expedition to the Garhwal Himalaya; SPINDRIFT MEMORIES - Three men and 32 days on Baffin Island’s Walker Citadel; LOSING THE PLOT - Journal entries and images from the "Alaskistan 2007"; TRAPPED! - Two Japanese climbers, fallen 165 feet into a crevasse on Latok IV, fight to escape their icy crypt  September 2008 - 269
FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE - Tune up your huevos and get ready for a second dose of Ibex; HALF THE STORY - Adieu, Hueco. Sayonara, Bishop. The real bouldering explosion centers on a hillside in Turkey; AMERICAN MEATBALLS - Two psyched yankees visit Bohuslän, Sweden, home to the world’s best trad cragging; ANOTHER ONE DRIVES THE BUS - Why Boulder, Colorado, climbers have been driving the big, yellow bus for more than a quarter century  August 2008 - 268
THE BIG D - How Rifle Mountain Park, Colorado, came to be the land of 5.13d; PRETTY GNEISS - The roadside crags of Colorado’s Clear Creek Canyon seem to totter more than tower; PLASTIC PRINCE - Straight outta the “Plastic Crucible” of board-flat Belgium comes Nico Favresse; IN SEARCH OF EL CHUPACABRA - Senior Contributing Editor Craig Luebben visits limestone-rich Puerto Rico  July 2008 - 267
GALLERY - Pawtuckaway granite — sweet boulders and bizzled trad; FANTASYLAND - Veteran alpinist and trash-talker Kelly Cordes confronts his biggest hurdle yet; THE ORIGINAL SPRAYLORD - How did Albert Smith, a pudgy Englishman with only Mont Blanc to his credit, launch the sport of mountaineering 130 years ago?; A GRAND IS NOT ENOUGH - Ten peaks, 12,000 feet of vertical gain, crumbly rock, and restless weather in the Tetons  266 - 2008 Photo Annual
PHOTO GALLERIES - From 5.13 cracks, to a Cuban castle, to a Tasmanian sea stack, to a Chinese arch, we bring you 2008’s best photography. PLUS: PIEDRAS ESCONDIDAS - an amazing “Stone Forest” at 15,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes; ROCK DREAMERS - Landscapes of spirit and stone, in the words of seven climbing lifers; CRACK ADDICTION - From seams to bomb-bay; DAR AL-SALAM -The valley of Wadi Rum, Jordan; STONE MONKEYS - Yosemite’s Stone Monkeys — modern-day Stonemasters  April 2008 - 265
GALLERY - Simon Carter takes you on a tour of J-Tree; LEGENDS OF THE FALL - England’s E9 and E10 headpoint pioneers; THE BLACK DOG - The dark side of the climbing equation, as revealed through five first-person essays; THE CONTRARIAN - “Fly’n” Brian McCray is one of our sport’s best all-arounders, over the last 20 years amassing a body of climbs unparalleled in his generation  February 2008 - 264
2007 GOLDEN PITON AWARDS - The best of Alpine, Traditional, Sport, Bouldering, Solo, Rookie of the Year, and Humanitarian of the Year; THE SPAIN DIARIES - Three young Yankees cut loose in Iberia's new-school sport heaven; ASSUME NOTHING - Chile's Valle Cochamo - the Yosemite of South America; GET LOST! - Fremont Canyon, a granite craggers' paradise; TROUT CREEK - Slammer hands, sickly tips, mini-roofs, and velvet corners in Oregon  January 2008 - 263
VERTICAL ETHIOPIA — Infinite, crumbling spires of northern Ethiopia; THE LINE OF CONTROL — Kashmir is known for its conflict, sure . . . between India and Pakistan; WYOMING WIND — Wild, remote, monster granite of the Wind River Range; NECESSARY EVOLUTION — Clean climbing is back, stronger than ever, and it's high time we think before we drill, says Sonnie Trotter  December 2007 - 262
DUMBY DAVE - We've all heard of Rhapsody, the world's first E11 - a trad 5.14c R/X in Scotland; GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH - Cascades alpine multi-pitch; I, BOULDERER - Yosemite's proudest blocs yet; BLANK CHECK - the mile-high Swiss Wall of Death |
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