achiang/climbing

Why write? It's a question as interesting as "why climb?". I write to report. I write to remember. I write to purge. I write to learn more about myself. I write for fun.

Anyhow, here are trip reports from some of the climbing adventures I've had, in reverse chronological order (newest first).

(what are those little red stars?)

Culp-Bossier explores the reason why I climb.
Riding the Dragon's Tail tells the tale of an unplanned bivy and other adventure.
Vegas Vignettes is a collection of memories from climbing at Red Rocks over New Year's 2002-2003.
Gunksfest 2002 tells the tale of my third consecutive Gunksfest.
Punter's Sweet chronicles my very first alpine experience.
Running Ragged was written to appease John Peterson, who claims that there aren't enough trip reports about Ragged Mountain, NH.
Vegas 2002 is a repository of several people's adventures. Check out stories from Cara Ferrier, John Peterson, Storm Heter, and myself.
Snow Red shows that there's no such thing as an "off-season".
Gunksfest 2001 describes yet another interesting John Peterson encounter.
The Dying of the Light tells the tale of a mini-epic I had with Cara Ferrier in North Carolina.
Drinking From the Fire Hydrant, written by Scary Larry and myself, tells the story of my first Grade IV, out in Red Rocks.
Realization is a reflection upon the reasons why I climb
go go go is my attempt at stream of consciousness / visual effect type writing. I wrote it after climbing a big scary chimney in Arkansas.
Revisited Assumptions refers to a weekend of sport climbing in New Mexico that convinced me to lose my traditude.
Spring Break 2001 describes, amazingly enough, what I did one spring break.
Gunksfest 2000 (mini) notes my first John Peterson Climbing Experience (tm).
Trial by Wildfire is based on my first trad lead.