Monday By Mateo: Bouldering Etiquette 101
If you’re not going to brush your teeth (hey, we’ve all been there—road-trip yuckmouth is just part of the deal) then you at least need to brush the holds. “Why?”...
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Monday By Mateo: Lost
If we’ve learned one thing in our travels, it’s that dogs are terrible at reading guidebooks—the worst. They’ll get you lost every time. Total chaos. Total confusion. Fully unreliable. Especially...
Monday by Mateo: Tuolumne
High in Yosemite National Park is a magic land of domes, lakes, glacial tarns, plateaus, and forests—the climber’s wonderland of Tuolumne Meadows. A huge draw here is the East Face...
Monday by Mateo: Mom Van Life
OK, sure, it’s not the ubiquitous tricked-out $60,000 Sprinter van, but this repurposed soccer-mom van still gets the job done. I mean, really, how much do you need? Somewhere to...
Monday by Mateo: The Crimp
“It’s hard out here for a crimp,” someone once rapped, or perhaps the word was “pimp”? We forget…. In any case, the crimp position is so key and specific to...
Monday by Mateo: The Ouray Ice Festival
If you’ve never watched a mixed/ice climbing competition, you should. “But it sounds about as exciting as filing my taxes!” you protest. “They’re just flailing those tools around trying to...
Monday By Mateo: The American Southwest
Americans tend to take the scope and grandeur of the Southwest desert for granted—the red rocks, buttes, mesas, towers, and river-etched sandstone canyons have been imprinted on us by countless...
Monday By Mateo: The Ouray Ice Park
Not all things manmade are automatically bad. Take the Ouray Ice Park aka the Uncompaghre River Gorge above Ouray, Colorado. Taking advantage of Ouray’s high elevation (7,800 feet) and steep,...