 Entourage #40 - July 2010
DAMON CORSO: Like so many other adventure seekers, moving to California in 2003 marked a pivotal change in Damon Corso’s life. It was there that he got into climbing at Stoney Point, making weekly trips with his uncle. Ever since, he’s been living the life in Santa Monica, where he snowboards, surfs, skimboards, and, of course, climbs. ARNOLD BRAKER: Arnold Braker is a man with many layers. He can laugh at jokes about Casimir effects or long division, but also at a picture of a fat person falling on his face from failblog.org. To say he is smart is an understatement.
 Entourage #38 - May 2010
PAIGE CLAASSEN - Paige Claassen is not new to the climbing scene. The 19-yearold veteran has been climbing for 10 years and crushing for nearly as long. She’s onsighted 5.13b (Flour Power, Red River Gorge, Kentucky), sent 5.14a (Zulu, Rifle, Colorado), and made the podium in the Sport Climbing Series National Championships for the last four years. Her feature, Running with the Bulls (p. 48), relays her road trip experience as she tries to escape Boulder’s harsh winter.
 ENTOURAGE - #36 > FEBRUARY/MARCH 2009
SARAH GARLICK - With a graduate degree in structural geology/tectonics from the University of Wyoming, Sarah Garlick, 30, possesses stone knowledge on a different level than your average rock jock. Garlick was exposed to climbing early, via her uncle, but her litho-love crystallized when she moved from North Carolina to Rhode Island for college. KYLE GEORGE - Kyle George, a surfer, visited the land of sheep and Kiwis five years ago and, he says, was gunning to get back ever since. He finally returned in winter 2009 (the NZ summer), spending five months with his wife, Carrie Cooper and their daughter Ava cruising NZ in a 27-year-old pop-top van (check out their feature on page 40 of UC #36).
 ENTOURAGE - #35 > DECEMBER 2009
AMANDA FOX - A swimmer in high school, Fox abandoned the butterfly stroke when she went to college at Appalachian State, located fortuitously in the Southeastern climbing hotspot known as Boone. There she picked up a nasty climbing habit.CHRIS VAN LEUVEN - Climbing whenever he wants: check. Avoiding the 9-to-5 cube life: done. Living rent-free (and not out of mom’s basement): check. Freelance writer and website designer CVL has the travelin’ life dialed. Along with sleeping under the stars with his dog every night, the 32-year-old California native writes for Climbing and Carbondale, Colorado’s Sopris Sun.
 ENTOURAGE - #34 > NOVEMBER 2009
ROB PIZEM - "If I see something beautiful, I want to figure it out and climb it, whatever it takes," says Rob "The Piz" Pizem, 33, about aesthetic routes. Pizem, originally from Kirtland, Ohio, began climbing 15 years ago on a toprope outside Cleveland and, as the saying goes, was immediately hooked. MATT WILDER - As an upstanding member of the climbing community, the 30-year-old Matt Wilder - a Weston, Connecticut, native - has authored a bouldering guidebook to Hueco Tanks, Texas, and nabbed FAs in Boulder Canyon, super-highballs in Bishop, and the big first free ascents in Yosemite.
 ENTOURAGE - #33 > OCTOBER 2009
JONATHAN SIEGRIST - Jonathan Siegrist, our coverboy, is one of those guys who prove that being really good at something and being really nice aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, Siegrist is skilled in several arenas. TOMÁS DONOSO - Currently living in Connecticut, Donoso hails from Santiago, Chile, and has spent some time in Beantown, too, while attending Boston College and studying psychology and history. Before becoming a climbing photog, the 29 year old's work led him to Honduras.
 ENTOURAGE - #31 > AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2009
Andrew Tower - "My favorite font is called Andy . . . not many computers have it," says Andrew Tower, 25, who wrote about the Vegas climber Heather Robinson, for Unearthed, in issue #31. "Not only does it share my name, but it also isn't boring - neurotic writers at their finest." John Dickey - The photographer John Dickey, aka Johnny Dangerous, has spent 21 of his 34 years climbing. The magic began in his Boy Scout days, in the hill country of central Texas. "You know the drill," Dickey says: "steal mom's clothesline and get sketchy." By this time, Dickey was already cultivating his photography skills, after his father put a camera in his hands at age 4 and dubbed him the official family-trip photographer.
 ENTOURAGE - #30 > PHOTO ANNUAL 2009
ANDREW BURR - Based in the Mormon/outdoor-enthusiast stronghold of Salt Lake City, Utah, our Senior Contributing Photographer Andrew Burr (andrewburr.com) is always on the move. One week, he’s at home with his wife Laurel and their daughter Kaia, the next, he’s dangling from a desert spire, or, as he did for his photo feature “Fry Days” (p. 38), trekking for hours through Utah’s desolate desert canyons in search of unclimbed rock; DAN LUBBERS - Dan Lubbers (danlubbers.com), whose shots appear in Visual (p. 26) and “The Dark Side” (p. 48), took to climbing in 2001. In 2006, during a bouldering trip, injuries from a 2003 car accident flared up, forcing a two-year climbing hiatus.
 ENTOURAGE - #29 > MAY 2009
Brian Solano - “After day one, I was immediately hooked and knew climbing would always be a significant part of my life”; Melissa Strong - We needed a reliable source that would help us further understand what’s going on over there in our desert oasis; Damon Corso - “Teamwork. We may not have team colors, raging fans, or a stadium to play every game at, but I’ll tell you what — we are all on the same team” Andy Mann - Andy has done it again. This always psyched dude is committed to being in the right place at the right time and bringing home the killer imagery
 ENTOURAGE - #27 > FEBRUARY/MARCH 2009
DAMON CORSO - In Ireland, during the summer of 2007, I lost a best friend, a brother, and a mentor, Michael Reardon; CHRISTINA PILO - I wish I could just climb for a living. I envy those who are living that life; ROB TURAN - Rob has been a National Park Ranger since 1983; ANDREW KORNYLAK - Andrew grew up in a small Midwestern town in Ohio and is a self-taught photographer; Tim Kemple - I cannot lie and say I've rapped since 85 / I didn't battle in the parks when the art of b-boyin' was alive ...
 ENTOURAGE - #26 > DECEMBER 2008/JANUARY 2009
Andy Mann - Andy’s a Colorado boy. “What makes Colorado so special is that the climbing here is endless. Andrew Burr - The beginnings: Born on a planet far, far away, Kal-El was rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father. Seth Robinson - Seth has been living in the urban sprawl of Las Vegas for nine years now. Phillip Benningfield - Phillip is the author of four bouldering guides to the “best damn state in the union, Colorado!” Mike Brumbaugh - Mike lives in Vail, CO with his wife Jennifer where he owns a ski and bike shop, Venture Sports.
 ENTOURAGE - #25 > October/November 2008
John Evans - John Evans’ (a.k.a. J.E.) 18-year career in the climbing industry has given him great insight into photographing and protecting the vertical environment; Nathan Cando - Nathan lives in Canmore, Alberta (Boulder North, or the “real” center of the universe), where he works as a landscape contractor for six months of the year; Andy Outis - Andy was once a promising young sport climber who subsisted on a diet of brown rice and raw oats (back when that type of thing was acceptable)
 ENTOURAGE - #24 > August/September 2008
Brian Solano - You know Brian, THE Brian, our Brian, this Brian who lives out in the field more than children of the corn; Emmanuel Aguirre - He says he got the “photo virus” when he was 17, after meeting photographer Robert Doisneau; Damon Corso - Damo wants to set things straight: “Aren’t ya’ll sick of me YET? Well, just so you know, I do other things besides take sick photos — I rock climb"; Ryan Wedemeyer - A fan of other photographers, Ryan has worked with Tim Kemple, Keith Ladinski, Corey Rich and Snow photographer Will Wissman.
 ENTOURAGE - #11 - June/July 2006
Robert Thoren - Sometimes Robert picks up a camera and points it. Every once in a while Robert climbs a rock. Though rarely does he reach the top; Aaron Black - He enjoys running the gamut of climbing styles from boulders to big wall free routes; Jared McMillen - Contributor Jared McMillen's nomadic nature lead him to write about and photograph some of the most remote areas of the West and those who frequent them; Abbey Smith - Abbey grew up on the plains. Abbey hates the smell of cow poop. Abbey's powers come from ice cream. In some states Abbey is illegal.
 ENTOURAGE - #23 > JUNE/JULY 2008
Zach Orenczak - When not ducking the law with impromptu tours of Camp Four on a commandeered golf cart; Abbey Smith - These days, Contributing Editor Abbey Smith seems to be lost in a perpetual fantasy world. Since the turn of the year, she has spent no more than two weeks in her bed in Boulder, CO; Mike Moelter - A fixture on the Boulder climbing scene, He has lived there for 11 years, having grown up on the South Side of Chicago and battling routinely with MC’s such as Common.
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