URBAN CLIMBER MAGAZINE

Entourage #45 - December/January 2011
ADAM PETERS: The most memorable thing about Adam Peters, as he’ll tell you, isn’t anything about him. In fact, most people are quicker to remember his pigeon-footed “Chilean alpine rescue dog,” Samantha. JACKIE HUEFTLE: Like many young climbers without a clear direction in life besides climbing more, Jackie Hueftle utilized the two-semesters-on-one-semester-off college plan.

Entourage #44 - November 2010
NEELY QUINN - As a "really stressed out vegetarian" with depression, asthma, and blindness in one eye in her early 20s, Neely Quinn had to figure out how to heal herself, since doctors were no help. Diet and supplements changed her life, and she says she wanted “to tell the world about the role food plays in our health.” ARMIN BUCHROITHNER - “Everyone's priorities suddenly change when they approach 30,” Armin Buchroithner says of the difficulty in finding friends to go with him to Norway, a destination he writes about in “Scandinavian Summer” on page 36.

Entourage #43 - October 2010
ANDY MANN - Even if you don't know Boulder-based Andy Mann, chances are you know exactly who Andy Mann is. As Urban Climber’s Senior Contributing Photographer and with seven UC covers under his belt, Mann is the go-to guy for climbing photography. STEVE MAISCH - If anyone is looking to hire a climber with a Ph.D. in economics, then Steve Maisch, 38, is your guy. He doesn’t expect a huge salary, but he does require plenty of time off to climb all across the globe. His first foray into climbing was in 1992 when a friend took him to Donner Summit, Lake Tahoe, California.

Entourage #41 - August 2010
MELISSA STRONG: Though she moved to Estes Park, Colorado 14 years ago, Melissa Strong had never been on rock until 2001. “I felt as though I needed to make a few changes in my life,” the Massachusetts native says. COLETTE MCINERNEY: “I guess I just had no fear in the beginning,” says Colette McInerney, 28, of the start she got climbing in the Gunks and around New York during her freshman year of college. “I remember barely clawing my way up some V2 highball my first year of climbing when that was my max ability.”

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.

ENTOURAGE - #22 > APRIL/MAY 2008
Shannon Moore - Though not to be confused with the professional wrestler, Shannon Moore still lays the smack down on anything she puts her mind to; John Vallejo was the first and only lawyer to be sworn in by Justice William M. Wunderlich, the U.S. District Court Magistrate in Yosemite National Park; Craig Copelin - Craig has been climbing longer than most UCMAG readers have been alive. Back in the 80s, Craig was a part of the climbing generation that was ready to pull on anything at anytime; Matt Burbach - Matt has been involved in the climbing community for over a decade, and not just as a climber; Andy Mann - In April of 2006, Chuck Fryberger called me and said that a guy by the name of Andy Mann was interested in coming to South Africa with us to assist

ENTOURAGE - #20 > FEBRUARY/MARCH 2008
Kevin Lange - He spends as much time as possible chasing sunsets and partaking of the world outside concrete walls; Luke Laeser - Most days, "Laeserguns" is balancing responsibilities as the Online Editor for Climbing.com in Chattanooga, TN, with making snacks before a bouldering session with his seventeen-month-old son; Melissa Strong - Like her subjects in this issue of UC, she is also becoming a “Woman of Hueco”; Robert Miramontes - Rob has been a So Cal “local” boulderer for nearly 20 years and is responsible for putting up hundreds of problems in the region; Russ Clune - He has pulled in the Gunks and surrounding environs since he was 18 years old — trad climbing, bouldering, soloing, and generally going up.

ENTOURAGE - #21 > FEBRUARY/MARCH
Sonnie Trotter - A professional climbing dirtbag, strings together a small income through freelance writing and photography, as well “under the table” Thai massage; John Dickey - He likes rocks, big and small, waves just overhead, sharks with big teeth, and kittens; Cody Roth - He says that meeting Lance Hadfield (world class climber, routesetter and trainer) was a major turning point in his life

ENTOURAGE - #19 > OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2007
Levente Pinter - Based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he spends most of the year rock climbing and honing his photography skills full time; Adi Carter - She is a yoga & Pilates instructor who draws from her background in climbing, surfing, snowboarding and biking to constantly take the practice of yoga to new and unusual places; Abbey Smith - As an editor for elephant journal, she moonlights as a full time climber, insomniac, Americano addict, cruiser bike rider, and eco-warrior; Jason Kehl - When he isn't out fighting the noble cause of disproving the idea that only the bad guy wears black, he is usually found climbing on really, really tall boulders around the world or working on new designs for his clothing company CryptoChild

ENTOURAGE - #18 > AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2007
Timothy Kemple - To have images of someone posing on a route they have not completed, no matter the difficulty, does nothing to support first ascentionists, the general climbing community, or motivate others to share in the adventure of getting to the top –the tops of boulders, cliffs, and mountains; Andrew Zalewski - After serving a long traditional climbing apprenticeship (which included a few first ascents in the long-thought climbed-out Gunks), Andrew turned his attention toward bouldering and the multitude of stellar unclimbed lines the Gunks has to offer; Justin Roth - From his first moves on plastic in the Lycra days, to last weekend at the Red River Gorge, climbing has been a part of Justin Roth’s life for over 15 years; Jackie Hueftle - She is motivated and dedicated female routesetter. she tries hard to climb all the time.

ENTOURAGE - #17 > JUNE/JULY 2007
Adrien Robert [sAne.] - Adrien's creativity stems from an innate love for traveling, an obsessive curiosity, and a drive to attain fluency in communicating his fascinations; Mick Ryan - He works as the Editor at the online climbing magazine, UKClimbing.com and is involved with several guidebook projects with both Wolverine Publishing in the US and Rockfax in the UK; Matt Samet - Sometimes dreams of V16 crimp caves, 5.14+ death solos, and 20,000-foot ice walls reify at the hands of one quietly inspired rock god

ENTOURAGE - #16 >APRIL/MAY 2007
Mike von Wahlde - If he had spare time, he'd paint you several new paintings, develop some more photos, cook you dinner, write you a story and bring you to his favorite skate and surf spots, all on the way back from the crag he just showed you for the first time; Michael Reardon - Finding Michael Reardon is easy, following him and surviving is near impossible; Sasha Turrentine - What we need is to slow down - to reconnect ourselves with nature and pay close attention to our roots and our evolution, as individuals and as human beings; CS Danielson - Traversing across the US and a few other continents for the last decade has meant being a Caarhart clad contractor, thesis-writing on 19th Century philosophy and religion, falling off surfboards, ski slopes, and boulders, and forever fiddling with the idea of being an academic or journalist or political researcher

ENTOURAGE - #15 > FEBRUARY/MARCH 2007
John Roark - John likes long walks on the beach, starry nights, and mostly making fun of 'boulderer'...though he probably has more hours a few feet off the ground than anywhere else; Jacquelyn Chiddo - She has been climbing and training looking forward to her forthcoming migration to El Paso, Texas to enjoy the best that Hueco Tanks has to offer; Chris Brown - Equally adept behind the camera or on the sharp end, Chris always keeps busy at the crag; Clark Shelk - Aside from his part time gig ranting about the NBA, Clark is the man behind Revolution

ENTOURAGE - #14 > DECEMBER 2006/JANUARY 2007
Dan Brayack - Four years ago, he purchased his first "real" camera, and began to extend his creative sense toward climbing and bouldering photography; Chris Sexton - Chris taught high school math in Los Angeles for five years, spending seasons off at J- Tree, Tuolumne Meadows and Smith Rock; Andrew Mann - Writing music and establishing boulder problems are the driving forces in Andy's life; Brian Solano - An accomplished freelance photographer and film producer based in Boulder, Colorado; Dawn Kish - photography is all about the people, the emotions and the honor of the photographic moment; Chuck Fryberger - He's a member of the Scarpa, Cloudveil, and Black Diamond athlete teams, and gets out whenever his train-wreck of a schedule lets him

ENTOURAGE - #13 > OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2006
The Access Fund - Conceived on a barstool in the late 1980s over whiskey, cocktail napkins, and pleather imprints on the back of thighs; Bennett Barthelemy - Bennett describes himself as a 'Cat Herder-Climber'; Zach Orenczak and Rachael Lynn - These two outlaws run Extreme Angles Publishing from the remote outpost of Laramie, Wyoming; Michael Reardon - With enough energy to make the Energizer Bunny cringe, Michael regularly solos up to 10,000 feet per day; Phillip Benningfield - An author of two Colorado statewide bouldering guides, a mountain biking guide, as well as the author of a novel on teenage suicide; Damon Corso - We don't have much to say about "Damo" except that he's the man

ENTOURAGE - #12 > AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2006
Scott Burr - When he's not scouting first ascents on northeast Ohio's crumbling sandstone, he's writing fiction; Jason Kehl - The Maryland native who study painting, sculpture and eventually photography, quickly realized the "norm life" was not for him; Jesse Arneson - A hobby photographer, Jesse's been snagging climbing lifestyle shots on numerous trips; Andreas Mölk - He had his first experience on rock in the mid 90's when Gerhard Hörhager took him out to sample the area's best climbing; Ty and Matt Gordon: "The Pak Bros" - They began their climbing career a little over 4 years ago, or about the same time they moved to Pakistan; Jim Thornburg - Jim is an unlikely contributor to the hipness that is Urban Climber

ENTOURAGE - #10 > April/May 2006
Pete O'Donovan - These days Pete is as likely to be seen hanging from a cliff with a camera in hand as actually trying to climb up one; Matt Stark - You think your commute to work is bad? Try driving ten hours one way to clock in at your job. That is exactly what Matt does every month to set routes at the Gravity Vault in New Jersey; Jason Danforth - The self-proclaimed "best boulderer in Queens", Jason has been climbing for over eleven years, competing for eight, and route-setting at ten different facilities since 1996; Damon Corso - In four years of climbing, and only two shooting and arranging photographs, he has amassed a portfolio of every climber under the California Sun

ENTOURAGE - #9 > February/March 2006
Brian Solano - Originally from the humid flatlands of Florida, Brian developed his passion for climbing in the tight community of the Southeast. After Brian completed high school, he moved to Colorado to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder and to feed his growing desire for adventure; Ian Maffett - Primarily a boulderer, he recently returned to sport climbing. Around the time he started climbing, he took his first computer science class. While completing his Computer Science degree, he started working with web-based applications and applying them to a few climbing sites; Kyle Roseborrough - Kyle grew up an hour north of Hueco Tanks and he's been spoiled ever since. After quitting a Ph.D. program at Northern Arizona University, he started Clear Sky Designs, a web development company, and has been happy ever since

ENTOURAGE - #8 > December 2005/January 2006
Eric J. Hörst - Eric is an author of six books, an avid photographer, a prolific route developer, a coach and speaker, a university administrator, and a dedicated family man; Alex Messenger - From Manchester, UK, Alex has been climbing for over ten years and is increasingly getting sucked into life behind the camera - since by his own admission, his fingers are far better at pressing buttons than they ever were at crimping; Joe Iurato - Since before the UCMAG's launch issue, Joe Iurato has been a part of the UCMAG family. He started out with a bang as UCMAG#01's poster boy and wrote the "Dreams in Bleau" feature in that issue.

ENTOURAGE - #7 > October/November 2005
Brian Rhodes - Lately, Brian can be found on almost any given weakened milling around Rifle Mountain Park, with pumped forearms and a big smile on his face; Keith Ladzinski - One day of climbing was all it took. An outdoor enthusiast at heart climbing offered a whole new experience and reason to travel to unseen places; Louie Anderson - Having learned to aid-climb at the Riverside Quarry in California in the early 80's and then freeing aid lines there sporadically over the next decade, Louie has always had its further development in the back of his mind

ENTOURAGE - #5 > June/July 2005
Jamison Bourque - A pursuer of adrenalin endeavors from a wide range of positive sources finally finding climbing and cycling as his strengths; Chris Redmond - Based in Princeton, New Jersey, contributing writer and photographer Chris Redmond began climbing 15 years ago. Since then, his passion for the sport has grown into a way of life; Jacqueline Chiddo - Jacqueline stumbled across the sport of rock climbing in an unlikely area of the country, New York City; Frank Corl - A medical illustrator, animator, author and faculty member in The Advanced Medical Imaging Lab, Frank gets his regular climbing and training in at Earth Treks in Timonium, Maryland.

ENTOURAGE - #4 > April/May 2005
Nathan Smith - In 1992 Nathan faced his fear of heights by climbing - and was hooked. Thirteen years later he's still climbing and still afraid of heights; Justin Roth - Roth discovered that climbing up walls suited him when he tried climbing at a young age in a makeshift American Youth Hostels gym in Ohio; Josh Helke - No stranger to creativity and development within the climbing community, he has printed his artistic visions by developing hundreds of new routes and boulder problems across North America; Matt O'Connor - He started climbing in 1988 in New Hampshire. The wilderness called him West, where he has been involved in the climbing industry ever since.

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