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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Matt Samet
How I Climbed V10 on the Boards at Age 53\r\rNow, bouldering is a sport of its own\u2014gaining popularity in indoor and outdoor environments all over the world. It\u0027s the simplest, …
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1 month ago | 
climbing.com | Matt Samet
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. If you had told me as I pulled onto a MoonBoard for the first time at age 47 that six years later, I’d do my first double-digit problem on a board, I’d have smacked you upside the head with a stick brush. That’s because, during that first session, on the 2017 MoonBoard at the Boulder Rock Club, I could barely do the easiest problems: the V3 benchmarks.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
climbing.com | Matt Samet
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Old habits clearly die hard, because my climbing partner Brandon and I were both grousing the first time we tried out the Edelrid Pinch at the gym.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
climbing.com | Matt Samet
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Back before climbing went mainstream (Olympics, gyms, Hollywood documentaries, Jared Leto, yippee!), we climbers were known for our social awkwardness and unapologetic penury.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
climbing.com | Matt Samet
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. The last time our budgerigar, Buggie, sat on my finger, I was passing her to the friend who’d volunteered to pet-sit while my wife, children, and I went to see family in New Mexico. Buggie was a slight creature, barely an ounce, baby blue with black-and-white wings and electric-blue slashes on her cheeks.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
climbing.com | Matt Samet
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. I can still remember the first sport route I bolted. It was on a giant granite boulder on a sun-drenched hillock of cholla, prickly pear, and scrub oak in Three Gun Springs Canyon, on the south side of the Sandia Mountains above Albuquerque, New Mexico. My friend Lance had found the cluster of rocks and brought in me and another friend, John.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
climbing.com | Matt Samet
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Why have climbing and travel so long gone hand in hand? I think it’s because climbing presents us with a uniquely immersive and tactile way to experience the world.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Matt Samet
20 hours agoEdited by Evan Zimmer Evan Zimmer Staff Writer Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism degree from SUNY Oswego, he wrote credit card content for Credit Card Insider (now Money Tips) before moving to ZDNET Finance to cover credit card, banking and …
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
climbing.com | Matt Samet
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. In 1991, when I first moved to Boulder, Colorado, I often stayed out climbing past my college dining hall’s dinner time. This meant I was forced to grab food at the Wild Oats health-food market (RIP) at the corner of Broadway and Baseline en route back to my hot, miserable dorm room in the basement of Baker Hall.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
climbing.com | Matt Samet
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Until you have kids, you probably won’t care what “family friendly” means—because you don’t need to. But once you’re a parent, those two little words can come to mean a lot, because as you’ll quickly learn, bored children can wreak more havoc than wolverines cut loose in a mattress store.
