Stories
Giving Tuesday 2024: Carolina Climbers Coalition
At Outdoor Research, Giving Tuesday is an opportunity to align with partners who are making a mea...
You're Doing It Wrong: Climbers' Inverse Hierarchy Of Needs
Chilled to the bone, limbs leaden from physical exertion and fighting off cold, trudging down t...
Motherhood & Climbing: A Chat with Legendary Climber Beth Rodden
We recognize the remarkable strength and resilience that mothers possess. For mothers who ar...
Graham Zimmerman on Control: Climbing, Climate, and Creating Space
Outdoor Research Ambassador Graham Zimmerman on the controllables and uncontrollables surroundi...
Visibility Matters
Originally published by our partners at Pertex, this is a story about representation, inspirati...
Bivy Sacks: Part tent, part sleeping bag — pure convenience
A bivy sack or bivy shelter is a bit of a riddle—both sleeping bag and tent, and at the same t...
Why Affinity Spaces Are Complicated
Bennett Rahn began climbing when she worked at an outdoor-focused middle school, and it wasn’t ...
How Bibliographie Made Sean Bailey Rethink His Projecting Strategy
Up against the toughest route he'd ever tried, Sean Bailey found what had always worked before mi...
Anatomy of A Send
Keenan Takahashi breaks down how he unlocked Empath, 5.15a, in Tahoe.
If genius is only, as t...
What To Wear Indoor Rock Climbing
Heading to a climbing gym? We’ve got something to tell you first.
Never been to a climbin...