Stories

Stories From the Rock

Collection: Motherhood & Climbing: A Chat with Legendary Climber Beth Rodden

At Outdoor Research, Giving Tuesday is an opportunity to align with partners who are making a mea...

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We recognize the remarkable strength and resilience that mothers possess. For mothers who ar...

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Outdoor Research Ambassador Graham Zimmerman on the controllables and uncontrollables surroundi...

A bivy sack or bivy shelter is a bit of a riddle—both sleeping bag and tent, and at the same t...

Bennett Rahn began climbing when she worked at an outdoor-focused middle school, and it wasn’t ...

Up against the toughest route he'd ever tried, Sean Bailey found what had always worked before mi...

Keenan Takahashi breaks down how he unlocked Empath, 5.15a, in Tahoe. If genius is only, as t...

Heading to a climbing gym? We’ve got something to tell you first. Never been to a climbin...

Torn between comps and outdoor climbing, he’s not willing to give up either. Sean Bailey self...

It took a pandemic lockdown, but Quinn Mason turned her old-school parents on to bouldering in a...

Have you ever slept out in a bivy sack? If not, you’re missing out. Not sure what a bivy sack is,...

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There’s a photo of Quinn Mason when she was 9 years old, placing fourth at Youth Nationals, qu...