On September 6, Stephen M. Buda III (56) was killed when he fell from 150 feet up Easy Street, a two-pitch 5.6. He was free soloing when he fell. According to the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office investigation, which included eyewitness accounts, B...
On March 23, a male climber (43) was climbing pitch two of Middle Earth (3 pitches, 5.6) when he apparently dislodged a large block that narrowly missed his partner, who was belaying atop the first pitch. In the process, the leader’s left foot was...
On April 18, Gabe Schwartz (39) and Kile Simpson (33) were climbing Wrist, a two-pitch 5.6 in the Trapps area. Simpson, a climber with four years of experience, was leading the first pitch. Schwartz, who had been climbing for over ten years, wrote...
I, Jessica Hans (female, 33), had a significant ground fall on Barber Shop Cafe (5.8+) at Percha Creek in November. I ascended 15 to 20 feet and placed a number 5 Black Diamond Stopper in the roof section as my first piece of pro. I continued up a...
On October 5, two guides, Ryan McGuire (37) and Ryan Tilley (26), started up Sliding Board (5.7), a classic eight-pitch route on the Whitehorse Slabs, as a practice climb. On the fifth pitch (5.6), which follows a faint dike feature, McGuire had l...
In midafternoon on March 12, a female climber (21) was hit by falling ice at the right end of the Parking Lot Wall at Rumney Rocks. She was standing at the base of the 75-foot-high Meadow Flows ice climb (WI3+) when a piece of ice naturally fell f...
On March 14, at approximately 5:15 p.m., a winter climber took a long sliding fall while descending a steep section of the Lion Head Winter Route on Mt. Washington. He was part of a group of three who all carried ice axes but were wearing lightwei...
On March 20, Alonso Rodriguez (25) was climbing Monkey Bar (V2) on the very popular Monkey Bar Boulder. He was part of a group of five, and a total of 15 climbers were at the boulder, with over ten crash pads. On his onsight attempt, Rodriguez fel...
On January 17, climbers W (18) and T (19) met at 7:30 a.m. to carpool into Hyalite Canyon. They had not previously climbed together. They planned to climb The Thrill is Gone, a classic M4 chimney on the popular and paradoxically named Unnamed Wall...
On July 16, Greg Sievers (63) and Rob Meshew (49) climbed a three-pitch route on the lower tier of the Watchtower in order to access Silver Foxes (3 pitches, 5.10a) on the upper tier. Sievers then started up the first pitch of Silver Foxes. The pi...
On June 21, Carson Broaddus (24) was climbing with Alexandra Stapleton (24) on the classic Shoshone South Face (5 pitches, 5.8+). The pair had linked pitches one and two. Broaddus was midway up pitch three, leading moderate 5th class on ledgy terr...
I originally spotted the line on Spearhead that would become The Kingfisher over 20 years ago—my eye was drawn to a beautiful arête formed by the left edge of the eponymous flake on The Barb (9 pitches, III 5.10). I tried to suss out a possible fr...
On March 25, Climber 1 (31) and Climber 2 (23) were involved in a rock climbing accident at Interstate State Park in Taylors Falls, Minnesota. The accident occurred while rappelling, with both falling from near the top of the cliff. Climber 2 was ...
On December 4, a climber (male, 26) fell above the last piece of gear he had placed on Charlie (5.13b, single-pitch trad) at Chocolate Factory. The route follows a crack in a dihedral. The climber fell while making a dynamic move on the face of th...
In March, Logan Zhang (11) hit a boulder on the ground while cleaning a route in the Motherlode. Logan was using the cable car (a.k.a. tram) method to retrieve his draws, staying clipped to the belayer’s side of the rope, as is common when cleanin...
On March 12, after onsighting Mailbox (5.8, trad) and Rock Wars (5.10a, trad)—both fantastic routes—my friends and I wanted to continue climbing on something easier. We found a climb called Long Wall Chimney (5.7, trad). I (male, 22) racked up and...
On June 20, Peter (65), Vivien (52), and Amy (50) intended to climb Another Greg Lowe Route (5.8, trad) and then top-rope a neighboring 5.10a climb. All three were veteran climbers, with collective experience exceeding 100 years, and all had been ...
On August 8, an unidentified climber fell approximately 40 feet to the ground when the rock beneath his feet collapsed. The climber was scrambling up the 4th-class ramp leading to the first bolt of The Joy of Cholla (5.11d), a one-pitch sport rout...
On June 6, a group (undisclosed number) of climbers preparing for a trip to the Pacific Northwest camped near the Stevens Gulch trailhead for Grays and Torreys peaks. They planned to start early the next morning in order to practice rope and snow-...
In mid-November, “Bill,” a climber in his mid-30s, took a serious leader fall after going off route while attempting a sport route called Power Trip (5.12a). According to a witness, Bill had mentioned climbing 5.12 in the gym but was shaky upon s...