“There is no avalanche danger unless a human is there,” said Dick Jackson of Aspen Expeditions at the start of a Level 1 avalanche course.

Sammy and I hunkered into the shade beneath the Weeping Wall, Suicide Rock, panting between pulls on a gallon jug of water. The sun had just crawled over Tahquitz Rock, a mile across the Sunshine Valley, and heat waves welled off the Suicide slabs. No big.

The Road to a Freer, Friendlier and still adventurous Zion

The first time Alex Puccio tried to join her climbing team, she didn't get far. Alex, now 17, from McKinney, Texas, had just started climbing at the Exposure gym.

The mighty Grimer and the world's best climbers square off at Arco.

The EOS is the only lamp reviewed with the batteries stowed right behind the bulb (the other three have a rear-mounted pack).