ProView – Wild Country Mission Harness
The first thing you notice about the Women’s Mission Harness is the color. Electric teal outlined by an orange so bright it looks like the long lost cousin of a traffic cone. This is not a jab at Wild Country,…
Climbing
ProView – Outdoor Research Echo Hoody
The perfect layer to match a spring’s variable conditions. A layer you can keep on all day from cold mornings to warm and sunny afternoons, this layer is the key to an efficient spring outing. Out of the box, I…
ProView – La Sportiva TX4
Three thousand feet is a long way to fall. When picking new approach shoes to use for extensive simul-climbing and high exposure scrambling in the Tetons and Bugaboos, I chose to disregard price and pick what I thought was going…
ProView – Mountain Hardwear Kor Preshell Pullover
After a brutal winter season in Yosemite Valley, the sun is out creating perfect climbing conditions and I’m racking up. Having been climbing on a variety of terrain over the last five years, I absolutely despise climbing with a pack…
ProView – Evolv Oracle
Outdoor Prolink and Evolv were gracious enough to give me a pair of Oracles for testing and these are amazing lace-up performance shoes. I’m currently living in LA and try to make it out to climb every weekend and to…
ProView – Grivel North Machine Ice Tool
Performance These tools are equally at home on moderate to steep ice as they are on mixed or dry routes. I have climbed for two seasons (200+ routes) with these tools and have been impressed with their performance each and…
ProView- Salewa Wildfire Edge
Slabby approaches in the desert heat, snowy approaches in the alpine and everything in between, I put the Salewa Wildfire Edge MS through the wringer. Over the last month, I was fortunate enough to test this approach shoe on various…
ProView – Five Ten Aleon
As a long time climber, I’ve recently gotten back into bouldering and steep sport climbing as a way to train for longer and harder routes. I needed a climbing shoe that would give me the performance of an aggressive shoe…
ProView – Mountain Hardwear Kor Preshell Hoody
I’ve been using the Preshell pullover for the last couple of months as my ‘go to’ spring outer layer for… everything. Morning bike commutes to work, afternoon runs in the wind and light rain, spring skiing, rock climbing, alpine climbing,…
ProView – Outdoor Research Alpine Onset Hoody
Swoosh- click, swoosh, click, swoosh, click. My skis gracefully slide forward into deep fluffy snow, leaving a satisfyingly crisp imprint, before my heel drops and the next step begins. For me, there is no more satisfying rhythm than that of…