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Fall Speaker Series: VetEx
The season is upon us here at the Gunks. Crisp days followed by cool nights, and, for the climbers among us, a sea of sticky stone. While your day might be filled with plugging gear or even a...
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Montane: The Story Behind a Brand, Representing a Way of Life
“A four-man team is designed more for comfort than speed, and there under Mount Fitzroy’s 5,000-foot Super Couloir, a fearsome route on its vast North-West Face, with the temperature way beyond cold,...
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Ice climbing in the Catskills: history, anecdotes and an ice fest
*All photos in this post are credited to Christian Fracchia. “Ice climbing in the Catskills might not be the feather in the cap but it can be a substantial experience,”...
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The Stewards: The Mohonk Preserve
Our little neck of the woods is ripe with diversity, and steeped in rich appreciation of the outdoors. For those of us who live here, we all share the sentiment; for those who visit, it is easy to see...
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The Stewards: Open Space Institute
Our little neck of the woods is ripe with diversity, and steeped in rich appreciation of the outdoors. For those of us who live here, we all share the sentiment; for those who visit, it is easy to see...
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The history of Rock and Snow—a cult classic
Rock and Snow celebrates 45 years of keeping it real ** If you build it, they will come. That was the thought of the area legend and Gunks guidebook author, Dick Williams, and Dave Kraft, who in...
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Looking Back to Look Ahead
This weekend (May 1-3), the ROCK Project will be coming to New York. For those unfamiliar with this event series, the Access Fund and Black Diamond teamed up to work with the climbing community,...
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The Story Behind Brave New Wild
Originally from Ellensburg, Washington—now based in Flagstaff, Arizona— Oakley Anderson-Moore’s dive into filmmaking was anything but conventional. She launched her work with a...
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Flashback: Rich Gottlieb
Bold rock and ice climber and owner of Rock and Snow, Rich Gottlieb, talks about the past, the present and what it means to take risks. The smile says it all. Photo by Teri Condon. A fixture in...
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Flashback: Elaine Matthews
A prolific female climbing pioneer of the 70s, Gunkie Elaine Matthews talks women in climbing and how she became a "lifer". The ever-stong and humble Matthews tolerating a photo in Joshua Tree. Photo...
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Fall Speaker Series: Luke Mehall
The brains behind the words this weekend: Luke Mehall. The season is upon us here at the Gunks. Crisp days followed by cool nights, and, for the climbers among us, a sea of sticky stone....
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Flashback: Scott Franklin
While picking through an outdoors store in Acadia on a bike trip that he and a fellow student took from New York to Maine, a 14-year-old New York City-based Scott Franklin stumbled upon climbing—a cool...
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Climbing shoes: buying and selling, used and new
Maybe you've just started climbing and you're breaking in your first pair of climbing shoes in the gym. Or maybe you've been climbing for 10 years and have a closet full of climbing shoes, skipping...
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The Beta: Bouldering in Hueco Tanks
Earlier this month, two Rock and Snow employees and a few of their friends flew south for nearly two weeks of bouldering in the west Texas sun. Considered by many to be both the mecca and the...
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State of the Used-nion: 90 Days at the New Annex
We opened our new Annex location at 28 Main Street three months ago. Now we're looking at what's changed, what's stayed the same, and what's next for our new building for old gear. It was just...
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The Beta: Gunks camping and climbing this season
Fritz Weissner was practicing modern climbing techniques in the Gunks before chocolate chip cookies were invented, and, like chocolate chip cookies, the Gunks engender a certain homey nostalgia in many...
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Made of Stone
How the Gunks Volunteer Trail Crew is Changing the Way You Approach Climbing Dick Williams has been climbing in the Gunks since 1958, and when you visit his office you’ll find signs of it. Pictures...
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