The new year is always a great time to reassess your life. When I used to teach lecture classes on fitness and health at Metropolitan State University of Denver, the students first project was to assess their lives on a “Wellness Wheel.” The goal is to view the essential categories of life on paper. This way one can see where to add more focus, or where to back off some. I encourage you to do the same this year, so that you can be more...

We are very accustomed to a large variety of hand-holds, taped routes, and a forum for giving an opinion on the latest sandbag. That world did not always exist, of course. In 1987 when we were starting the first rock gym in the country there were no such things as hand-holds.  We had to use rocks brought in from our buddies that they picked up on their latest climbing trip. Hand-holds didn’t come about until late ’88. Metolius was the only...