In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness interviews Salem ice climber Forrest "Frosty" Gill about the fun and challenge of ascending frozen waterfalls and ice flows across ...

It offered more than the usual tennis rackets and football jerseys for sale. The store boasted a rock-climbing wall in one corner, golf simulators in another and an outdoor running track and turf ...

Craig Vollkommer wanted to know if I was fit before he took me ice climbing at Sleeping Beauty, a mountain on the east side of Lake George. He made it clear that it would be a long day, possibly ...

Modern climbers have the opposite problem. Go to any outdoor recreation store and prepare to be overwhelmed by shelves of cutting-edge climbing shoes and marketing gibberish. That’s how I felt ...