Scree
A place for updates about the print magazine and other miscellany. The name "Scree" is a callback to the original Summit's back-of-the-book section, a hodge-podge of letters to the editor, cartoons, poems, and other bits and bobs.
Scree

What do buildering and the future of grading ha...
Owen Clarke is a writer and editor based in Alabama. His work often focuses on rock climbing and motorcycling, but he has covered a range of outdoor adventure sports —...
What do buildering and the future of grading ha...
Owen Clarke is a writer and editor based in Alabama. His work often focuses on rock climbing and motorcycling, but he has covered a range of outdoor adventure sports —...

From the Archives: Nuts to You!
Editor's Note: This article ran in the May 1967 issue of Summit. By Royal Robbins "Nuts to you.” That's what Chuck Pratt said when I told him I was taking...
From the Archives: Nuts to You!
Editor's Note: This article ran in the May 1967 issue of Summit. By Royal Robbins "Nuts to you.” That's what Chuck Pratt said when I told him I was taking...

From the Archive: Sea of Dreams
Editor's Note: This article ran in the May-June 1987 issue of Summit. By Dana R. Eubanks The alarm clock sounds at 3:30 a.m. on September 27, 1986. The gear...
From the Archive: Sea of Dreams
Editor's Note: This article ran in the May-June 1987 issue of Summit. By Dana R. Eubanks The alarm clock sounds at 3:30 a.m. on September 27, 1986. The gear...

From the Frontier of Gear Design to the Cutting...
Corey Buhay is a writer and editor based in Boulder, Colorado. She covers outdoor pursuits of all kinds but specializes in long essays and profiles revealing the grittier, messier sides...
From the Frontier of Gear Design to the Cutting...
Corey Buhay is a writer and editor based in Boulder, Colorado. She covers outdoor pursuits of all kinds but specializes in long essays and profiles revealing the grittier, messier sides...

Pargeter’s Peregrinations 🚶🏻
Editor's Note: From the January-February 1965 issue of Summit, Northwestern Editor Dee Molenaar reviewed a new pictorial relief map of the North Central Cascades. At Molenaar’s request, the map maker,...
Pargeter’s Peregrinations 🚶🏻
Editor's Note: From the January-February 1965 issue of Summit, Northwestern Editor Dee Molenaar reviewed a new pictorial relief map of the North Central Cascades. At Molenaar’s request, the map maker,...

Are bolts being placed by too many unqualified ...
Editor's Note: The late 1950s saw some of the earliest use of expansion bolts in the U.S., almost exclusively by pioneering climbers on big walls. By the early 1960s,...
Are bolts being placed by too many unqualified ...
Editor's Note: The late 1950s saw some of the earliest use of expansion bolts in the U.S., almost exclusively by pioneering climbers on big walls. By the early 1960s,...