I learned to climb in Colorado, on the Front Range, where we have 10,000 climbing routes within a two hours’ drive of the center of a city of three million people—sport, trad, bouldering, alpine, ice—and I’ll argue with anyone who thinks their city has better climbing access (operative word being “city”).
Photo: Courtesy Brendan Leonard
Somewhere around mile 2,500, I glanced over into someone’s rural Louisiana front yard and saw, among a couple dozen other hal...
