B.H. (Before Handholds)

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...

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