It’s time to buy a climbing rope, and you’re starting to feel overwhelmed. Static? Dynamic? What does it all mean? What is measured in millimeters? DOES size matter? All of these questions and more ...

When it comes to activities that require gear to get started, climbing generally isn’t the most expensive outdoor sport—but it’s also not the cheapest. Putting together a full gym kit, with shoes, ...

Staff members sit near some the top rope and lead climbs at the new Movement gym in the Design District in Dallas. Liesbeth Powers / Staff Photographer There’s a new rock climbing gym in town, and ...

Climbers still need a hydraulic boom lift to reach the highest point of Freestone Climbing Gym’s six-story rope room, but the days of human-powered ascent are getting nearer. “We’re open,” gym owner ...

LYNNWOOD — With granite crags and huge roadside boulders, Snohomish County is a rock climber’s paradise, but as the winter closes in, the Cascades can be awfully wet and slippery this time of year.

I’ve never enjoyed walking into a gym. Growing up as a fat kid, I have enough traumatic memories around exercise to fill several therapy sessions. On top of the shame I had around my body, I also have ...

Lead climb instructor Jospeh Ibarra of Richardson ascends a vaulted wall at Movement Gym, a climbing, yoga & fitness center, in the Design District of Dallas, August 21, 2025. Ibarra joined a friend ...

A rendering shows the entrance to the proposed Arête Climbing Gym at 315 W Holly Street in downtown Bellingham, Wash. Gabe Rogel Courtesy to The Bellingham Herald After years of planning, a ...