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Welcome...and thanks for visiting my site! I'm a climber/climbing guide/topo drawer in Tucson, AZ. I use this site to serve as a hub for climbing beta for southern Arizona, and to share a bit about my insights on climbing.2008 was a fantastic year. I climbed 155 days, completed my AMGA certification (see the guiding & instruction page), climbed my hardest climbs ever, and met a whole lot of new people. Currently I'm focusing developing a small new spot in Queen Creek Canyon near Superior, AZ, working on materials for a guidebook for Cochise Stronghold near Tombstone, AZ, and continuing to pursue professional guiding with Arizona Climbing Guides. So read on and enjoy! It's all about Adventure
Over the past 11 years, I've
trained with excellent climbers and built up experience climbing an
average of 140 days per year in Arizona, California, Nevada,
Colorado, West
Virginia, North Carolina, and Maine. I'm an AMGA Certified
Rock Instructor and work for
one of the best guiding services in Arizona.Why spend all this energy becoming a great climber? For the Adventure. Climbing allows us to visit remote, intensely beautiful places with sense of accomplishment and an appreciation of the magnitude of the world we live in. The success of the climb - summiting or sending - hinges on the interdependent skills and judgment of the party. In climbing, greater skill leads to greater adventure. To this point, I've been building my own skill so that I can climb increasingly longer and more challenging routes. But what's next? Robust journeys reinvent themselves and evolve. The next step is empowering others to experience the adventure that climbing offers. So I'm taking two new directions, both of which are detailed further on this updated site.   First-rate
guiding and instruction. Now
that I've achieved my long-time goal of AMGA Certification,
I've begun expanding my own guiding and instruction. I'll
continue working for Aspen Expeditions / Rocky Mountain
Climbing School, and developing a
comprehensive,
organized curriculum to teach in my own particular style. Click
the guiding and instruction link above for further information. Free,
excellent route descriptions. Cochise
Stronghold in southern Arizona offers outstanding
climbing in some of the most beautiful country in the southwest.
I'm developing high-quality topos for free download. All of these topos are
produced by
climbing each route personally and meticulously documenting the
difficulty of the climbing, the types of protection available,
and hazards I notice along the way. Click the topos link to see my work so far.Some further reading...A word about Erica Kutcher. |
