Feathered Friends Blog

The West Ridge of the Moose’s Tooth Success on the Moose’s Tooth By Mark Smiley Janelle and I were very excited to get back into the classic climbing circuit for the fourth year in a row, after an amazing winter...

A huge congratulations is in order for Feathered Friends athlete Kristin Gates after she completed her epic journey, traversing the Brooks Range in Alaska. She traveled solo, backpacking and rafting her way from the Yukon border to the Chukchi Sea....

Join us August 14th at 7:30pm for an evening of photo, video, and stories with Mark and Janelle Smiley on their endeavor to climb the Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. 2012 and 2013 have been loaded with massive classic...

Setting out from Puerto Lopez at sunrise Most climbers (myself included) consider themselves a bit on the fringe. Like salmon, we swim against the flow knowing very well that the reward will be that much sweeter because we refrain from...

Greeting the morning sun in J-Tree It’s been a long-standing goal of mine to get down to Joshua Tree. I imagined I would marvel at the 7,000+ climbing routes dispersed among a veritable sea of monzonite granite. The dry air,...