patagonia retrograde pants

Patagonia Retro Grade Pants Review

Patagonia Retro Grade Pants Review

I love cotton. All you synthetic wearing hippies out there can have your stinky non-natural fibers. When I’m out climbing, I want to be comfortable, and for me that means cotton. That being said, it can be tough to find a good pair of cotton climbing pants that can stand up to the abuse of scummy trad climbing, which I suppose is why Sonnie Trotter designed the Retrogrades for Patagonia.

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Bulldog Creek Dog Walk (IV WI 4+)

Hayden Carpenter and Tom Bohanon recently repeated an obscure ice climb on the south side of Mt Sopris. Given a brief mention in Jack Robert’s ice guide, Bulldog Creek Walk is described as being 100 meters of WI 4. What they found was seven pitches of ice in a remote setting that makes for one […]

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