
Trip Reports
Expedition Opa: A Gastronomic Climbing Trip to the Ruth Gorge, Alaska
It was around a campfire in Joshua Tree this past November where I met a dude from the Basque Country who went by Ima, short for Imanol. Ima claimed he was an avid climber interested in big walls of the remote variety, but I was a bit skeptical being that he had nothing climbing related on him other than a pair of brand new climbing shoes and a chalk bag that was so small a single hand could barely fit in it.