An overworked solar contractor and cram-in-a-road-trip climber, he definitely considers Cochise his sanctuary. Allen Riling packing up after a snowstorm for a hike into the Rockfeller DomesĪllen Riling, Anna’s husband, was belaying me as I hung there. For the light, and for the wind.” Photo by Kennan Harvey. For the Apache, the immigrant, and the climber. For the cypress, the coati, and the jaguar. I come back often.Īnna Riling, a friend who wrote a feature for Climbing in 2012, calls Cochise a sanctuary, “…for the hardened, the rare, or the castoff. Just finding the trailhead during my first visit in ’88 was challenge enough yet the combination of prickly desert approaches, striking granite towers covered in vibrant yellow lichen provide for and some of the best moderate multi-pitch routes anywhere. A long time adventure climber I love visiting Cochise Stronghold. Rock climbing at the Rad Rock, Isle of You, West Cochise Stronghold, Arizona
Dangling several hundred feet up the cliff face, notched perfectly in the tippy top of a mountain pass in the Dragoons of southern Arizona, I suddenly wondered if my climbing rope might actually need to hold me down ? Photo by Kennan Harvey. The wind shrieked across our amphitheater of stone columns and corridors jutting above the green thicket of red trunked madrone trees thrashing in the wind like crazed world cup soccer fans. Hanging on a protection bolt, on a moderate traverse, unable and unwilling to move a free climbing failure – I was starting to get grumpy.
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