The Bay Area Wide Crew - BAWC
Once upon a time the climbing skills related to climbing offwidth cracks were lost, victim of modern climbing fashion that seemed to have moved on from aesthetics of ascending natural lines, and overcoming the challenges those lines would present.
But if you climb long climbs in places like Yosemite Valley you will encounter offwidth cracks, and it seems that being shutdown because of the encounter with the offwidth, having to go down because of lack technique, was silly.
Why not learn the technique?
So on this page I'll start to tell the story how we learned to do offwidth and what that lead to... who we met along the way and what has happened since.
But as I always say to people interested in learning "the secret": your mother was right, you have to practice, practice, practice. And we did devise ways to practice.
But if you climb long climbs in places like Yosemite Valley you will encounter offwidth cracks, and it seems that being shutdown because of the encounter with the offwidth, having to go down because of lack technique, was silly.
Why not learn the technique?
So on this page I'll start to tell the story how we learned to do offwidth and what that lead to... who we met along the way and what has happened since.
But as I always say to people interested in learning "the secret": your mother was right, you have to practice, practice, practice. And we did devise ways to practice.