When you're approaching Castleton Tower, a 400-foot-tall rock formation near Moab, Utah, it seems completely quiet. And if you place your hands and feet on the sandstone, it’ll feel perfectly still.

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Castleton Tower, near Moab, pulsates at about the rate of a human heartbeat as it taps into the earth’s natural vibrations. By JoAnna Klein In 2013, a mutual friend brought Kat Vollinger and Nathan ...

Finally off of the shaded, windy north face of Castleton Tower, Squeaks (a.k.a. Richard Halsey) and I flatten ourselves next to the summit register, encircled by a makeshift windbreak of rocks. The ...

I was high up on a cliff above Moab, Utah, as night was falling, and I couldn’t find my way back down. I became painfully aware that I didn’t have a headlamp, nor an extra layer as it got colder.

Climber Scott Bennett has an interesting post up on his blog The Big Wide West about his recent trip to southern Utah to do the Castle Valley Enchainment. The enchainment links up five desert ...