Clyde Soles is the author of Climbing: Training For Peak Performance and The Outdoor Knots Book. He founded Trail Runner magazine and was senior editor there and at its sister publication Rock & Ice. His articles and photographs have appeared in Outside, Backpacker, Climbing, POV, Hooked on the Outdoors, and others, and he is a contributing writer to GearTrends and SNEWS. He and his wife live on 35 acres in Boulder, Colorado.