Climber Profile

Dave Evans
Dave Evans
photo© Greg Epperson
 Dave Evan’s visionary routes are well known such as Swept Away, Figures on a Landscape, Black President, Caught on a Big Set, Last Unicorn, Manly Dike and Dangling Woo Li are a small sample. Behind Dave’s mellow and kickback demeanor is the mind of a motivated and driven climber.

Dave was introduced to climbing at a very tender age, by his father, also a mountaineer and climber. Dave spent his sixteenth birthday soling the South Face of Washington’s Column. Dave was introduced to JTree climbing as a boys scout, and as soon as he and his friend’s could drive, they were at the crags often. His ability to scout out a new route and do it up is a tribute to his ability, boldness and motivation, and just plain old luck. Dave would launch off a stance and just start mad-dogging it, hoping for another stance to drill from, usually without any aid, hooks, heads or other shenanigans. Somehow, unseen from below, holds would somehow appear for the feet and hands, the drilling stances would arrive. When the drilling stances didn’t appear, he just kept on climbing. Whether it was boldness or luck, he kept up a string of first ascents that is beyond impressive. His prolific climbing career, pleasant energy, and consumption of routes continue today.

Dave Evans

photo© Greg Epperson

Dave has climbed extensively throughout North America (So. America too), and his experiences on the mountain and at the crags reads like a dream within a dream. His many first ascents at Margaritaville, Tahquitz/Suicide, Canyonlands and in the Southern Sierra, the list goes on. He was one of the first to reach 1000 climbs in Joshua Tree.

His wife Margie is an accomplished well-traveled climber and she manages Rockreation Climbing in Costa Mesa. Dave is an environmental quality tester.

Dave is a risk taker, but not often the fool, and when he is the fool, he has a guardian angel to help him out.

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