Ed Atin

Youth Programs

Ed started climbing in college with Outdoors At UVA. He first climbed outside in Moab, Utah over spring break his freshman year, then continued to learn and grow at the crags nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He looked up to the older climbers in the club who taught him to lead climb and clean anchors. Mentorship and community have always been essential to Ed’s relationship to climbing, and he jumped at the chance to lead beginner trips as soon as he felt capable. Ed believes that other people make climbing infinitely more fun (and challenging). 

Ed has lived in the PNW since graduating from the University of Virginia. He recently moved back to the Gorge after a summer season away in Seattle. After he attended his firstBrimstone Queer Climb Night, Ed knew Brimstone would be a great place to start building a new climbing community. 

Ed’s approach to outdoor sports is interdisciplinary. He instructs skiing (alpine and nordic), a bit of kayaking and snowboarding, outdoor climbing and backpacking throughout the year. Ed finds joy in backcountry cooking and teaching youth everything from pooping in the woods to poetry. In the wild, you may see him scrawling in one of his treasured little notebooks or chewing on an emotional support protein bar. 

Outside of the sporting and backcountry world, Ed still loves to read and write poetry, cook with others, and play games (especially word games). He also loves to dance. Ed is in pursuit of being more creaturely, more open, more intentional, and a little more dialed each passing day.