Dave is from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and has been climbing for over 30 years. He regularly writes on social media climbing sites and is currently writing a book with a collection of stories about climbing and the senses. In July 2019 Dave joined Common Climber as an Associate Editor. Check out his welcome letter and extended bio.

Dave can be reached through Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/dave.barnes.984

Common Climber Writings:
 

• A Climber's Hands (By ​David Barnes) - A climber's hands are conductors which earth us as we climb. Our feet back them up.  A climber’s hands are the touch-stone of our climbing lives. If you’re into tender and supple hands, don’t take up climbing.
• Demented Dirt Bag (By ​David Barnes) - The scruffy looking peeps who have darkened hands from anodised carabiners, weird looking toes from being cramped in climbing shoes for way too long and blunt everything’s, from ice axes to pocket knives. They have scavenged hands from getting their jam in cracks. These climbers have given up on normal and live for the climb. These demented ones are The Dirtbags. 
• ​It Was His Time: Brad Gobright (Interview May 2019) (By David Barnes) - Common Climber Assistant Editor Dave Barnes shares a tribute to and his May 2019 interview with the late Brad Gobright. 
  
• John Middendorf : A Big Man for a Big Stone (By David Barnes) - Suffering from hypothermia on the side of Half Dome in Yosemite during one of the worst storms of the decade, John Middendorf became life-threateningly aware that there were no storm-proof portaledges available at the time. Middendorf, an engineer and big wall climber, resolved to change that.
• Snakes and Ladders (By ​David Barnes) - Australia – the land where walking out your front door means you may be bitten, stung, or even killed by any number of critters. Now try it on a climb...
• The Taste of Climbing: The Third Sense (By David Barnes) - A climber describes climbing from a unique perspective - taste. 
• ​Things of Stone and Wood (by Dave Barnes) - A tree is lodged smack-dab in the middle of Dave’s new climb. The author struggles with whether to remove the tree of leave it, taking us on a thoughtful journey of trees and climbing.