Rock and Ice and Climbing have gone downhill (I've been reading them since the early 90s). Alpinist (http://www.alpinist.com/ is a far better journal, though it is likely twice as expensive as both R&I and Climbing put together.
I agree, Climbing has been getting more noticeably worse than R&I, but my coworker gets em every month so I have a subscription by proxy.
I subscribe to the Alpinist Newswires RSS and do check it out online occasionally. I'm preparing to do the regular northwest face of half dome this August (first big wall), it's just one of the places I've been looking for inspiration.
