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Quotes For Rock Climbing

Quotes For Rock Climbing

The mountains inspire like no other landscape. Mountains have an allure to them, and getting to the summit may teach you a lot about life. While you dream of the peak and focus on your achievement in reaching it, you realize that the most significant part was the trip and the work required to get there. Success, like climbing a mountain, needs work, endurance, and a willingness to keep pushing yourself. So here are some …

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Is Rock Climbing A Good Workout

Is Rock Climbing A Good Workout

Maybe you’re thinking about if is rock climbing a good workout? Or maybe you’ve just begun and are thinking if this is the correct exercise for your fitness objectives. Rock climbing is exciting, inspiring, and enjoyable, but is it a good workout? Climbing rocks is a fantastic all-around, full-body workout. Your muscles, heart, and mind will appreciate you whether you work out indoors or climb genuine rock surfaces outside. Climbing rocks is ideal for people …

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Andrea Castillo

Women On Lead: Q&A With Ecuadorian Climber Andrea Castillo

Q&A With Ecuadorian Climber Andrea Castillo: Today’s Women on Lead post comes to us from Sarah Anne Perry, a writer, and climber currently living, climbing, and blogging from her current home base in Quito, Ecuador. Check out her blog Eat & Climb to keep up with her adventures! Lady crusher Andrea Castillo is a climber, coach, and entrepreneur in Quito, Ecuador. She knows the Colorado-sized country’s cliffs and mountains, and as she works to get Ecuador’s …

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Emily And Tim Harrington

Role Reversal: Interview With Emily And Tim Harrington

We had an interview with Emily and Tim Harrington, let’s get started. When I first saw Role Reversal it left a major impression on me: I want a dad like that. No offense to my own dad (I love you!), but how rad would it be to share a passion like climbing with your parent? Sure, my mom went to the climbing gym with me once, but I’m talking about traveling, exploring, and sharing the joys and frustrations …

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Austin Bouldering Project

Women On Lead: An Interview With The Setters Of Austin Bouldering Project

Austin Bouldering Project: In November 2015, the largest bouldering gym in the United States opened in Austin, Texas. With 50,000 square feet, the Austin Bouldering Project (or ABP as it’s known by locals) shattered records. And who better to take on the job of head route setter for the massive gym than the former head route setter of their sister gym (Seattle Bouldering Project), Christine Deyo? Deyo started her setting career in Seattle and quickly …

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Shauna Coxsey

From Wc Champ To The Wcs: An Interview With Shauna Coxsey

An interview with Shauna Coxsey stole the spotlight earlier this year at the Bouldering World Cup Series with her poise, confidence, and all-around grit and determination. She became the first Brit to win the series and has a promising future ahead of her with the inclusion of climbing in the 2020 Olympics. We were honored to chat with her, not only because of her recent accomplishments but her continued dedication to empowering women by founding …

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Whitney Boland

Climb4Life: An Interview With Hera Athlete Whitney Boland

On September 10th at MetroRock in Boston, the HERA Ovarian Cancer Foundation will be hosting their Climb4Life event with athlete Whitney Boland. I had the immense pleasure of getting to know her and her work with HERA, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and money for ovarian cancer research. Whitney on Requiem of a Heavyweight. Photo credit Christian Fracchia. Though I hadn’t heard of her before, when I mentioned her name to a couple climber friends I was told …

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Jessica Mor

Women On Lead: Interview With Jessica Mor, Founder Of 3Rd Rock

The climbing industry is full of innovative and creative people who use their talents to come up with ways that climbers can have an even better experience on the wall. The past few decades have given us lighter gear, better and harder ways to train, and opened up countless new routes in beautiful places that will keep us climbing for as long as we could possibly want. And now, thanks to a fun new company …

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Women On Lead: Cara Dozier, Owner Of Virginia Beach Rock Gym

Women On Lead: Cara Dozier, Owner Of Virginia Beach Rock Gym; Climbing gyms are perhaps the most valuable tool that we climbers have to build strength, improve technique, and prepare us physically and mentally to get out and crush on real rock. Gyms are probably where most of us started, and where a lot of people will end up staying, as indoor climbing quickly becomes a sport of its own. So while we love spending …

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Climbing Destination: Refugio Frey, Argentina

A trad climbing heaven, Refugio Frey is a self-contained Disneyland where the only ticket for admission is a 4+ hour hike and stoke to climb. Whether spending a week or a month there, the Refugio Frey is a rare gem in the world of backcountry alpine climbing: even while easily accessible from town, the only thing stopping you from climbing there for months on end is the tedium of the hike to town so you …

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