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Eldo Gold
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While I was deeply familiar with photographs of Eldo, as it seemed to overrepresented in climbing magazines from the 90’s, I never imagined I would visit. Despite being able to instantly recognize the rock, the bridge, the lichen, the creek, it just never stuck in my brain as a destination.…
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Heatwave at Holcomb
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What is sport climbing. Is it bolts? Yes, but not entirely (consider: Stichter). Is it bolts with close spacing? Maybe. No one follows and everyone leads the route? That’s probably sport climbing, but I keep thinking that it hinges on lowering. It’s hard to definitively define, but I think if…
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Solstice at the Leap
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It’d been years since we’d visited the leap. The last time we self-sandbagged by jumping on East Wall pretty much off the couch. We forgot that we hadn’t climbed in two years, and proceeded to hop on three pitches at elevation. We survived, but it was a tough time. This…