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Who doesn’t love booty? Finding gear on a route can make a climber’s day, but what are the best practices for finding the owner’s gear? Court’s in order for your friendly podcast hosts as they debate the finer points of booty while litigating one listener’s story of being accused of not doing enough to return booty to its “rightful” owner.
Our main guest today is Jeff Jackson, aka “Jefe.” Jeff is easily one of climbing’s most prolific route developers and greatest writers and storytellers. A former editor of Rock and Ice magazine and successful screenplay writer, Jeff currently teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaii Maui College. While living on Maui, Jeff has helped develop hundreds of new rock climbs and crags. Some of the more famous routes of his career, however, are located in Mexico and include El Sendero Luminoso in El Potrero Chico and El Gavilan on La Popa, which happens to be the subject of a new climbing film.
Last and certainly least, “Whose PSSAT is this anyway?” returns for today’s final bit.
Show Notes
Read “Paradox of Paradise,” by Jeff Jackson, which was originally published by Rock and Ice and appeared in Best American Sports Writing 2019.
Read “A Climber’s Ghost Story, Unexplained,” also by Jefe.
Check out the trailer for the new El Gavilan film by Savannah Cummins.
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One response to “RunOut #88: Booty Rules, Aloha Jefe”
I enjoy the podcast in general, and it usually leaves me with food for thought. I found Jeff Jackson’s behavior in Hawaii really arrogant and colonizer-y and cringy, and also was a little disappointed that you guys didn’t probe a little more into the fact that white people have spent hundreds of years using the whole “but in my heart, my intentions were pure” excuse to completely disregard indigenous people protesting intrusion onto land and customs they hold sacred. I don’t know if I believe in ghosts, but it was pretty striking that Jackson automatically interpreted them showing him mercy as complete absolution of his actions.