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  • The RunOut #169: Jonathan Siegrist is closing in on 100 routes 9a or harder

    The RunOut #169: Jonathan Siegrist is closing in on 100 routes 9a or harder

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    Jonathan Siegrist is a professional rock climber, widely regarded as one of the most prolific sport climbers in the world. He’s best known for pushing very hard sport routes, including numerous 5.15 ascents. This year he’s on track to reaching 100 routes rated 9a or harder.

    But first, we discuss the latest local drama, from price hikes to redtags, and what it all means when you have to watch some kid put down the hackysack long enough to hike your project

    Last, Kalous closes things out with his acoustic rendition of the 1972 soft-rock classic “Brandy(You’re a Fine Girl)” — reimagined for climbing.

    Show Notes

    Follow Jonathan Siegrist | https://www.instagram.com/jonathansiegrist

    Jonathan’s 8a.nu | https://www.8a.nu/user/mr-gruntz

    Training | https://trainingforclimbing.com/jonathan-siegrist-trains-5-15-climbs/

    Latest FA | https://www.instagram.com/p/DYaCHlnlO-T/

    Red Tagging in Rifle: The Debate Over ‘En Passant’ | https://www.climbing.com/news/red-tagging-rifle-en-passant/

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  • RunOut #43: So, Can We Start Climbing Again or What?

    RunOut #43: So, Can We Start Climbing Again or What?

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    When I was a young dirtbag, living out of an old sedan, sleeping on my crashpad in a $25 Walmart tent for children, drifting around from one climbing area to the next on what little money I had, I wrestled with the typical questions that keep many young newly college grads awake at night.

    What would I do with my life? What would I become? What would come next?

    Despite these lingering existential concerns, I held fast to my dirtbag lifestyle. Although I had aspirations to do more than just climb, I was also mostly happy sleeping in that stupid purple tent. There was a certain comfort in knowing that even if I failed to amount to anything else in this life, if everything went to shit, I could always go back to doing this—living in a tent, in Yosemite, climbing forever.

    Now even that security has been taken away. Yosemite remains closed. Campgrounds are closed. And many climbing areas are asking out-of-towners to stay away.

    But other climbing areas and corners of society are tentatively opening up, albeit not with a green light, but more of a yellow. Proceed with caution … but do proceed.

    Heightened uncertainty is the flavor of the year. We are actually living in the question, to paraphrase the poet Rainer Marie Rilke. For us, that all-encompassing question is, well, is it ok to start climbing again—or not?

    This is Andrew Bisharat. I’m here with my co-host Chris Kalous. And in this episode Chris and I wade into the murky waters of this question and attempt to parse our strange new reality, which I fear we’ll all be living with for quite some time.

    Hope you enjoy our dialogue and are even listening to it as you drive to discreetly climb somewhere safe while exercising best practices.

    Featured image by Keith Ladzinski.