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  • RunOut #133: Olympic Runner and Rock Climber Hobbs Kessler

    RunOut #133: Olympic Runner and Rock Climber Hobbs Kessler

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    Hobbs Kessler is a 21-year-old professional runner who ran a 3:34 in the 1500m in his senior year of high school. He has also climbed as hard as 5.14c with an ascent of Southern Smoke in the Red River Gorge. Hobbs just returned from the Paris Olympics, where he competed in both the 800 and 1500m races.

    But first, your curmudgeonly hosts roll their eyes at one of climbing’s most bitter personas: the climbing curmudgeon. It’s like we’re looking in the mirror!

    Today’s final bit is a mother-daughter violin performance of the Appalachian Waltz. The musicians behind this composition are my good friend Kate McGinnis, a nurse from Atlanta who is one of the most talented and strong climbers I’ve ever met, and her 13 year old daughter Annie, who is crushing rock climbs just like her mom.

    Show Notes

    Follow Hobbs on Instagram

    “Hobbs Kessler Climbs 5.14+ and Runs a Sub 4-Minute Mile. And He’s Just 17.”

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  • RunOut #117: How Two Big Wall Noobs Free Climbed the Nose

    RunOut #117: How Two Big Wall Noobs Free Climbed the Nose

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    Alex Waterhouse and Billy Ridal are both 26 years old, from Sheffield, England, and have been competing on plastic since they were 12. But once slapping plastic lost its allure, these two climbers found themselves dreaming of adventure. And adventure they found, as they spent a month fumbling their way into the world of big-wall climbing during a month long trip to Yosemite National Park earlier this year. And the unlikely duo emerged from their trip with one of the greatest prizes in climbing: a free ascent of the Nose. We caught up with the lads and talked about how they pulled it off.

    But first, your increasingly trivia-oriented show hosts look back on 2023 and try to recall what the hell happened.

    Last, damn good Buddy Spray from RunOut RopeGun Cooper Houston.

    Show Notes

    Two Retired Comp Climbers Pull Off a Rare Free Ascent of the Nose on Climbing.com

    Follow Alex Waterhouse on Instagram

    Follow Billy Ridal on Instagram

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  • RunOut #97: Why Lynn Hill is going back to the fundamentals

    RunOut #97: Why Lynn Hill is going back to the fundamentals

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    Lynn Hill needs no intro. She’s best known as the individual who completed the first free ascent of the Nose of El Capitan, as well as the first person to free El Cap in a single day. The ascent broke gender barriers and progressed the sport. Today, Lynn is returning to the fundamentals, through a new video series that is designed to help climbers learn how to move as naturally, efficiently, and effectively as possible. We sat down with Lynn in her Boulder home to catch up with one of the sport’s absolute legends.

    But first we get in the weeds with Viet Nguyen, a controversial coder responsible for OpenBeta.io, which has the goal of developing climbing’s first open-source route database. We try to unpack what open source means, and why it will become the future of climbing guides and apps.

    Our final bit is the climber/surfer band, Wanted Noise, from San Diego, California. The track? Cruise Control.

    Show Notes

    Check out The Fundamentals of Climbing by Lynn Hill.

    OpenBeta.io

    The Future of Climbing Guides Must be Open Source on Evening Sends.

    Wanted Noise on Youtube. And @wantednoiseca on Instagram

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  • RunOut #11: Connor Herson Frees the Nose.

    RunOut #11: Connor Herson Frees the Nose.

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    On November 19th, Connor Herson, a 15-year-old high school freshman from Emerald Hills, California became the 6th human to free-climb the Nose, only missing the 5th ascent to Keita Kurakami’s extraordinary free rope solo by a few days.

    Supported by his father Jim, a longtime valley climber, Connor freed the famous climb in a three-day push, only falling on, then redpointing, the Changing Corners pitch rated 5.14a.

    Connor has been surrounded his whole life by a climbing family including his dad, his mother Anne, and his badass older sister Kara, who, incidentally, climbed Half Dome in winter and the Nose in a Day sans jumars as a mere tween.

    On today’s RunOut, Andrew Bisharat and I – two climbers well past their prime – grill Connor Herson – a climber only on the cusp of his vast potential – about what makes him tick.