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Tag: Women climbers

  • RunOut #80: Barefoot in Font, Valley of Giants

    RunOut #80: Barefoot in Font, Valley of Giants

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    Will a new film from Reel Rock encourage climbers to engage in risky behavior and not use their rubbers on the rock? We discuss Barefoot Charles and his conspicuously well-coifed mane of hair.

    Next we speak to Lauren DeLauney Miller, a writer and climber who has released a wonderful new book of first person essays from the significant women, both well known and perhaps lesser known, who have made contributions to Yosemite climbing history.

    Finally, we share the guitar-picking music of climber and friend of the show Harris Frief, a musician in Bishop, California.

    Show Notes

    Barefoot Charles

    Catch Barefoot Charles on the Reel Rock Tour

    Lauren DeLauney Miller website and Instagram

    Check out Harris Frief’s music on BandCamp: “Guitar” and “Right Where You Left Off” and please kick him a few bucks to support his great songwriting.

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  • Runout #37: Male-Dominated No More

    Runout #37: Male-Dominated No More

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    The face of climbing looks very different today than it did 20 years ago. The words “sausage party” come to mind when thinking about how to succinctly capture the typical crag scene of the recent past—only it was less of a party and often more of a sausage-measuring contest that played out through downgrading each other’s projects and boasting about stupid shit like headpointing sport climbs on trad gear.

    Fortunately, climbing has changed and you only have to visit any crag in America to see that the sausage plate of yesteryear’s party is but one of the many tasty hors d’oeuvres in the cornucopia of our climbing community buffet.

    For as long as I can remember, one of the biggest questions in climbing was just how damn many of us there are. For years, that question was anyone’s best guesstimate until the Outdoor Industry Association began taking serious strides to find out. And what they found in their latest report was pretty incredible.

    This is Andrew Bisharat, and I’m here with my co-host Chris Kalous. And today we’re speaking to James Rein from the Outdoor Industry Association, to share their latest, striking report about climbing and our new demographics. Spoiler: climbing is no longer a male-dominated sport.

    Yes, there are more climbers—a lot more. And in this conversation, I sort of make a lame, cliche joke about being bothered by this mass influx of people. But the truth is, I think it’s great. The strength and vitality of climbing is a direct reflection of the diversity of people who climb. Climbing actually is one of the most equal-opportunity sports in the outdoor industry. The fact you can go crags all around the country and find men and women climbing together, on the same routes, as equal partners in every sense, is something to be really proud of.

    So, brace yourselves, for the latest stats on our sport, from Mr. James Rein.