Jamie Emerson's guest appearances

Jamie Emerson

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Our hearts and minds, like the rest of the sane nation, are focused on the Black Lives Matter movement. Frankly, along with the implications of Covid-19 and a looming election, it dominates our thoughts and conversations. With confederate iconography tumbling, once-silent voices rising, and police reform seemingly inevitable, it’s no time to lose focus. It’s really all we’re thinking about, reflecting on, and sending our meager efforts towards.2020 has beaten us down, collectively. If you’re not angry, frustrated, anxious, or famished for change and systemic reform, then you’re not paying attention. But it is exhausting. For every single one of us it’s exhausting, and yet we see you on the streets protesting, on the front lines working double shifts, and fighting for a better America in myriad ways. It’s a marvel and an inspiration to see.Before this chat with Jamie, we felt guilty talking about a privileged, historically white, and mostly frivolous activity like rock climbing. But as the conversation rolled on, each one of us shed our anxiety and rage for a couple hours. It was almost a physical sensation, like a deflation. It was the first time in a month any of us had just dug in to the ephemera of something so silly while so many others were fighting, at that exact moment, for a better future for the rest of us.If you feel like taking a break, join us for a couple hours. If you feel like chatting about climbing is anathema to meaningful dialogue right now, we understand that, too, and mostly agree.Jamie Emerson, through relentless energy and boundless curiosity, has cemented his place in the pantheon of western rock climbers. He’s had a hand in developing some of the most iconic areas in the Rocky Mountain region, from Mt. Evans to Roy to Rocky Mountain National Park to the vast boulderfields of Wyoming. He penned the seminal guide to Evans and RMNP and is working on a second addition right now. He’s a World Cup routesetter, an advocate for sustainable land management, and an outspoken voice when climbing delves into tricky waters. He was the perfect person to sit down with, to find some reprieve from a brutal news cycle, to give ourselves the gift of two hours of fellowship around something so silly but so meaningful to so many of us. If you need to take a deep breath, have a listen. You can get ahold of us on Instagram @thethundercling or via email at thunderclingpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks to Ryne Doughty for the tunes, as always.We’re with you all the way. We want to be a part of the change. If you have any suggestions or criticisms or voices you’d like to hear from, please get ahold of us. We’re with you. 

Our hearts and minds, like the rest of the sane nation, are focused on the <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Black Lives Matter</a> movement. Frankly, along with the implications of Covid-19 and a looming election, it dominates our thoughts and conversations. With confederate iconography tumbling, once-silent voices rising, and police reform seemingly inevitable, it’s no time to lose focus. It’s really all we’re thinking about, reflecting on, and sending our meager efforts towards.2020 has beaten us down, collectively. If you’re not angry, frustrated, anxious, or famished for change and systemic reform, then you’re not paying attention. But it is exhausting. For every single one of us it’s exhausting, and yet we see you on the streets protesting, on the front lines working double shifts, and fighting for a better America in myriad ways. It’s a marvel and an inspiration to see.Before this chat with Jamie, we felt guilty talking about a privileged, historically white, and mostly frivolous activity like rock climbing. But as the conversation rolled on, each one of us shed our anxiety and rage for a couple hours. It was almost a physical sensation, like a deflation. It was the first time in a month any of us had just dug in to the ephemera of something so silly while so many others were fighting, at that exact moment, for a better future for the rest of us.If you feel like taking a break, join us for a couple hours. If you feel like chatting about climbing is anathema to meaningful dialogue right now, we understand that, too, and mostly agree.Jamie Emerson, through relentless energy and boundless curiosity, has cemented his place in the pantheon of western rock climbers. He’s had a hand in developing some of the most iconic areas in the Rocky Mountain region, from Mt. Evans to Roy to Rocky Mountain National Park to the vast boulderfields of Wyoming. He penned the seminal guide to Evans and RMNP and is working on a second addition right now. He’s a World Cup routesetter, an advocate for sustainable land management, and an outspoken voice when climbing delves into tricky waters. He was the perfect person to sit down with, to find some reprieve from a brutal news cycle, to give ourselves the gift of two hours of fellowship around something so silly but so meaningful to so many of us. If you need to take a deep breath, have a listen. You can get ahold of us on Instagram @thethundercling or via email at thunderclingpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks to Ryne Doughty for the tunes, as always.We’re with you all the way. We want to be a part of the change. If you have any suggestions or criticisms or voices you’d like to hear from, please get ahold of us. We’re with you.

Episode 35: Jamie Emerson — Rocky Mountain Iconoclast

I sat down with Jamie Emerson last summer and had a really interesting chat with him. Jamie is, I think, an important voice in the climbing community. As an accomplished and ambitious climber himself, having sent up to V14, he has his finger on the pulse of the climbing community's players and their ascents. He has a deep appreciation for not only trying hard and sending hard, but also doing it all in style. I've always thought that Jamie would be the best person for the job of MC-ing big competitions because he knows a lot about everyone, and he truly cares about their accomplishments, failures, and their characters. As the writer at www.B3Bouldering.com, he not only keeps us all up to date on the most current sends, he also asks the hard questions and calls people out on ethical issues that no one else would dare to. This has earned him his nickname, "The Sheriff", which we discuss in this podcast interview. We talk candidly about a couple of his most controversial moments with other climbers, and whether or not he'd do it all over again if he could. In a sport where people regularly use shady tactics for cleaning boulders, terrorize the land surrounding those boulders, manufacture holds, trespass on private property, make up their own start holds, and "send" things without anyone witnessing said send (I mean, it didn't happen unless it's on video, right?), somebody needs to be the one to say, "You didn't follow the rules. Hey everyone, what do you think the rules are here so we can tell this person the rules?" That's Jamie, and I for one appreciate his honest, forthright style, and his willingness to fight for some semblance of order and respect in the sport, even if some think he might take it a little too far sometimes.In this interview we talk about all that, and also this: His biggest achievements in climbing His biggest failures His climbing aspirations His um.. interesting ascent of Gang Bang How he trains and the differences between the methods of all his different trainers What he eats What he thinks about his body weight as it relates to climbing How he likes being called the sheriff, and where that nickname came from What he wants to do in his professional life Why he loves finding and developing new boulders Why he started writing his blog The surprising ways his climbing has changed as he's gotten older What climbing means to him now compared with 10 years ago And more!Show Links Jamie's blog at www.b3bouldering.com Looking for more training advice? Check out our training programs here.

I sat down with Jamie Emerson last summer and had a really interesting chat with him. Jamie is, I think, an important voice in the climbing community. As an accomplished and ambitious climber himself, having sent up to V14, he has his finger on the pulse of the climbing community's players and their ascents. He has a deep appreciation for not only trying hard and sending hard, but also doing it all in style. I've always thought that Jamie would be the best person for the job of MC-ing big competitions because he knows a lot about everyone, and he truly cares about their accomplishments, failures, and their characters. As the writer at <a href="www.B3Bouldering.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.B3Bouldering.com</a>, he not only keeps us all up to date on the most current sends, he also asks the hard questions and calls people out on ethical issues that no one else would dare to. This has earned him his nickname, "The Sheriff", which we discuss in this podcast interview. We talk candidly about a couple of his most controversial moments with other climbers, and whether or not he'd do it all over again if he could. In a sport where people regularly use shady tactics for cleaning boulders, terrorize the land surrounding those boulders, manufacture holds, trespass on private property, make up their own start holds, and "send" things without anyone witnessing said send (I mean, it didn't happen unless it's on video, right?), somebody needs to be the one to say, "You didn't follow the rules. Hey everyone, what do you think the rules are here so we can tell this person the rules?" That's Jamie, and I for one appreciate his honest, forthright style, and his willingness to fight for some semblance of order and respect in the sport, even if some think he might take it a little too far sometimes.In this interview we talk about all that, and also this: <ul> <li>His biggest achievements in climbing</li> <li>His biggest failures</li> <li>His climbing aspirations</li> <li>His um.. interesting ascent of Gang Bang</li> <li>How he trains and the differences between the methods of all his different trainers</li> <li>What he eats</li> <li>What he thinks about his body weight as it relates to climbing</li> <li>How he likes being called the sheriff, and where that nickname came from</li> <li>What he wants to do in his professional life</li> <li>Why he loves finding and developing new boulders</li> <li>Why he started writing his blog</li> <li>The surprising ways his climbing has changed as he's gotten older</li> <li>What climbing means to him now compared with 10 years ago</li> <li>And more!</li></ul>Show Links <ul> <li>Jamie's blog at <a href="www.b3bouldering.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.b3bouldering.com</a></li> <li>Looking for more training advice? Check out our training programs <a href="http://www.trainingbeta.com/climbing-training-programs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</li></ul>

TBP 003: Jamie Emerson on Training, Ethics, and Being The Sheriff