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For the Love of Climbing

This is not a climbing podcast. Well, sorta. This is a podcast about choosing vulnerability and talking about our pain—and how we are all really just shining examples of this messy human existence.

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17: What We Know

17: What We Know

If you’ve been paying attention to the news, this is what we know: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd are vi... Read more

1 Jun 2020

42mins

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15: A Winter in Pakistan

15: A Winter in Pakistan

When you go on a climbing trip, everybody thinks it’s a vacation. And you can’t get PTSD from a vacation, right? Except ... Read more

1 Jan 2020

50mins

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11: A Woman Knows Her Place

11: A Woman Knows Her Place

Women are a lot of things. We’re complex, we’re coffee-fueled, we smell good—sometimes we smell bad. Sometimes we’re han... Read more

1 Sep 2019

45mins

Ranked #4

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7: Why Not Now

7: Why Not Now

Fact: fear stops so much of what we do. But after one life-altering day in the Gunks, Caitlin stopped putting things on ... Read more

15 Feb 2019

39mins

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13: Donuts for Savvy (Part 1)

13: Donuts for Savvy (Part 1)

Grief is the one human experience that we all have in common, but there are no words for losing a child. Savannah Buik w... Read more

1 Nov 2019

Ranked #6

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16: A Hunger For Joy

16: A Hunger For Joy

On May 12, 1986, students and teachers from the Oregon Episcopal School Basecamp Program set off to climb Mt. Hood. Thre... Read more

1 May 2020

52mins

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9: Shit in the Woods

9: Shit in the Woods

This episode is about eating disorders, body positivity, and just owning your shit, specifically through the lens of cli... Read more

15 Apr 2019

42mins

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6: #NWS

6: #NWS

Angela has loved to the end of the earth, which is exactly how far she would travel in order to say goodbye to Scott. Af... Read more

15 Jan 2019

45mins

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12: Life, Interrupted

12: Life, Interrupted

Life is full of interruptions we’re rarely ready for, so the more doctors tried to convince Hans how serious his conditi... Read more

1 Oct 2019

Ranked #10

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14: Donuts for Savvy (Part 2)

14: Donuts for Savvy (Part 2)

To know Savannah was to love her. Nina and Court loved Savannah to the ends of the earth, and her unexpected death forev... Read more

1 Dec 2019

46mins

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8: The Heart of the Matter

8: The Heart of the Matter

Matt is the editor-in-chief of Climbing Magazine, a published author, a husband, a father, and a pretty well-seasoned cl... Read more

15 Mar 2019

43mins

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10: I'll Spare You the Platitudes

10: I'll Spare You the Platitudes

Corey's dad introduced him to climbing and the outdoors. In 2010, Corey’s dad died by suicide. We don’t actually have a ... Read more

15 May 2019

42mins

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Mini-Episode 8: How The F*ck Are You? (No, really.)

Mini-Episode 8: How The F*ck Are You? (No, really.)

We’ll be back on May 1st with new episodes. Until then, enjoy a mini-episode while I try to do things like not burn a fi... Read more

2 Feb 2020

26mins

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Mini-Episode 7: The Moral of the Story

Mini-Episode 7: The Moral of the Story

It's Still (Mostly) Not a Climbing Podcast. We took the summer off to stand fully in our truth, which means sometimes we... Read more

18 Aug 2019

Ranked #15

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5: Hold Fast

5: Hold Fast

There’s a remarkable beauty of relative perspective. Two weeks before leaving for Patagonia for a climbing trip, Alex’s ... Read more

15 Dec 2018

41mins

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