Category: Member stories
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Gateway to Living a Granola Lifestyle
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Climbing strangely also seeped into other parts of my life: it helped mitigate my fear of heights, I’ve become more patient with myself and others, and I’ve learned to enjoy fitness. I started weight lifting and one of my dearest friends from WLC…
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A Light in the Darkness
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Climbing has given me a space in which I finally feel safe enough to fail. For the first time in my life, failing is fun because it means I’m challenging myself and I get to grow!
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The Consequences of Dirtbagging
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I had dreams of dirtbagging probably into my second year of climbing, but I was in a relationship that wasn’t conducive to that lifestyle. At the time…
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How to build a community when you don’t speak the language or understand the culture
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Climbing began as my deepest wound and became my greatest remedy—a journey where the poison and the antidote were the same. Like a lot of the nonmale climbers in my community…
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Coming Out of My Shell
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That was the moment I realized what really does matter. It’s not fixating on where my family or society thinks I should be in life personally or financially, it’s moments like this. Climbing has given me the opportunity to be in nature more and absorb all the wonderful gifts our earth has to offer.