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A conversation with Sebastiaan Zuidweg about building a climbing gym from scratch. Gravity Lab opens up in Durango, Colorado this month! Gravity Lab Check out some more stories/content: www.climbingzine.com Discount link for 15% off any product (except subscriptions) in our online store: https://shop.climbingzine.com/discount/DIRTBAGPODCAST15 Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theclimbingzine Our sponsors: Kilter: http://settercloset.com (email holds@kiltergrips.com for more information) Scarpa: www.scarpa.com…
Adventures With Two Tent Timmy is a zine classic, that will be republished in The Climbing Zine Book 2, now available to preorder. Read and written by Luke Mehall. Check out some more stories/content: www.climbingzine.com Discount link for 15% off any product (except subscriptions) in our online store: https://shop.climbingzine.com/discount/DIRTBAGPODCAST15 Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theclimbingzine Our sponsors: Kilter: http://settercloset.com…
Cover photo of Dave Marcinowski and Luke Mehall on Franklin’s Tower by Jake Burchmore Here’s a look at the story list: Projecting Is Waiting by Brittany Goris Echoes of Expansion: Taking Our Gear for a Walk in the North Cascades by Katie Griffith Meltdown by Beth Rodden Drifter Shoots, A Photo Essay by Isaac Wright…
Our second episode from the El Cap Meadow with Lauren DeLaunay Miller. Lauren was a contributor to Volume 12 of The Zine, and she’s the author of Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing Check out some more stories/content: www.climbingzine.com Discount link for 15% off any product (except subscriptions) in…
This is part 2 of Pat Ament’s essay, published in Volume 17. If you missed part 1, you can read it here. If you enjoyed this story please subscribe, it’s what keeps the zine dream alive! Banner photo of Pratt by Glen Denny. The psychic storm of the 1960s included the beautiful revelations and also…
Here I am again writing because of a promise I made to myself. I am just over a week out from my vasectomy, and I really don’t feel like writing about it. But, when I was preparing for my vasectomy, I didn’t see much first person writing, so I promised I would do that. In…
Yesterday I got a vasectomy. It was one of those procedures I’d built up a lot in my head; partially from hearing friends experiences, and just the nature of having a surgery on my balls. I did it because I don’t want kids. I’ve never for a moment in my life ever wanted kids. And…
Luke sits down with Beth Rodden in the El Cap Meadow, during the Yosemite Facelift. Beth contributed an essay called Meltdown that’s published in The Climbing Zine, Volume 22. Check out some more stories/content: www.climbingzine.com Discount link for 15% off anything in our online store: https://shop.climbingzine.com/discount/DIRTBAGPODCAST15 Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theclimbingzine Our sponsors: Kilter: http://settercloset.com (email holds@kiltergrips.com…
