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CLIMBING MOBILITY

esterday after work I warmed up on the porch hangboard with a cuppa, then 15 minutes later I was pulling onto my project – that is straight up, no bullshit, humdinger madness in my book. I had two burns, linked it to through the first crux, figured out the second crux, stuck that twice off the rope and went home feeling pretty fly. I’m one of those ‘climbs like trash but muscles through things’ city dweebs and this sexy red hunk of rock is spanking me daily, to the extent that I might even have some technique beaten into my feet by the

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