On the Mountains

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2006

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Column

The Great Divide

“I just want a boyfriend who climbs... I just want a woman who will go to Yosemite with me... I want a man/woman/dog who gets climbing... I want to sleep with/date/marry another climber... ” Well, don’t we all?

The life in between the climbing you pretend is the life — a selection of my 7-year  Whipped column for Climbing Magazine. From decoupling your climbing gear to the real skinny on dating non-climbers, from why capris matter to how to be a dictator of your own van-world.

“You have never before had a partner who will drink from the same nozzle on the first climb.”
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