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Calvin Laatsch climbing rock climbs. Living, learning, and writing.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

The Warrior's Quest

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True mountain warrior We weren’t technically running, but I was moving as fast as my legs would carry me up the switchbacks. Leaving th...
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Monday, May 2, 2016

The Big One

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I notice that my knuckles are raw and chaffed from stuffing my fists into the wide crack leading up into an endless wall of granite. I paus...
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Saturday, September 5, 2015

Stronger Than Ever

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Before and after my ankle enhancement surgery. Someone I have never met before, told me he heard about me breaking my leg on Moonl...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Try Hard

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Lunch break part way up Moonlight Buttress Working as a carpenter I swing a hammer all day, move lumber, run heavy equipment, and gener...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

My Leap into Fame

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Why not stop for a selfie? I became famous in Yosemite Valley during my last climbing trip. Not for climbing 5.15, freeing an old aid ro...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Next Step

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You know how you tell your girlfriend she is pretty every day. She is thankful for the complement, but it doesn't actually count, until ...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Belling-home

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Governor Ernest Lister My climbing may have slowed in the past couple months, but my excitement for climbing has not waned. I have devel...
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