Return To Sender: A Climbing Podcast

In this episode, Griffinn and Will open up about their battles with mental health, disordered eating, and other vulnerable ramblings which intersect with their climbing.

In this episode, Griffinn and Will rehash previous gripes with some aspects of the climbing world and discuss ways of improving community and connectedness among climbers. 

In this episode, Griffin and I chat about our skin challenges (very niche subject, we know) and how we go about optimizing our skin for success on the wall. Additionally, we chat about the responsibility of gyms to maintain proper engagement with their communities and how the corporate mindset may or may not have a place in climbing. 

In this episode we invite Hannah, a Montreal-based crusher from New England, to talk about her experiences as a woman in the climbing community. We talk about challenges unique to fem-presenting folks, climbing role models, the gender-coding specific styles of climbing, and a whole lot more. We also talk about the representation of height and skill in the context of route setting and how competition and commercial setting has evolved. Finally, we talk about how we can make a the climbing space a little more comfortable for all and what we can do to support other folks in our community. 

Corrections:

"Rampage" films should be "Dosage".

In this episode, we discuss how differences in finger length influence our ability to climb, sex-based differences in connective tissue composition (starts at 33:08), and maintaining psych amid health issues (starts at 48:23).

At 35:14: "Flexor Digitorum Longus" should be "Flexor Digitorum Profundus".

At 35:47: "Cruciform" should be "Cruciate" ligaments.

In this episode, we discuss what goes through our minds before, during, and after an attempt on our projects, dealing with frustration in the face of failure, tactics for evaluating what went wrong during an attempt, and our experiences during our first year of climbing.

In this first episode, we discuss the grading schema in commercial climbing, specific aspects of route setting like climbing hold selection and complexity in movement, fostering a more supportive climbing environment, and certain climbing misconceptions.