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The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Enormocast 215: Lauren Delaunay Miller – The Five Year Plan…

The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Chris Kalous

Sports, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Wilderness

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 215 of the Enormocast, I connect with climber, writer, former YoSAR member, Lauren Delaunay Miller. Lauren found climbing in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, and quickly made a plan to climb El Cap in 5 years despite not having any idea what rock climbing actually entailed. She pursued her goal not …

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Enormo cast.

0:03.6

I think that Black Diamond has a marketing problem on their hands.

0:07.1

Too many camcodes. The C4, the Z4, the C3, the X3, the C3PO, and the R2D2.

0:15.2

Oh hey Disney lawyers, we'll scratch those last two.

0:19.6

But their problem is your gain because the reason for all the govily cook

0:23.4

is that Black Diamond refuses to stop innovating their cams.

0:27.2

First they introduce the ultralight C4s, and 30% lighter equals pounds across the full rack folks.

0:33.6

Which means you don't have to think twice about that glazed energy ring you gobbled while

0:37.4

standing in line at 7.11 at 4am on your Alpine start.

0:41.6

Then, if multi sets of ultralights is too rich for your blood,

0:44.8

they made a wink and a nod to the cheap dirtbags and redesigned the original C4s 10% lighter.

0:50.7

Then after another espresso or 10, they sat down and combined the C3 and X4 into the better,

0:57.2

Z4. Finally, sort of as a joke, I think. They burped out the number 7 and number 8 Camelot,

1:03.4

so the masochist could masochist even harder. Are you keeping up?

1:07.6

Well, the only thing to really remember is that the climber engineers at BD can't stop,

1:12.0

won't stop making their cams better. So the next time you're plugging your anywhere,

1:16.4

you're set up for yet another best day ever.

1:19.2

So go to blackdominequipment.com and check out the best protection money can buy.

1:23.5

And you know what, it wouldn't hurt you to place a nut once in a while either.

1:32.2

Do you like compliments? Compliments are good, right?

1:36.0

From the outright straight to your face statements of praise to the knowing look and slight

1:40.7

chin jet from your favorite bro at the gym, compliments can turn your frown upside down in an

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