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The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Enormocast 247: Dustin Bowen – From Rocks to Rodeos

The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Chris Kalous

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

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 247 of the Enormocast, I sit down with climber, resoler, and professional bull rider, Dustin Bowen. Dustin grew up in Pennsylvania, but was drawn to Western style rodeo from an early age. When his mom’s plan to let him get it out of his system in rodeo school failed, Dustin went on to …

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Enormo cast.

0:08.0

Does how you get your stuff to the crag really matter that much?

0:11.7

Couldn't you just throw in a hefty bag and sling it over your shoulder or drag it up the trail

0:16.0

to most cliffs just fine? Probably. But as long as we're on about things that don't matter,

0:21.1

remember that the sun will eventually atomize the planet and suck it all into a black hole,

0:26.1

including that beautiful rack you just finished accumulating. So does anything really matter?

0:31.0

Well, disregarding that existential crisis, maybe it's time for a new pack from Black Diamond

0:36.2

that looks better, carries better, and just says, I have my shit together, you can trust me.

0:41.8

For starters, Black Diamond's Creek 50s become a legendary all day crag pack with Hallbag durability

0:47.9

and a smooth finish. The new transit series takes the same sleek no-flim-flam design to the streets,

0:54.0

with tight little packs for your on-foot commute, rolling to the gym, travel, or just running down

0:59.2

to the coffee shop to get internet and update your InstaFaceMyTweetTickTube. Black Diamond also

1:04.7

has mini packs for long routes, stuffles for the gym, big packs for you kitchen sink types,

1:09.2

lightweight running and alpine packs, all the packs. And guess what? They even have climbing packs

1:14.4

without Isaac's loops. Most of us don't need the Isaac's loops, you guys. So to get the right packs

1:20.3

to do what you want and only what you want from the climbers at Black Diamond, go to BlackDiamondEquipment.com

1:26.3

or your favorite local shop. Do you like compliments? Compliments are good, right?

1:39.3

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

1:44.0

ginger from your favorite bro at the gym. Compliments can turn your frown upside down in an instant.

1:50.3

And hands down of all the gear I pedal on the normal cast, the item that receives the most

1:55.2

out of the blue compliments are the splitter hats from PeterWGilroy.com. You know, the ones with

2:01.2

the titanium plaques and badges. That's right, titanium on a hat. Peter started making these hats

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