You are listening to the Enormo cast.

The role we hear at The Enormo cast want you, dear listener, to know that while making some of

the best and most reliable climbing gear in the world, Black Diamond is also supporting the climbing

community in many bold and generous ways. Of course, Black Diamond supports big players like the

Access Fund, but also little or cruise like the Salt Lake Climbers Alliance. That support can

look like wads of cash, amplifying in orgs messages, lobbying politicians, or taking stands against

billion-dollar bolder-destroying Goddella projects. Basically, it's Black Diamond pushing their

weight around to protect access. And the climbers at BD have not just talked to talk with BIPOC

climbers, but partnered with climbers for change to offer gym-to-crag grants to underserved communities.

They have joined with the AMGA to offer SPI and rock-guide scholarships that include door-to-door

funding for participants. BD also supports other affinity groups including Memphis Rocks,

the Adaptive Climbing Group, and She Moves Mountains. And the environmental orgs they support

are too many to list here. So if you want to know how the folks at Black Diamond are walking the

walk for the community, go to blackdiamenequipment.com and search under about us for more information

on where they're helping out. And maybe make a suggestion or get involved yourself.

Well, howdy partners. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm a Yeti, Yonder, Waterbottle, and I hold the

very key to life right here in my belly. That's right, water. Hydration. While without my tasty

preference, you'd have popped to clogs long ago, Buckaroo. Now you might say, well, big deal.

I got my own skinky big mouse scuzz bucket water bottle clipped to my pack right here.

And I'd ask you one simple question. How many holes does your water bottle have? You see,

most water bottles either got one big hole that makes the water dribbled on your chin when your

buddy gleefully taps the brakes while you're swillin' or one small hole that makes it nearly

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