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The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Enormocast 296: Barry Blanchard Live in Banff

The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Chris Kalous

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

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 296 of the Enormocast, we rebroadcast an interview that was recorded live at the Banff Mountain Film Festival with alpinist and Canadian legend, Barry Blanchard. Barry showed up at the Banff Centre at 9:45am and brought the fire and the wisdom of 50 years in the game. Barry’s feted exploits range from his …

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Enormo cast.

0:06.5

Sharp tools in your hands, spikes on your feet, screws wrapped on your waist, ice climbing is metal.

0:16.0

Black Diamond's ice collection has everything you need to send this winter, including the newly released Black Diamond Hydra, the most versatile ice tool ever made.

0:29.0

This winner, point to Hydra at whatever mountain objective you have and hold on.

0:34.3

Because with its integrated component exchange system, the Hydra becomes a customizable winter weapon for any and all cold nightmares you can imagine.

0:43.3

Swap out weights, picks, and accessories on the head of this monster, and you'll be ready for whatever stands in your way.

0:50.3

From pure water ice, mixed climbing, dry tooling all the way to the peaks

0:54.3

of the Himalaya.

0:56.6

The Hydra is a many-headed beast

0:58.6

that can send it all.

1:04.1

For this winter,

1:05.3

you can run away scared

1:06.5

or you can meet the beast

1:08.0

at blackdiamond.com

1:09.5

or your local mountain shop. One tool to rule them all.

1:14.0

The Hydra from Black Diamond. There was once a time, eons ago, when a person bought a product once,

1:26.7

and used it for the rest of their lives in fact once they died in accordance with local rights their entrails and organs were removed stored and they were wrapped and entombed under six million tons of cut limestone with those indestructible possessions so they could be useful in the

1:45.7

afterlife well the folks at yeti want you to think of their products the same way you know minus the

1:54.7

pulling your organs through your nasal cavity and the death and all that we live in a time with too

2:00.1

much cheap throwaway crap, pardon my French.

2:03.4

On the contrary, hear from Yeti, like the tundra cooler or the yonder water bottle, or Yeti's

2:10.7

plethora of stainless drinkware is built to combat that deplorable trend. But a Yeti product like

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