You are listening to the Enormo cast.

Before the dawn of history, on the primordial earth, many, many years before Canada even existed,

there lived a tiny creature whose innovation changed the course of evolution.

This extraordinary critter, in an attempt to outdo and outlive the prey and predators around

it, decided one day to fly or glide or maybe just jump really high.

We don't actually know, but that's not the point.

The point is, is that the little archaeopteryx reached for the heavens and became a legend.

What this little rebel could not have known is that its strange brittle skeleton would be discovered hundreds of millions of years later

and inspire the folks at Arcteric's equipment to help our own earthbound corporeal

forms reach for the sky. Since 1989, coincidentally the year I started climbing, Arcterics

has been innovating gear and apparel for climbers to perform when the weather becomes

predatory, and also to help us look as spiffy as a lizard with feathers

while we soar to our own great heights. And now, Arcterix has joined the Enormo cast to continue

the tradition of telling stories of the best and brightest in climbing, as well as the

misfits dirt bags and fringe dwellers.

So, dear listener, raise your glass to that brave little lizard bird thingy that dared to fly,

maybe, and let's toast Arcterics for helping us achieve our own scoured dreams.

Arcteric is now a proud sponsor of the Enormal cast.

Listen, uh, where are you playing in town?

Are you playing here?

We're doing the, uh, the Normo dome, whatever it is.

It's terrific.

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