Enormocast 321: Katie McKinstry Stylos – Reaching Further

The Enormocast: the climbing podcast

Chris Kalous

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

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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On Episode 321 of the Enormocast, I sit down at the Michigan Ice Fest with dry tooling maven, Katie McKinstry Stylos. Katie spent her entire youth as a “horse girl”: training horses, caring for horses, and competing. But when she lost her beloved horse to complications of an injury, her enthusiasm was dashed and burnout …

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Enormo cast.
0:06.8	Yeah, Spiltiva is losing its edge.
0:10.3	Losing its edge.
0:12.7	The mandala is losing its edge.
0:15.9	No edge.
0:16.8	No edge?
0:17.4	More.
0:18.6	Five.
0:19.4	The kids are wearing them in France and in London.
0:23.6	I was there when Kinan Takahashi tried on the Mindala for the first time.
0:28.6	I said, man, that's a heck of a mustache.
0:32.6	I'll turn six.
0:33.6	I was the first one to tell the pad sniffers about the mandala.
0:38.3	Smells like skittles in here.
0:40.3	I've never been wrong.
0:41.3	I used to work in a climbing gym in 1997 in Southern California before most of you were even born.
0:48.3	The future has no edge.
0:52.3	I woke up naked on a crash pad underneath the Peabodies, only wearing a chalk bag in my mandala's.
1:01.1	Optimize performance.
1:03.2	Facilitating fluidity, minimal materials, sticky coated towbox. Supreme Corrupt.
1:11.6	No edge, more fun.
1:16.6	Listen, uh, where are you playing in town?
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