Later when you are climbing, you know, high above your piece or on a really hard route,

you know, you're thinking less about, is this rope going to catch me or what's it feel like to fall?

That's not in your mind anymore.

You're focusing on what your true objective is, and that's climbing the route.

Episode 275, Dakota Waltz tells us about rock climbing in North Dakota.

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Morning light reflects bright off the white granite ledge as my pal Patrick is slowly pushing our rope up pitch four of the mirror wall of el capitan a local climber of immortal fame joins me on the large ledge we each

quietly feed and take rope while enjoying the morning view the valley down below he asks about the words

north dakota that are painted on the brim of my helmet, and I tell him it's where I come

from, the greatest state in the union. Of course, as any climber would, he asks if there's anything

to climb there, and I tell him, it's the third flatest state in the country, but a desperate

climber could probably find something worth their time out there. Living in the Midwest is kind of

like living in the

golden age of discovery for limestone choss piles, soft sandstone towers, and obscure boulders.

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