EP 279: Andy Raether — Bringing Routes to Life, How to Be Stronger at 40 than 20, & the Woods Board

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Steven Dimmitt

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 192 minutes

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Summary

Andy Raether is a prolific sport climber, boulderer, and developer based in Las Vegas, NV. He also owns a climbing hold company and created the Woods Board. We talked about his intro to climbing and making holds, bringing routes and crags to life, sending his hardest boulder (Midlife Crisis V14) at 40 years old, how he trains on The Woods Board, how to master terrible holds, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit. My guest
0:07.6	today is Andy Rayther. Andy is a very impressive and very prolific climber and developer based in
0:13.6	the Las Vegas area. He's climbed dozens of 514s up to 514D or 9A. He's bouldered up to V14. And he is 40 years old and actually climbed his
0:25.4	hardest boulder ever this year, a first descent of a boulder called Midlife Crisis that he created
0:31.5	V14. We talked about that in this episode. He's also bolted more than 500 routes and put up an estimated
0:39.1	1,500 boulder problems. And he's also the owner of a climbing hold company called
0:46.0	Menagerie climbing holds. And he is the creator of the Woods Board, which is one of the latest
0:50.9	light up training boards that he put together in collaboration with Daniel
0:55.4	Woods. It looks awesome. I haven't had a chance to climb on the Woods board yet, but I really want to.
1:00.2	It looks like a really great training board. And we talked about all the things in this episode.
1:04.6	We had a good, long chat. We talked about Andy's background, how we got into climbing and
1:10.3	hold shaping. We talked about developing. We talked about the Woods board. We talked about Andy's background, how we got into climbing and hold shaping.
1:11.3	We talked about developing.
1:12.8	We talked about the Woods Board.
1:14.4	We talked about training.
1:16.0	Andy has a great method for getting better at climbing on really terrible holds.
1:21.3	On the board specifically, I thought it was very clever, and I'm planning to implement
1:25.6	something like it on the tension board.
1:28.5	And he shared his go-to workout on the board for endurance training for sport climbing as well plenty of nuggets
1:33.8	in this one please enjoy andy raither cause cause cause no one can do it like we do it like saw you, like we do it, like we do it, like we do it, like we do it.
1:46.8	Like we do it.
1:50.0	Andy, I think the first time I saw you and became aware of you was in an old Deadpoint
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