You are listening to the Enormo cast.

The Enorma cast invites you to join former guest in front of the show Luke Mehal

on his personal journey from the stifling confines of life in the Midwest to the wide open spaces of the great American

West.

In his new book, American Climber, Mejal lyrically recounts his discovery and love affair

with climbing the desert and freedom.

Freedom! If you're wondering where all the soul climbers have gone, that look no further than Luke

Mejal's American climber, available at Amazon.com or get in touch

with Luke himself at climbingzine.com. I'm sure he'd love to chat.

Below these past few months, I've been trying to get you the listener to support

the Norma cast by buying new climbing shoes from Sportiva. But I realize that many of

you have some trot and true kicks, filthy held together by Shugu,

and they'll probably have to pry them from your cold, gnarled calloused feet.

When your heart finally gives out on you while you're soloing the

normodome or whatever. But did you feel that chill in the air this morning, that coolness

that'll start to draw the masochists from their dark dry tooling layers? Well, Sportiva makes mountain boots, fruit roots, or if you're a Hahnold, cramp on ready sneakers, to get you up the gnarliest, icious project, your semi-dormant limbic cortex has dreamed up over the happy days of summer.

So it's probably time to start shopping for those, if rock climbing is just too fun for you,

and they've got trail running shoes for your pre-Massicism,

masicism. So if you want to support the Norma-cast, but you don't have any need

for finely crafted high-performing climbing shoes, then go check out their other wares sportiva

or your nearest outdoor retailer the enormous cast in sportiva like two bros and a

bivisac. Listen, where are you playing in town?

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