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The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Episode 93: Armando Menocal – The Peaceful Climbing Warrior.

The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Chris Kalous

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

4.9 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 93 of the Enormocast, I hang with a guy who has spent his life protecting others and protecting climbing, Armando Menocal. An avowed weekend warrior, Armando used climbing to blow off steam from his day job as a human rights lawyer stemming all the way back to the anti-war movement in 1969. Armando …

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Enormo Cast.

0:03.4

Hey folks, did you know that Black Diamond makes ski gear?

0:08.8

Skis, poles, skins, boots, gloves, pants, jackets.

0:12.0

Hell, they even make this thing called the Jet Force, which will

0:14.9

float you to the top of an avalanche, then serve you brandy while you wait for help.

0:19.8

But who cares?

0:20.8

That shit's crazy.

0:21.8

We're climbers, and it's still climbing season somewhere, right?

0:25.8

In the collective and normal conscious, it's the climbing gear that matters, the

0:30.0

beaners, the packs, the Camelots. I mean the camelots. Are we still arguing about that? They're the best.

0:37.0

So let's keep climbing people and not go gently into that good night.

0:41.0

But rage, rage against the dying of the autumn light. Little Dylan Thomas

0:47.0

for you there people, you're welcome. Yeah, you can go skiing, and skiing is pretty fun, but

0:52.2

climbing's better. Hell even ice climbing

0:54.8

has to be better than bobbing around in an avalanche. But that jet force thing is

0:59.4

pretty cool. So check it all out at black diamond equipment.com and telling that the normal cast sent you

1:07.2

listen uh where you playing in town? Are you doing the uh in normal dome whatever it is it's terrific.

1:13.3

Oh yeah it's big place that's a big place.

1:16.0

He sold it out.

1:17.0

How the state has to say.

1:18.0

We really should.

1:19.2

Look, you better get up there before you panic.

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