43 Preview - Gear Giveaway + Cirque of the Towers Traverse
In this episode, the Ground Up crew flips the script by announcing it's first ever GEAR GIVEAWAY before Robert interviews Ari about his recent exploits in the Winds tackling the Cirque of the Towers Traverse with Mike Palmer, who you may remember from Episode 1 of the podcast.
Located in Wyoming, the Wind River Range is roughly 100 miles long, boasts some of the highest Rocky Mountain peaks outside of Colorado and provides a spectacular arena for several monster linkups, including the iconic Cirque of the Towers Traverse, a roughly 20 mile alpine traverse across the Cirque's 11 major peaks including a lap up the Wolf's Head on one of North America's 50 Classic Climbs.
During the interview we cover everything from Ari and Mike's tactics and logistics, the pros and cons of climbing highly exposed routes by headlamp and all of the inevitable type 2 challenges that come with a sufferfest of this magnitude, including a last minute weather audible before they even got to the trailhead at Big Sandy.
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