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Proper Nowhere
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Focus on Your Ability
Chasing Down a Feeling
Northwest Boulderfest 2016
Psycho…pathetic
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January 27, 2019January 28, 2019 by Brittany Goris

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After spending this week focusing on being a professional climber in Italy, I can't wait drive my dear van straight to Indian Creek to be an unprofessional dirtbag. I wouldn't be me if I weren't both of these things things. Cracks are calling and I must go. Who else will be there!?

In this moment I was looking up towards a beautiful highball crack, but I've spent most of the past few days instead looking up to a crew of some of the best climbers in the world at the @lasportivagram Trad Climbers Meeting here in Valle del Orco, Italy, not because they are strong or talented, but because they are humble, and passionate, and kind. I came here knowing no one and feeling like a very small fish in the biggest possible pond, wondering how I ever got invited to join the company of these athletes. A few amazing meals, trad lessons for the sport climbers, dance parties, and TC Pro discussions later, I'm now leaving having made many new friends, learned a ton about both climbing shoes and European culture, and found renewed inspiration to step outside my comfort zone as a climber, as a traveler, and as a human who's secretly very afraid of just as many things as everyone else on the planet. I'm deeply humbled, honored, and grateful to @lasportivagram and everyone else for believing in me both this week and throughout my life. Good shit my friends.

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