Podcast appearances and mentions of chris weidner

Chris Weidner just sent his first 14c at the young age of 50 years old. Hidden beneath that spectacular achievement is a pyramid of climbing all over the world in many different styles, from FA'ing multi pitch 5.13 trad to summiting mountains in Alaska and Argentina. All of this started when he became member #112 at the first climbing gym in the US!You'll also recognize Chris' voice from his years as a commentator for US Nationals and Psicobloc competitions.SHOW NOTES:Chris' InstagramChris on The Green Mile (14c) by LT11Chris on the FA of Galmbers Fallacy (13b multi pitch FA) by LT11Kong Extendo Cheater DrawSupport the showSupport us on Patreon: HEREVisit our podcast page: HERESign-up with one of our coaches: HEREFollow us on Instagram: HERE

For those who've contributed to or read Alpinist over the last 18 years, Katie Ives needs little introduction. Ives started at the magazine in 2004. After reading the Chicago Manual of Style cover to cover, she took on the roles of overqualified intern and copyeditor. She became editor in chief in 2012, a position she held until 2022. Ives is regarded as a tireless researcher, and as a mentor to the many writers she collaborated with during her nearly two decades at Alpinist.  Katie has earned renown for her command of written language. Her book “Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein [REE-zen-stein] Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams” was published by The Mountaineers in 2021. It received a Special Jury Mention at the 2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition. Katie recently moved to Colorado to be closer to the American Alpine Club Library while she works on her next book.  In this episode, Katie takes us on a journey through her 18-year Alpinist tenure. She brings us to some of the imaginary peaks she  explores in her book, and the Flatirons looming outside her office window today. She laments all the books she left behind during her recent move West, and reminds us that not all answers can be found on the Internet. This episode is brought to you by The North Face. Alpinist Magazine Website | Instagram | Facebook Host: Abbey Collins Guest: Katie Ives Producer + Engineer: Mike Horn Photo by: Chris Weidner

Today on episode 43 I'm happy to have Chris Weidner, a long-time Colorado Front Range local, writer, husband, and father. This conversation is special to me for unexpected reasons. I hoped to interview Chris about his career as a writer, but what emerged was something far more interesting, and admittedly, brave on Chris's part as it relates to career and finances. Chris is shockingly frank in many aspects of this conversation in ways I couldn't have imagined. I really thank him for that, and I hope you will enjoy this truly fascinating discussion about his life, climbing, family, and career. Topics Discussed with Chris WeidnerChris and Heather's first child, Dallas, and the fascinating origin story of his name.The importance of being an all-arounder in climbing, and Chris's recent alpine ambitionsThe importance of partnership in climbingEarly jobs to support climbing in Boulder, COA transition to writing and tips for getting publishedFinancial support and the unspoken reality of financial security in climbing and related careersThe creative benefits of procrastination?Writing routines and balancing with the climbing lifeFirst ascent ambitionsFitting travel into a training and work scheduleAdaptations for a new parentClimbing with a significant other who is equally drivenTips for aging climbersThe common comfort zone blind-spots of performance climbersSo much more! Support this project: Buy Me a CoffeeSubscribe to the website: SUBSCRIBE ME!Show Notes and Links at Clippingchains.com

#VOHRADIO Exclusive with Apostle Michael Petro and Larry Ward, the founder of Political Media at Chris Weidner’s American Freedom Tour in Houston, Texas. Political Media, Inc. is a driving force behind the integration of new media and politics. Political Media has the unique advantage of combining the best minds in traditional political advertising and advocacy marketing with cutting edge internet, email, and mobile technologies.Their mission is to clearly and effectively communicate the benefits of the rights and responsibilities of liberty nationally and internationally. Connect with #LarryWard: https://www.politicalmedia.com Partner With Us: https://vohradio.com Merch, Books, Teachings: https://voh.church/shop Connect with #VOHRadio: https://instagram.com/vohradio https://twitter.com/_vohradio https://gab.com/vohradio To learn more about Michael Petro visit https://michaelpetro.com/Support the show: https://vohradio.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#VOHRADIO Exclusive with Apostle Michael Petro and Sheriff Mark Lamb at Chris Weidner’s American Freedom Tour in Houston, Texas. Mark Lamb was elected as the 24th Sheriff of Pinal County on January 1st, 2017. Sheriff Lamb oversees a county the size of Connecticut and manages nearly 500 employees within the department. His varied background was on full display when Mark was named one of the lead detectives on a multi-agency (Salt River PD, Mesa PD, DPS, ATF, US Marshal Service and the FBI) Federal RICO case that disrupted and dismantled one of the most violent gangs in the East Valley. As a result of this successful case, Mark received the Award of Excellence from the Arizona Gang Investigators Association. As a constitutional conservative, Mark has strong convictions and is courageous in fighting for the citizens he serves. Mark believes strongly in our Republic and our Constitution, he is a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights and the enforcement of all of our laws, including those that pertain to fighting illegal immigration, and he is determined to protect the rights and freedoms of the people whom he serves. The American Freedom Tour is about Faith, Family, Finances, and Freedom. Featured speakers such as President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Mike Pompeo, Kayleigh McEnany, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Dinesh D’Souza, Sheriff Mark Lamb and many others. Connect with #SheriffMarkLamb: https://www.sherifflamb.com https://americansheriff.com Partner With Us: https://vohradio.com Merch, Books, Teachings: https://voh.church/shop Connect with #VOHRadio: https://instagram.com/vohradio https://twitter.com/_vohradio https://gab.com/vohradio To learn more about Michael Petro visit https://michaelpetro.com/Support the show: https://vohradio.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris and Heather Weidner are a hardcore climbing couple, both with many 5.14s under their belt across multiple rock climbing disciplines. We talked about drink counting, New Year resolutions, current injuries, the steps to becoming a kneebar wizard, projecting tips, hard conversations, and balancing climbing goals with maintaining a healthy relationship.  Support on Patreon:  patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing  Show Notes:  http://thenuggetclimbing.com/episodes/chris-and-heather-weidner  Nuggets:  2:41 – How Heather broke her own finger climbing at Shelf Road, and being injured together  5:52 – Counting drinks  9:24 – New Year resolutions, goal setting, and the Green River trip  13:52 – Heather’s climbing origin story, her background in dance, and the choreography of projecting  18:48 – Chris’s climbing origin story, and being introduced to rock climbing and mountains  21:05 – Living in Boulder and maintaining roots in Vegas  21:50 – The art of becoming a kneebar wizard  29:35 – Philosophy of kneebaring, getting better vs. training, and beta tactics  35:06 – Tinkering with beta  38:35 – How Chris breaks down a new project, and training the rests  41:28 – Kneerbar training exercises  44:04 – How Chris broke his pinkie by kneebaring  45:44 – Sourcing kneepads, Send pads, and kneecap tape explanation   49:45 – Heather’s kneebar beta, and why women can handle pain better than men  51:35 – Go-to shoes for kneebars  53:20 – Adam Ondra is making kneebaring cool again  54:37 – Send pads, leg warmers, and man warmers  57:33 – ‘Gambler’s Fallacy’  1:03:18 – How Chris hurt his shoulder  1:04:38 – Balancing climbing together with climbing with other people  1:09:14 – Chris’s passion for climbing (and ticking boxes), and Heather’s love for projecting  1:13:11 – Expectations going into a hard project, and being ok with not doing all of the moves the first day (or several days)  1:16:12 – ‘Stockboy’s Revenge’  1:18:15 – “Ask Chris what it’s like for him to have Heather outperform him on his project?”  1:19:22 – Heather’s “bullheadedness” in projecting, and focus vs. adaptability  1:21:01 – Hitting rock bottom on ‘China Doll’, and addressing inner demons   1:23:28 – Getting mental coaching from Arno Ilgner, meditation, and therapy  1:25:23 – Heather’s meditation practice, and the flow state of climbing   1:26:53 – Breakdown of ‘China Doll’  1:30:23 – What Chris learned from ‘Gambler’s Fallacy’  1:32:53 – Heather’s mindset when tying in for a project burn, and how Chris’s projecting philosophy has changed  1:35:57 – Learning to adapt, and the power of letting go  1:37:04 – Why Heather is excited about bouldering  1:38:20 – Gratitude  1:41:17 – Kids and hard conversations  1:45:12 – Another decade of improvement  

Chris Weidner and Bruce Miller worked four years on a new free climb up the Diamond, the northeast face of Longs Peak in Colorado. The Gambler's Fallacy (5.13b/8a) is one of the hardest routes up this cold granite wall, which rises to over 14,000 feet or 4,300 meters. In this episode, Chris talks about the process and partnership that led to this beautiful new free climb. The Cutting Edge is presented by Hilleberg the Tentmaker (Hilleberg.com). This podcast is produced by the American Alpine Club. Photo courtesy of Jon Glassberg of Louder Than 11.

Episode 121 features Chris Weidner’s stories of being mentored in his youth by the legendary climber of the Cascades, Dallas Kloke.At 17, Chris was listed in a rock climbing directory for Christian climbers. One day, Dallas cold-called Chris form the climbing directory and Dallas arranged an alpine trip with Dallas. Chris was picked up in a rickety VW bus that was driven by none other than the 52-year-old Dallas Kloke. From that trip onward, Dallas and Chris developed a friendship, comradery and eventually it had the sentiments of a father/son relationship. On Chris’s climbing adventures, he felt compelled to write about his experiences. Early on in their climbing adventures, Dallas had encouraged Chris to pursue Chris’s compulsion to write about their trips. Over the years, Dallas and Chris would co-author articles in a local paper and eventually, Chris became a writer who has been published in several magazines like Climbing, HuffPost, The Daily Camera and more.Through the years, Chris would begin to climb beyond Dallas’s abilities and Chris would then lend his knowledge to help Dallas. It was wild to learn about Dallas and Chris’s dynamics and how they had evolved over their lives. Check out Chris’s new guidebook for boulder canyon in ColoradoThis is part 4 of the Dallas Kloke miniseries. Check out Part 1 to learn about Dallas through the eyes of one of his oldest climbing partners, Mark Desvoigne. Check out Part 2 to learn about the legendary climber of the Cascades through the stories of Scott Curtis. Part 3 tells of Dallas through the eyes of an experienced climber who one day would be a father with a very measured balance of family and adventuring into the mountains.

Episode 121 features Chris Weidner’s stories of being mentored in his youth by the legendary climber of the Cascades, Dallas Kloke.At 17, Chris was listed in a rock climbing directory for Christian climbers. One day, Dallas cold-called Chris form the climbing directory and Dallas arranged an alpine trip with Dallas. Chris was picked up in a rickety VW bus that was driven by none other than the 52-year-old Dallas Kloke. From that trip onward, Dallas and Chris developed a friendship, comradery and eventually it had the sentiments of a father/son relationship. On Chris’s climbing adventures, he felt compelled to write about his experiences. Early on in their climbing adventures, Dallas had encouraged Chris to pursue Chris’s compulsion to write about their trips. Over the years, Dallas and Chris would co-author articles in a local paper and eventually, Chris became a writer who has been published in several magazines like Climbing, HuffPost, The Daily Camera and more.Through the years, Chris would begin to climb beyond Dallas’s abilities and Chris would then lend his knowledge to help Dallas. It was wild to learn about Dallas and Chris’s dynamics and how they had evolved over their lives. Check out Chris’s new guidebook for boulder canyon in ColoradoThis is part 4 of the Dallas Kloke miniseries. Check out Part 1 to learn about Dallas through the eyes of one of his oldest climbing partners, Mark Desvoigne. Check out Part 2 to learn about the legendary climber of the Cascades through the stories of Scott Curtis. Part 3 tells of Dallas through the eyes of an experienced climber who one day would be a father with a very measured balance of family and adventuring into the mountains.

Chris Weidner began climbing as a teenager in the Pacific Northwest and is no stranger to being pinned on the summit of Mt. Rainier in a storm. The 45-year-old climbs 5.14 sport routes and continues to establish new free routes on the Diamond of Longs Peak and elsewhere. He has also written more than 300 articles related to climbing—for the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper, Alpinist and other climbing magazines—since about 2007. Weidner recently told Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz, "I think it's important to say that, along with these close relationships and the family feeling that climbing has given me over the years, I feel like it's also made me value lightheartedness.... And it's helped me realize that there's pretty much nothing in life worth stressing too hard about.... The other thing it reminds me of is just how important it is to be kind to people."

There are influential people and there are super influential people. In this episode, host Marco Santarelli interviews Kyle Wilson, the Founder of Jim Rohn International and KyleWilson.com among others, about the people that greatly influenced him in his business. He recounts how he met his business partner, Jim Rohn, and shares the most important things he has taught him. In the same manner, Kyle was an agent of other influential individuals including Denis Waitley, Chris Weidner, and Ron White; and he shares the common thing about these great people that made them who they are today. Introducing the book he co-authored with Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul, Kyle offers some great takeaways for those entrepreneurs who are striving to achieve. Download your FREE copy of The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing: http://www.NoradaRealEstate.com/FreeGuide/?utm_source=Episode_Summary   IF YOU LIKE THIS PODCAST we would love if you would go to iTunes and Subscribe, Rate & Review our podcast. This will greatly help share our podcast with others wanting to learn. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's game night at the Thundercling dinner table! Dave takes Fidi and return Sauce Night veterans, Lynn and Travis, through a couple of arduous trivia combat tours, the gang trying to hold it together after a few too many beers. First, Fidi hopes to take the lead in a lightning round of the Thunder Quiz. The contestants get 80 seconds to answer climbing trivia questions; some topical, some historical, and some embarrassingly personal. Dave is accused of nepotism, Fidi flexes a bit of muscle, and Travis begrudgingly surrenders ground. Between games the table erupts in some role playing of "climber wrongs." Spray, crowded crags, mansplaining, and wild crag dogs speed up the boozing and ratchet up the vitriol. It's what we wish we could say... Next, Travis and Lynn eye a rebound in a full round of Geo Party (we're not supposed to type "Jeopardy," for copyright reasons). The categories, "Oopsy Daisy...Chain," "Sharma Dharma," and "Holy Shit," bring some interesting answers and a couple of ridiculous stories. Travis comes out of the gate strong, Fidi shows some serious focus, and Lynn launches an improbable comeback. Thanks for listening to this curse-laden, booze-soaked, climbing ephemera-infused monstrosity! Maybe next time we'll skip the beer...but I doubt it. Although we'll have regularly scheduled programming up for the next couple months, tell us what you thought of game night! Want to pen an essay for Thundercling? Have an idea for the next Sauce Night? Get a hold of us anytime at thunderclingpodcast@gmail.com. We read and respond to every email we receive. Thanks as always to Ryne Doughty for the bad ass tunes. Finally, cheers to Chris Weidner, from whom I mined some questions here.

Is rock climbing headed toward a crisis of overpopulation? Chris Weidner weighs in with a unique perspective. 

Emily Harrington joins Chris and Brian for the 2016 USA Bouldering Nationals, where they filled a mind-bending 14+ hours of time behind the mics. Brian Runnells and Chris Weidner have been climbing for a long time. They've also been writing about climbing for a long time. Before his identity was finally sleuthed out, Brian was the one-man aggregating super-bot behind the website Climbing Narc. In a torturous twist, you can still visit the page, where the last post logged falls in April of 2015, reading, "Yes, I'm still alive..." In it's heyday, Climbing Narc rallied a massive following and was, at times, the most popular climbing website in the United States. Chris makes his living writing about climbing, no small feat. He's written for most of the major mags, all while logging a climbing-specific column for Boulder's The Daily Camera for 11 years. He and Jason Haas are just wrapping up Weidner's first guidebook effort for Boulder Canyon. In an interesting twist, the commentary "booth" brought the two of them together for Louder Than Eleven's broadcast of the 2015 Psicobloc competition. Like Madden and Summerall, they've worked together ever since. We talk about the experience of commentating for a sport like climbing and how the two of them got into the gig in the first place. We also chat about the famous blooper reels, any chances they'll be commentating for the upcoming Olympics, and how Brian finally contextualized the phrase, "Netflix and chill." Check out a blooper (or highlight??) reel here. Check out a 2014 Thundercling interview with the Narc here. Questions, comments, queries to write for Thundercling or join as a guest? Drop us a line at thunderclingpodcast@gmail.com. As always, thanks to Ryne Doughty for the rad tunes! Happy holidays, gang. Be safe, love hard, have fun! We'll see you all in 2019!!

Jamie Logan, the pioneering rock climber known for decades as Jim Logan, takes the Rare Air Talks stage at The Studio (Boulder) to share her story with journalist Chris Weidner. 

We preview tonight's (May 17) Rare Air Talks debut at The Studio (Boulder) with featured speakers Luis Benitez and Jamie Logan along with special guests Elyse Rylander, founder of OUT THere Adventures, and journalist Chris Weidner. More at DispatchRadio.com

Heather Weidner doesn't need an introduction, but this episode certainly does. When I recently watched a film made about Heather's ascent of China Doll, putting her into a small group of women to have climbed 14a on gear, I was left with a bad taste in my mouth. It seemed that given the current gender climate, the filmmakers, Jon Glassberg and Caroline Treadway, could have crafted a story that didn't depict Heather as so dependant on her husband, Chris Weidner, for not only support, but to also tell and show her how to climb the route. Shortly after, Heather wrote a blog post indicating that she felt similar upon seeing the film, and I knew I had to talk to her about it. The omissions, the contradictions, and the lessons.  You can find Heather online at www.heatherclimbs.com You can find Jon Glassberg and LT11 at www.lt11.com You can find Caroline Treadway at http://carolinetreadway.com/ You can see the film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZG7FTDM9U You can read Heather's blogpost at https://heatherclimbs.com/2017/12/08/the-china-doll-contradiction-behind-the-scenes-of-the-film/ You can find us at www.powercompanyclimbing.com We don't tweet. We scream like eagles.

It's been FOREVER since I published a podcast episode and I'm really sorry for the inconsistency! My surgery and ensuing weirdness has had me away from working very much at all, but I'm hoping to start putting podcasts up again on a regular basis. About Heather Alright, so this episode is with my friend, Heather Weidner (nee Robinson), who is a badass sport and trad climber, having redpointed Stockboy's Revenge (5.14b) in Rifle this summer and Must'a Been High (5.13c R) in Eldorado Canyon in Colorado soon after. She and her husband, Chris Weidner, are full time climbers living the dream, although Heather was a veterinarian for about 5 years before that. When I think of Heather, I think of a very sweet woman with a bullish determination to climb her projects. I also think of kneebarring, since she's a pro at it. Here's what we talked about: Her lack of fear and how that helps her climbing Whether kneebarring is "cheating" How her vegetarian diet affects her climbing Her longest (time) project and how she kept trying even when she felt defeated How she makes it as a full time climber Related Links Heather's site at www.heatherclimbs.com Heather's article for TrainingBeta, "Headstrong" Support The Podcast Check out the new Bouldering Strength and Power program for boulderers of all abilities! Our other training programs are pretty cool, too. Check 'em out on the Training Programs Page. If you'd like to sponsor the podcast, just email us at info@trainingbeta.com. Listen and Review on iTunes Link to the TrainingBeta Podcast on iTunes is HERE. Please give the podcast an honest review on iTunes here to help the show reach more curious climbers around the world ;) Music Intro and outro song: Yesterday by Build Buildings    Thanks for listening!