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Sugar Daddy by Steve “Crusher” Bartlett

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I’d been driving past this rock, near Hanksville, for years. It’s just begging to be climbed but looked impossible without drilling a ladder of large holes for spikes (rebar? footing stakes?) of some kind. And what kind of fun is that? The “rock” appeared to be too soft to nail, too crumbly to bolt. There…

Sugar Daddy by Steve “Crusher” Bartlett

Another installment of Steve “Crusher” Bartlett’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Choss” photo essay from The Climbing Zine, Volume 11.

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