69 | Ordinarily Extraordinary w/ Evan Wisheropp

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69 | Ordinarily Extraordinary w/ Evan Wisheropp

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Today, we have the pleasure of sitting down with Evan Wisheropp, a part-time professional photographer with a full-time passion for climbing.
Evan's climbing journey began like many of ours-in a gym. From there, he explored various climbing disciplines until he found his true passions: desert offwidths and route development.
Evan began developing routes in Northern California back in 2014. Since then, he has created an impressive 4,775 routes, 522 pitches, and used 2,662 bolts. Over the past nine years, Evan has personally invested nearly $60,000 to develop the limestone crags of Northern California. Many of these areas remain largely unknown to the public, offering hundreds of cleaned, bolted classic routes with only a handful of ascents.
Evan's second passion, off-width climbing, takes him to Indian Creek and Moab, Utah, every year to tackle massive desert offwidth splitters. His latest project, The Cleaver, a 13b offwidth roof Evan spotted while scouting…. After several failed attempts, he handed the first ascent to the Wide Boyz but returned the next season to redpoint the route and film a short documentary about the experience.
This conversation is split into two parts. First, we’ll journey back in time to explore how Evan became the climber he is today. We’ll dive into three traumatic climbing accidents that shaped his progression, his relationship with trad gear, and his perspective on taking risks. Our conversation reminds us how dangerous climbing can be, but more importantly, how we can learn and grow from our mistakes and still recover a deep passion for climbing and the outdoors.
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Resources:
The Cleaver
• The Road To THE CLEAVE...
Evan Wish Photography
www.evanwishph...
A Climbers Guide to Northwest California
www.wolverinep...
Evan's IG
/ ch88to1jc8y

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@EvanWisheropp Ай бұрын

Thanks for the feature. I had a blast doing the interview. It was really nice getting to share some of my thoughts. Hopefully it inspires people to go have fun and be safe :)

@theclimbingmajoritypodcast485 Ай бұрын

Dude thanks so much for coming on the show! And again, I can't thank you enough for the time and effort you put in to making your shot and sound professional. Both parts to the episode are great and will be a benefit to the community.

@jonathanandrade176 Ай бұрын

cant wait for part 2

@andenmal6735 Ай бұрын

Looking forward to part 2. Don't know Evan personally, only by way of the "route developer' community. Didn't know about those accidents, but it really makes sense that it would influence the way he goes about bolting new routes. Route development is often a very thankless job that the majority of climbers don't even think about. Spending your own money and time to bolt routes and replace old corroded hardware. It's not glamourous but it is an essential part of the rock climbing that everyone else gets to benefit from. It's great that you interviewed Evan.

@theclimbingmajoritypodcast485 Ай бұрын

I was blown away at how many routes he has created! We feel honored to share Evan's story and are pumped you enjoyed the conversation. Thanks for being here.