A soggy Monday morning in this corner of the PNW warrants a moment to get the head out of the sand. With eyes wide open, sand free, and two cups of coffee down, I am thinking of gatekeeping. Which, after a few false starts Googling terms like “backcountry skiing and gatekeeping” looped me back to…
Mindsurfing Quickie Mart Touring Beta
#wearenotgatekeepers
Bend’s best beta for touring info wallpapered on the US Market windows. Find it on NW Albany st.
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While I typically only trust vice stores that have 15 year old Monster Energy ads in the windows, who doesn’t love blown-up aerial mountain photograph!
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Finally, something to fill the gap that Fatmap left
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My favorite form of gatekeeping is mountain project comments on 5.9s, where middle aged+ men puff up their chests about how hard this climb was in the 80s or 90s before climbing took off or blaming broken holds as the reason they had to take instead of their waning fitness.
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Ryan Griffiths, somewhere cold. Photo: Aidan Whitelaw
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