On Episode 55 of the Enormocast, I seek out mad desert climber Eric Bjornstad. Though confined to a care facility in Moab, Eric is as bearded and bright-eyed as ever. He recounts his years climbing with Beckey, writing guidebooks, and mastering the dirtbag dream in a pre-outdoor-lifestyle Moab few can remember. Other than his homie … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://enormocast.com/2014/04/episode-55-eric-bjornstad-od-original-dirtbag/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Episode 55: Eric Bjornstad- OD (Original Dirtbag)."</span></a></p>

The Enormocast: the climbing podcast

Episode 55: Eric Bjornstad- OD (Original Dirtbag).

With 35 years of climbing experience and going on 14 years behind the mic, Chris Kalous brings interviews, tributes, discussion, tears, and lots of laughs from the full breadth of the climbing zeitgeist. Rock climbing, bigwall (big wall?) climbing, alpinism, ice climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. If it’s climbing related, it’s here. In the words of Alex Honnold, “If you are a climber, you pretty much have to do the Enormocast.”