On Episode 138 of the Enormocast, I sit down with my old friend, Heidi Wirtz. Heidi came up in climbing rock and ice in the hard-knocks backwater of Crested Butte, CO. She learned to take chances but never take money for climbing. After committing fully to the dirtbag lifestyle, Heidi nevertheless soon found herself wanting … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://enormocast.com/2017/10/episode-138-heidi-wirtz-the-long-game/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Episode 138: Heidi Wirtz – The Long Game."</span></a></p>

The Enormocast: the climbing podcast

Episode 138: Heidi Wirtz – The Long Game.

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.”