Transient Connections

I spent the weekend part inside the future of my past. The Pacific Northwest was my first landscape of adulthood—it was where I learned how to be an independent woman and climber set free by the snowy peaks and the soft earth. Back in the beginning, I lived in Bellingham, WA. I came out there in 1996—a time in my life when I believed that the only way to live was to get as much climbing as possible. I would cross the boarder into BC whenever I could to go rock climbing at Squamish. Climbing in WA was good—great even—but there was nothing like packing up my truck and crossing the border into Canada to make me feel like I was a grown up....

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