The place Did Margo Hayes Get Her Climbing Chops? Rifle, Her ‘Dwelling Crag’

Petzl calls Margo Hayes’ climbing fashion “poetry in movement.” However I believe that’s a crap description as a result of most poetry sucks, and Margo is so rattling good.

And one of the best climbing space on this planet to hone these capacities is likely to be her residence crag: Rifle.

The limestone energy manufacturing unit is Colorado’s most legendary sport climbing spot for a very good motive. Randomly formed holds jut from the slippery, cave-like surfaces at wild angles, plastered on routes that wander in all places.

So-called “three-dimensional” climbing and Margo Hayes go collectively like peas and carrots. See for your self on this semi-biographical clip. You’d even be proper to explain Hayes’ character as multidimensional: The Boulderite is way out of your typical rock jock.

“Truthfully, my reminiscences are my sister’s flip-flop getting misplaced within the river,” Hayes says within the video, laughing.

Effectively, that and climbing at The Arsenal, she provides — in any other case generally known as Rifle’s greatest stage.

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