Team Trango
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Quinn Brett:: Born in Minnesota... Quinn began climbing casually in 6th grade with my her best friend, who’s dad had a rope and some knot skills! Quinn fell in love. She actually joined the local Civil Air Patrol because they had weekend climbing outings. During college Quinn moved to Estes Park, Colorado to work at the YMCA of the Rockies. That summer, as a 20 year old, she had her first handful of traditional leads at Lumpy Ridge. In the fall, she begrudgingly returned to finish her senior year at the University of Minnesota. Returning to Estes immediately after graduation, and she now calls Estes Park and Colorado home. Quinn loves running and soloing the many ridges and climbs in her backyard. Thriving on moving fast, sunshine, and a lovely IPA at the end of an adventure filled day, Quinn seems to sleep best after constantly moving for 12 hours! This year she started her own company, fusing rock-climbing, yoga, and adventures. In the fall Quinn makes an annual pilgrimage to Yosemite Valley and Zion National Park, generally chasing the warmth with swollen hands. Aside from climbing, Quinn is a licensed teacher in the state of Colorado, and guides all ages on climbing, hiking, and canyoneering adventures throughout the western United States. Passionate about the wilderness, Quinn absolutely loves infecting others with that passion! |
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Chris Barlow Chris has been climbing since age 11. Without doubt, the pursuit of climbing has been the single greatest driving force in his life. Chris has traveled extensively to climb, from North Carolina to California, Washington to Texas, British Columbia, Mexico, and the Cordillera Blanca of Peru. He loves nearly every aspect and challenge of climbing, from bouldering to remote alpine big walls, with a special love of hard traditional climbing. Chris loves the complex challenges trad climbing offers: having the strength to do the moves, the ingenuity to protect the pitch, and the focus to manage the risk. Recently, Chris has become more interested in the creative aspects of climbing with an ever growing love of exploring unclimbed terrain, whether it’s bolting new routes at a local crag or pushing a new line up a remote bigwall. Professionally, Chris is a high school teacher. While his main subject area is English, he has been fortunate enough to work in schools where he also can share his passion for the wilderness and climbing with students. Ultimately, Chris thinks that climbing is about having fun with good people, sharing the common challenge of pushing past our perceived limits and exploring new possibilities. |
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Dan Brayack Dan is a climbing photographer, athlete, route developer, author and publisher based out of Charleston, West Virginia. His local climbing areas are the New River Gorge and Red River Gorge, though he travels throughout the East and West coast in the pursuit of excellent climbing and bouldering. Dan has been climbing for about 15 years and has focused primarily on onsight and flash climbing. In the past few years, Dan has been developing sport and traditional routes at the New River Gorge and specifically the Meadow River. He has developed over 100 routes from 5.7 to 5.12d. Dan has authored the Coopers Rock Bouldering guidebook and is currently publishing both the Rocktown Bouldering Guidebook and the Grayson Highlands Bouldering guidebook. In his spare time, Dan enjoys course setting at his local climbing gym in Charleston and a handful of other climbing gyms in West Virginia, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Dan’s photographs and writing have been published in all of the major climbing magazines including Rock and Ice, Deadpoint Magazine, Urban Climber and Climbing Magazine. |
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Erica Lineberry A lot of people wouldn’t think that babies and climbing are lifestyles that can co-exist, but Erica Lineberry is living proof that it can be done successfully! Erica first tied into a rope back in 2006 and has been chasing natural highs on a mountaintop ever since. Her biggest, most exciting adventure to date began in 2010 – motherhood. A firm believer that starting a family doesn’t mean the end to adventure, Erica climbed hard throughout her entire pregnancy, faithfully “toprope-sending” at least one 5.11 every week until her little Cragbaby made his appearance. Back on the sharp end 4 weeks post-partum, Erica remained committed to pursuing the sport she loves, this time with a ropegun-in-training. Ironically enough, she’s not only logged more days on the rock per season than ever before, but is climbing a full number grade higher than her pre-mom days. Erica’s love for rock is all-inclusive, as her favorite aspect of climbing lies in the wide variety styles, ethics, and disciplines that can be found in the sport. Born and bred in North Carolina, she has a deeply rooted appreciation for wandering gear routes established from the ground-up, and certain times of year she morphs into one of those pebble wrestling pad people types. But after a few trips up to the New and the Red, Erica quickly found her true climbing passion – climbing as hard as she can with nothing but a handful of quickdraws. Realizing that it’s only a matter of time before she’ll be toproping her little guy’s warm-ups, Erica’s main objectives are to continue making priceless family memories at the crag and wrapping up her Central NC guidebook project. But sending upper 5.12 this year would be nice too… |
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Mark Anderson Mark is an “all-around” climber, having climbed on four continents, established numerous first ascents, freed El Cap, summited Denali, red-pointed 5.14c and on-sighted 5.13b. Recently, he’s been focused on difficult sport routes, boulder problems and single-pitch trad lines. Enthralled by the complexity of our pastime, Mark is obsessed with unlocking new ways to overcome the physical and technical challenges climbing presents. Mark loves contemplating, developing & testing new methods of training for rock climbing and is currently working on a book on the subject. In 2011 he reached new levels of climbing success, completing the hardest redpoints and onsights of his career, in addition to establishing the first 5.14 routes at Shelf Road. However those feats don’t hold a candle to the joy of welcoming his first son Logan into the world in January 2011. Mark enjoys climbing at all of the Colorado Front Range crags, including The Monastery, Eldo, Clear Creek, the Flatirons, and Shelf Road. His favorite crags to travel to are Rifle, Sinks Canyon, Wild Iris, Smith Rock, and the Red River Gorge. |
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Amy Ness Born and raised in North Dakota, Amy discovered a passion for climbing in her 20’s. Throughout college her love for scaling rocks grew and really hit high gear once she moved to California. Exploring new places and putting up first ascents on big walls are what Amy really loves. Staying on walls for days, hiking in and out loads of equipment, waiting out storms, and doing a little bit of suffering is what Amy is all about. Along with her climbing partner (Myles Moser – see below), Amy has put up several new Grade V and VI climbs in the Whitney Cirque over the last couple of years. |
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Myles Moser A lifelong Californian, Myles knew from an early age that he wanted to climb. In fact, as a kid his bedroom walls were plastered with posters and photos of climbing legends. Family trips to nearby Yosemite only strengthened his interest in all things vertical. By age 19, Myles had remodeled a 72 VW Buggy to help him reach all the climbing destinations he was obsessed with. Along with solar panels and insulated curtains, the Bug even included a removable steering wheel to increase sleeping space! Climbing high on terrain nobody has ever climbed is Myles passion and he has his eyes set on some of the biggest, baddest walls in the world for future adventures.
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