We ring in 2019 by intertwining climbing epics, purging, and small and large life events that result in learning, gaining confidence, and creating the life you want. This week’s storytellers make us wonder, what’s stopping you from creating the life you want?

Adventure Storytellers: Dylan Albrecht, Hannah Christie, Lindsay Putnam
From: Tacoma, WA, Gibsons BC & Bellingham, WA
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This week's featured adventure stories

Dylan Albrecht's Adventure Story:
Climbing Epics in the Enchantments on Mount Stuart

Dylan Albrecht leading the second crux pitch of the Great Gendarme, Mt Stuart

Dylan Albrecht is a 

• PCT thru hiker
• Climber
• Mountaineer
• Outdoor enthusiast

In this episode he details his experience climbing the North Ridge of Mount Stuart in the Enchantments near Leavenworth, WA.


Follow on Instagram @dchalkeys

These photos c/o Dylan Albrecht

Dylan's Trip Logistics for his Mount Stuart Direct North Ridge Climb 

• Group of 8 people, 4 climbed Mt. Stuart’s direct north ridge
  • One without an ACL and two with limited alpine experience!
• Grade V, 5.9+, 3,000 ft, 30+ pitches.
• Planned to climb in 2 days, 1 night. Was actually on the mountain 3 days 2 nights.
• 7 of the 8 in the group contracted food/water poisoning during or in the first few days following the trip. ​

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Hannah Christie's Adventure Story:
Learning to Climb

Hannah Christie, climber, poet

Hannah Christie

• Long distance runner
• Climber
• Writer
• Yogi
• Singer with Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir
• She's also come nose to nose with a bear with only a thin vinyl tent wall keeping them apart!
• Finally recovered from her two ankle injuries.

Hannah's story is about a first outdoor climbing experience with a climbing partner aka love interest.  In this episode we are excited to feature a poem Hannah wrote and recited about this experience and how she's since built on it to gain her independence, confidence, and to create the life she wants.

Follow on Instagram @the_hannanator

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Lindsay Putnam's Adventure Story:
Life Transitions Through Wild Experiences

Lindsay Putnam with Tephra the cute black dog with bright pink tongue.

Lindsay Putnam's Adventure Quote

My job was never meant to be fun. My job was meant to be something that I worked really hard at, and came home really stressed about and that’s why I went [to pursue so many outdoor adventures]. I left my work...

...I had left my career. I had left my boyfriend. I had left all the things that were really hard for me. But I had no idea where the hell I was going….I’m pretty excited about the final product that’s being created.

Part of Lindsay's story took place in some obscene wind on the Paso Virginia on the Circuito de Dientes de Navarino (area marked on the map below.) The circuit is being touted as the next Torres del Paine because of its pristine beauty.

Puerto Williams is the name of the largest village there and where Lindsay was able to make her way back after 3 days of bushwhacking along a river because her map was blown away.

Location of the Paso Virginia on the Circuito de Dientes de Navarino Island, south of Ushuaia.

Lindsay says, "The whole trip is rose-colored now, but I remember being terrified, and thinking the wind was going to leave me battered in the middle of nowhere, my emaciated corpse found weeks later by the next guy crazy enough to climb the pass that season. Somehow I still can't wait to get back to that island. Type-II fun 🙃"

Above photos are from Circuito de Dientes, the Sierra High Route where Lindsay cried and cried and finally decided to go to PT school, and one of the imperfect quilt that inspired the story Lindsay shared with us in this week's episode.

Follow on Instagram @lindsdelmundo

All photos provided c/o Lindsay Putnam.

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Come to the Woods. Silent Partner.
Morning Mandolin. Chris Haugen.
Wishful Thinking. Dan Lebowitz.

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