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July 8, 2025July 7, 2025

Tweener: Sam Stroh Settles In

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On this Tweener ™ episode of the Enormocast, we catch up with pro climber, Sam Stroh. When we posted the full-blown Enormocast with Sam in April, 2025, it had been gathering dust for nearly 9 months. Sam and I agreed that a catch-up was in the offing. In the meantime, Sam had been to Naranjo De Bulnes and Majorca in Spain, spent a couple months holed up in Bend, and a long trip to the Blue Mountains, Arapiles, and the Grampians in Australia. He’d also settled into the life as a full blown pro. Unfortunately, along with the rest of us, he found out a couple months after our first interview that teammate Mike Gardner had lost his life in Nepal. So yes, a lot had happened, and another talk seemed like a good idea.

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June 19, 2025July 2, 2025

Enormocast 307: Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski of Golden Shoals – Rock Toppers

On Episode 307 of the Enormocast, we are graced buy a drop-in concert and chat from Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski of Golden Shoals. Of the pair, Amy is the climber, but together they form Golden Shoals, an old time and folk duo formed over a decade ago with origins at Berklee. Amy and Mark dropped by the Enormo-headquarters to talk about music, climbing, but most importantly play a few tunes. Amy and I discuss the divergent and similar pursuits of the life of a dirtbag climber and itinerant musician. Mark and Amy together talk about inspiration and balancing life on the road with other interests. Amy and Mark play two climbing inspired originals and more. Its quite the hootenanny over here at the Enormocast. Enjoy!

Golden Shoals

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May 29, 2025May 30, 2025

Enormocast 306: Sarah Hueniken – The Aftermath

On Episode 206 of the Enormocast, I sit down at Banff Mountain Film with alpinist and guide, Sarah Hueniken. Sarah was an outdoor educator before she was a climber, and though she is known for ice climbing and dry tooling, she was a rock climber first. She even found Canmore, Alberta a little bleak and cold for her taste. Nevertheless, Sarah eventually set up shop in Canmore and pursued guiding as her career choice and first love. Almost as an afterthought to that pursuit, she became an accomplished alpinist in her own right and took to the emerging disciplines of mixed climbing and dry tooling. She became the first North American woman to climb M11-M14. But then, well into her advanced guiding career, a terrible incident occurred during an ice-climbing camp under her direction in 2019. An avalanche swept over a a guided group at Massey’s Waterfall and buried and killed Sonja Findlater. In the aftermath of that incident, Sarah found herself wallowing in guilt and trauma and the loss of her friend. Finally, she emerged from her despair to rejoin the climbing community, start guiding again, and form the Mountain Muskox organization to see others through the trauma of mountain accidents.