Once Upon A Time in the Southwest

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On Episode 309 of the Enormocast, I reconnect with climber Anna Hazlenutt. Anna has built a career around her nom de plume (birth name Hazlett) starting out as an influencer making fun climbing based videos and evolving into a serious and skilled climber. Anna specializes in technical slabs and vertical rock, often tossing in a little spice like on her ascent of Once Upon a Time in the Southwest. Though Anna says that she often climbs scared, she’s found a way to harness that fear in unique and powerful ways. On this installment with Anna, we run down her recent trip to Madagascar with Matilda Söderlund, other climbing adventures since her previous appearance on the show, and her motivations as a climber and professional.

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On Episode 237 of the Enormocast, I catch up with freshly minted trad climber, Anna Hazelnutt. Anna cut her teeth on high-ball slab boulders in So Cal, but then turned to sport climbing in Catalunya. After a great season in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, she traded fun in the sun for windy and rainy on the UK coastline where she sent the storied trad-slab, Once Upon A Time in the Southwest (5.13 b/c R), marking Anna as one of the highest achieving trad climbers in the world. But there was more to the story as Anna had only previously ever climbed up to about 5.9 on gear. Anna is also part of a cadre of young women climbers whose renown comes partially from a strong social media presence, with all its ups and downs (AKA dickhead dudes).

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Enormocast 309: Anna Hazelnutt (Hazlett) – A Positive Influence