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Brittany Griffith

Facts: As a former McDonald’s employee, Brittany served an estimated 12,308 Happy Meals. She has more than 15 years climbing experience. She’s led 5.13 sport and traditional routes and vows someday to lead the gym’s 5.11c purple route! She obsesses over her garden and vacuuming and holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She’s climbed in Oman, Morocco, and Russia.

21st Annual Hueco Rock Rodeo Recap & Video
21st Annual Hueco Rock Rodeo Recap & Video
21st Annual Hueco Rock Rodeo Recap & Video
Brittany Griffith

“Hueco Tanks is the best bouldering in the world,” someone boldly posted on the encyclopedic climbing resource MountainProject.com. The best? Pretty strong words. I’ve been to a lot of famous climbing areas in the world and it was going to take more than a hyperbolic online endorsement to change my reservations (not the kind you…

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Deep Water Soloing on Mallorca
Deep Water Soloing on Mallorca
Deep Water Soloing on Mallorca
Brittany Griffith

My ADD extends beyond the fact that I can’t finish vacuuming a room before checking my email, watering a plant or making fried rice from leftovers. It’s present in my climbing endeavors as well. But I do recognize what it is about, the different disciplines I appreciate most. My favorite thing about trad climbing: the…

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Three Rooms: Brittany Griffith’s Foolproof Packing Method
Three Rooms: Brittany Griffith’s Foolproof Packing Method
Three Rooms: Brittany Griffith’s Foolproof Packing Method
Brittany Griffith

This may sound weird, but I love packing. When essentials are limited to two 50-pound bags – what a van can carry – a 40-liter backpack, or even just a carry-on, the things you think you need to take versus the things you actually do take is a fun game for me. My most recent…

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Post RAGBRAI: Riding the Bike Ride I Didn’t Train For
Post RAGBRAI: Riding the Bike Ride I Didn’t Train For
Post RAGBRAI: Riding the Bike Ride I Didn’t Train For
Brittany Griffith

I was actually pretty anxious about going on RAGBRAI. I didn’t really know what to expect. I travel extensively to the far corners of the world, but always as a climber, with the security of other climbers and knowing, to some extent, what the climbing experience will be like. Editor’s note: If you missed it,…

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Training for the Bike Ride I’m Not Training For
Training for the Bike Ride I’m Not Training For
Training for the Bike Ride I’m Not Training For
Brittany Griffith

Bleeding sunburns and limping – those were my earliest memories of people returning from RAGBRAI. What’s that? You don’t know what RAGBRAI is? (I’m just as shocked when people don’t know what RAGBRAI is as the Canadian who realizes that Americans don’t know who Terry Fox is.) RAGRBRAI is an acronym for Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across…

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Brittany Griffith Meets Two of Her Climbing Heroes: Part Two
Brittany Griffith Meets Two of Her Climbing Heroes: Part Two
Brittany Griffith Meets Two of Her Climbing Heroes: Part Two
Brittany Griffith

[Catch up with Heroes – Part One] We were in Manzanares el Real for less than an hour when a keen local showed up, in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon, driving 45 minutes to meet us and show us around. Which was great and very helpful since La Pedriza is an extensive labyrinth of granite…

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Brittany Griffith Meets Two of Her Climbing Heroes: Part One
Brittany Griffith Meets Two of Her Climbing Heroes: Part One
Brittany Griffith Meets Two of Her Climbing Heroes: Part One
Brittany Griffith

I don’t have many heroes – Julia Child, Nakano Takedo, Florence Nightingale… and Arnaud Petit and Stéph Bodet. If you haven’t heard of Arnaud and Stéph, just Google, “World’s Most Adventurous Climbing Couple.” From Morocco to Algeria to Venezuela to the climbs of Ceüse above their self-built house, they’ve done first ascents in more countries…

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Tortilla Español
Tortilla Español
Tortilla Español
Brittany Griffith

Here’s a recipe that every dirtbag should learn to make; it’s exotic sounding, yet relatively simple to make from basic, easy-to-find ingredients. Also, since it requires nothing much more than a fry pan, spatula, bowl, and plate, this one can be made in your van or campsite. I first became familiar with the ubiquitous Spanish…

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Confessions Of A Yoga Non-Believer
Confessions Of A Yoga Non-Believer
Confessions Of A Yoga Non-Believer
Brittany Griffith

It started off benign enough: Walker sent out an email to all the ambassadors inquiring who did yoga and would be willing to test out Patagonia’s new yoga line. Of course, I bristled at this. Yoga? That’s for girlfriends. I’m a climber, have a black belt, and have raced on the professional downhill mountain bike…

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Sicily Climbing Vacation, Part 2: Pasta Con Le Sarde
Sicily Climbing Vacation, Part 2: Pasta Con Le Sarde
Sicily Climbing Vacation, Part 2: Pasta Con Le Sarde
Brittany Griffith

Full disclosure: the following sardines and pasta recipe is not my own. And I know what you are thinking: “Sardines? Gross!” But have you read the fine print about sardines? Printed on the box of the Wild Planet ones I bought: “Ounce for ounce, sardines provide three times more calcium and phosphorous than milk, more…

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Sicily Climbing Vacation
Sicily Climbing Vacation
Sicily Climbing Vacation
Brittany Griffith

“Why would you come to Sicily to climb when you live in Utah?” the svelte Swiss woman asked in a barely detectible, yet posh accent. I looked at her blankly for a few seconds, wondering if she was attempting “second-language humor” or if she was indeed serious. “Uh, we don’t have overhanging tufas along the…

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Brittany Griffith’s Recipe for Exploding Freezer Beer Pasta
Brittany Griffith’s Recipe for Exploding Freezer Beer Pasta
Brittany Griffith’s Recipe for Exploding Freezer Beer Pasta
Brittany Griffith

We leave for Sicily tomorrow and I have to admit that despite new-route potential on 300-meter-tall Mediterranean seaside cliffs, I’m almost as excited to eat and drink wine. I read in the Lonely Planet guide that, “Most Sicilian dishes fall into the category of cucina povera (cooking of the poor), featuring cheap and plentiful ingredients.”…

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Brittany Griffith on Seeing Red, and Getting Over It
Brittany Griffith on Seeing Red, and Getting Over It
Brittany Griffith on Seeing Red, and Getting Over It
Brittany Griffith

I hung limp on the end of the rope with my forehead resting on the taut line. I felt my throat tighten. I hadn’t been this frustrated in a very long time. I realized a long time ago that grades were relative, but it seemed everyone here, 30-40 people, including a seven year old homeschooled…

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How Brittany Griffith Stopped Hating Surfing So Much
How Brittany Griffith Stopped Hating Surfing So Much
How Brittany Griffith Stopped Hating Surfing So Much
Brittany Griffith

JT and I are headed to Baja tomorrow to celebrate his 40th birthday. I totally suck at surfing and I’ve had a few close calls so I’m always anxious when we go on a “surf trip.” It seems we never go someplace mellow – Peru, El Salvador, Nexpa. Isn’t that like taking a 5.4 climber…

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Brittany Griffith on Climbing, Catering, Community and Quinoa in Algeria
Brittany Griffith on Climbing, Catering, Community and Quinoa in Algeria
Brittany Griffith on Climbing, Catering, Community and Quinoa in Algeria
Brittany Griffith

When JT and I were in the desert of Algeria, our Touareg guides, after preparing an elaborate four-course meal for the two of us, would prepare their own and then eat it from a single big bowl. They’d sit on the ground, in a tight little circle, each with their own spoon, sometimes no spoon…

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Zen and the Art of Rest-Day Laundry
Zen and the Art of Rest-Day Laundry
Zen and the Art of Rest-Day Laundry
Brittany Griffith

OMG I was so stressed out. I had a million errands to do before meeting Nancy at the climbing gym: post office… liquor store… vacuum bag store (yes, I have this special vacuum that I can only find bags for at one store in SLC)… Whole Foods… bank… the electronics recycling center… UPS… hardware store……

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The 48-Hour Dress: From a Wedding to a Climb in Chamonix
The 48-Hour Dress: From a Wedding to a Climb in Chamonix
The 48-Hour Dress: From a Wedding to a Climb in Chamonix
Brittany Griffith

As the sun heated up our little apartment, I drifted out of my dream and awoke to a bizarre scene: people sprawled all over the floor, futon and tiny twin beds…I could hear chatter in half a dozen languages, clinking plates and glasses… the faint smell of tobacco, espresso and butter… a marching band playing…

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Brittany Griffith’s Vacation in Croatia
Brittany Griffith’s Vacation in Croatia
Brittany Griffith’s Vacation in Croatia
Brittany Griffith

I had only just returned from Algeria, dumped the contents of my well-used Freewheeler Max into the washing machine and put everything right back in there before heading to Croatia. I only had 10 days for the trip, but it was so perfectly set up I couldn’t resist – Kate and Mikey would already be…

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Unusual Suspects: Finding a Backup Climbing Partner
Unusual Suspects: Finding a Backup Climbing Partner
Unusual Suspects: Finding a Backup Climbing Partner
Brittany Griffith

My springtime objective (okay, to be perfectly honest, it has been a dream of mine for a long time) of free climbing Zion’s Moonlight Buttress was quickly unraveling. My partner, Nellie, had spent the previous night projectile vomiting in a rental van. Puke everywhere—in her shoes, on her pack and on the rope. As Nellie…

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Brittany Griffith Remembers Her Larger-than-Life Friend
Brittany Griffith Remembers Her Larger-than-Life Friend
Brittany Griffith Remembers Her Larger-than-Life Friend
Brittany Griffith

Early spring means it’s desert season. Well, it does now. Fifteen years ago it meant belaying my boyfriend on his three-year sport-climbing project in the Virgin River Gorge. Now, I spend March and April weekends climbing sandstone splitters in the beautiful desert of southeast Utah. Back in the 1990s, I would burn away those same…

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Brittany Griffith’s Recipe for Her Secret-Weapon Spicy Peanut Noodle Thing
Brittany Griffith’s Recipe for Her Secret-Weapon Spicy Peanut Noodle Thing
Brittany Griffith’s Recipe for Her Secret-Weapon Spicy Peanut Noodle Thing
Brittany Griffith

“Remember that spicy, peanuty sesame noodle thing you make? We want that again!” requested Sue this past spring. Sue had allowed me to stay in her house in Yosemite West for no less than 37 weeks over the course of a decade, and although it had been a few years since I had cooked for…

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Climbing in Algeria: The Essential Clothes
Climbing in Algeria: The Essential Clothes
Climbing in Algeria: The Essential Clothes
Brittany Griffith

“March is a killer month in the Sahara. Temperatures rise and fall with such rapidity that the body has difficulty adjusting.” This sentence from the book I was reading (The Conquest Of The Sahara, by Douglas Porch) made me more anxious than the current kidnapping news. How was I to pack two weeks of clothes…

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Brittany Griffith and Zoe Hart’s Gypsy Van Chronicles: Part Two
Brittany Griffith and Zoe Hart’s Gypsy Van Chronicles: Part Two
Brittany Griffith and Zoe Hart’s Gypsy Van Chronicles: Part Two
Brittany Griffith

As we barreled down I-70 headed for Moab, I suggested we try Ziji on King of Pain tower, which is part of the Bridger Jack formation at Indian Creek. I handed her the Mountain Project topo and her eyes lit up. “Four pitches long and only two pitches of 5.12!” She seemed relieved—it wasn’t nearly…

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Brittany Griffith and Zoe Hart’s Gypsy Van Chronicles: Part One
Brittany Griffith and Zoe Hart’s Gypsy Van Chronicles: Part One
Brittany Griffith and Zoe Hart’s Gypsy Van Chronicles: Part One
Brittany Griffith

Like a father handing his teenage daughter the keys to the family car for the first time, JT worrisomely handed me Gypsy’s keys. Gypsy was the newest addition to our family, a big white 2010 Mercedes Benz Sprinter Van. I gently grabbed the keys while simultaneously executing the extremely athletic lunge required to get myself…

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