Chris Schulte

climbing, writing, pics, clips Black Diamond Equipment, Five Ten, The North Face FrictionLabs, ClimbTech

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The sun come out just before it drops into Mexico. Still stormy down in #huecotanks. #texas #mexico #southwest #sunset (at Hueco Tanks State Park)

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My visits to #indiancreek were definitely the best parts of #2015 for me, though some visits did have a share in the trials as well. It was a weird year... It's strange to look back on a whole year and wonder what happened; it can seem like so much and so little happened. It can seem like climbing and life interchange, substitute, and prioritize over one another. It can seem like one is so much more real than the other. It seems like a whole new chapter, a new level of practice now. It's not just play, or love, or dedication... It's also something you can be stuck with. It can be a burden, or an addiction, if you let it. But, if it's your Way... Then yeah, sure. You will live life through that Way, and they will interchange, and merge, and magnify, reflect, obscure, and illuminate one another, and hopefully, you. Here's to working to abandoning the Point in 2016. Abandoning priority, and just Doing What Needs Be Done, which is all-inclusive. Here's to balance. #levelunlocked #powerup #desert #climbing #bouldering #life #balance #holdfast #carryon @blackdiamond @fiveten_official @frictionlabs @thenorthface @climbtech @sublimeclimbing

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During the last 24 hours in the state of Texas, it's been sunny and 80 degrees, and there has been heavy rain, up to 8" of snow and counting, hailstorms, ice that has closed highways, thunderstorms, a handful of tornadoes, and an earthquake. #texas #weatherornot

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Christmas owl. #texas (at Seguin, Texas)

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Geez.. Good morning, West Texas. #desert #texas #hueco #solstice #sailorstakewarning #westmountain #southwest (at Hueco Tanks State Park)

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Mouse house. #hueco #texas #desert (at Hueco Tanks State Park)

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@captainwangles makes short work of the American classic, Power of Silence, a #hueco benchmark by our hero @fred_nicole. #texas #bouldering #classic (at Hueco Tanks State Park)

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Another angle to the #visionquest arête at #indiancreek #utah. Keeping access open to areas like this is key; I don't know what I'd do without them. If you're not already a member of the Access Fund, follow the link in my profile to sign up. Your participation helps to make your voice heard, and makes us all more of a group, an interest, a lobby. We're all climbers, and collectively we've got some mass... Whether you're a trad climber, alpinist, bolt-clipper, pebble wrestler, or hill walker, get on board. It really will make a difference. Think of it as forming our own political party. Imagine the climbing community having the pull of the ATV, hunting/sport shooting crowd, or cycling. There are more of us than ever, and getting together is what makes things happen. Check the link in my profile, and join up today. @accessfund @blackdiamond #rockproject #committothepact #desert

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10-20 #hueco #desert #southwest #texas #haboob

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#crackclimbing #indiancreek #bouldering #utah #canyonlands #southwest #desert @blackdiamond #liveclimbrepeat

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A pretty great moderate that gained me some stitches last spring.. Cool to come back to do Shindig. Thanks to @ebomba and @cody._.jay for the first aid :D I have a great kit in the car now. #utah #indiancreek #bouldering #canyonlands #southwest

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Another #fa from #indiancreek: Boy with Apple, at the top of a small side canyon. I've looked at it from the road for ten years; it was/is Good! #visionquest #utah #canyonlands #desert #slopers #compression #sandstone #whatsthemeaningofthisshit?! #boywizapfel @blackdiamond @fiveten_official @frictionlabs @thenorthface @sublimeclimbing @climbtech #liveclimbrepeat

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Relief. This one required some strategy: a long haul with lots of big pads: big ups to brothers Devin and Eli; I couldn't have done it without you. Visionquest arête, #indiancreek #utah. #fa #compression #canyonlands #highball #climbing @blackdiamond @fiveten_official @frictionlabs @sublimeclimbing #visionquest

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Four down, one big one to go. Fortunately, I have my best bro coming out to help haul a bunch of pads a long ways up an icy canyon to get after this thing, another stunner that's been on my mind for about a year... It is OUT THERE! #indiancreek #visionquest #backofbeyond #desert #utah #canyonlands #climbing #compression #highball @blackdiamond @fiveten_official @frictionlabs @climbtech @sublimeclimbing

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I thought about this one for the last year. Thanks to my best bro and his unwitting friend, now also a bro, since to make this big a walk with all these pads makes you a bro. Double toe-hook surfing up a howling doberman's head. Think I'll call it Rot Weiler, which means something like red village; this seems appropriate for out here. Happy Turkey Day, everyone! I'm giving thanks for new lines, new friends, and a total news blackout for the last week. @blackdiamond @fiveten_official @climbtech @sublimeclimbing @frictionlabs @thenorthface #fa #indiancreek #southwest #utah #canyonlands #bouldering

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#tbt to the #fa of Airwolf at #indiancreek. Here's to all the folks who didn't ask how hard it is, and just went up there and did it. Because awesome. Headed that way soon, and the weather looks absolutely splitter. @blackdiamond @fiveten_official @frictionlabs @climbtech @sublimeclimbing @thenorthface #utah #canyonlands #southwest #desert

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Our thoughts are with you, Paris, and all of France.