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Social Climbers

By Clay McNear

Published on September 20, 2007

Only superjocks and mental patients go bouldering in these temps, so if you’ve got the jones to dyno, hit the climbing walls at AZ on the Rocks, Arizona’s king of the fake mountain. Public “free” climbing is available from 3 to 7 p.m., but “free,” unfortunately, does not mean, “Cool, I don’t have to pay.”
Thursdays, 2007


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