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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.-Chuck Palahniuk Angie getting up close on "Rock Bottom" V9 at The Arch on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Athlete: Angie Macabeo @sh0rty_a Photographer: Sean Amore @pics_amore _________________________________________________________ #gravitysvictim #girlswhoclimb #outdoorwomen #sheadventures #girlswhocrush #mountaingirls

If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. "Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover.-Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life _________________________________________________________ Athlete: Logan Schmidt Photographer: Jesse Degani @jesse.degani Location: El Potrero Chico, Hidalgo, Mexico _________________________________________________________ #gravitysvictim #climb #climbing #sportclimbing #ropeisdope #tradisrad

Good weather, good beer, good whiskey, good grub and questionable skill & abilities mixed with good friends; well that's just good times with dope sends, and possibly ER visit.-Anonymous _________________________________________________________ Athlete: Iliana Hernandez @123kiliana Photographer: Magdalena Zimmermann @maggie_422 Pressure drop | Box Canyon | Socorro, NM _________________________________________________________ #gravitysvictim #girlswhoclimb #womenrockclimbing #outdoorwomen

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.-Paulo Coelho _________________________________________________________ Athlete: Claire Bukowski @claire.bukowski Photographer: Todd Bukowski @tc.bukowski Hueco Tanks, El Pas Texas _________________________________________________________ #gravitysvictim #huecotanks #bluewaterropes #skratchlabs #staticclimbing

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.-Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go! _________________________________________________________ Photographer: Jesse Smalling @noshirt808 Athlete: Allison Gordon @alli__g _________________________________________________________ #gravitysvictim #yogaslackers #slacklife #outdoorwomen

I thought how, with the peeling wave as an ideal of perfection, the surfer's object of passion becomes the very essence of ephemerality-not a thing to be owned or a goal to be attained but rather a fleeting state to inhabit. So much more of my time, after all, passed in the dreaming and searching than in the actual riding of waves; so much more time spent driving the coast and floating between sets.-Daniel Duane ___________________________________________ Athlete: Lily Dahlhauser @lilydeeeee Photographer: Eizhalle Luyon "Izzy" @Vixenvermin Mayfair Skatepark San Jose , CA ___________________________________________ #gravitysvictim #skateboard #girlswhoshred #caskateparks

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.-Ryan Higa ________________________________________ Athlete: John Fischer Photographer: Drew Leiterman @drewmagoo66 _________________________________________________________ Riverside crag near Yangshuo in China : 7c+ A wicked climb in a unreal setting! #gravitysvictim #climbchina

The purpose of construction is to make things hold together; of Architecture to move us.-Le Corbusier Also give us something to climb when we can't get to the crag.-GV® _________________________________________________________ Athlete: Halim Moulay @hvlim_sivm Photographer: @liferkilarbi Roubaix (North France) #gravitysvictim #france #buildering