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Entourage #43 - October 2010
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If anyone is looking to hire a climber with a Ph.D. in economics, then Steve Maisch, 38, is your guy. He doesn’t expect a huge salary, but he does require plenty of time off to climb all across the globe. His first foray into climbing was in 1992 when a friend took him to Donner Summit, Lake Tahoe, California. He impressed himself by onsighting a 5.10c before his partner noted that the first 30 feet of the route was actually underneath the snow at their feet. He calls his climbing career “a struggle ever since; every time I break into a new grade, the climb gets down rated for some reason or another.” Perhaps that has led to Maisch’s semi-obsession with training. Lucky for him, his wife of seven years, Colour, puts up with him being a selfproclaimed training fanatic and constantly formulating training plans, one of which you can check out on page 68 in this issue’s extended Workshop. As he says, “If you’ve been climbing for a while, and you’re into it…then you should care about training.”
