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Reaching your destination, you hop out of the car and charge the approach, super jittery and practically foaming at the mouth with excitement. Visions of ascending hard fill your mind. But by the time you get through a few warm-up pitches, you start to feel lethargic. Focusing becomes difficult; your motivation dwindles—the familiar feeling of bonking. But it’s your only day outside, so you charge ahead as best you can. As you get into the harder climbing, your hands cramp up and your technique falls apart. You feel a bit nauseous, and the top of the route is epically far away. You’re not about to let your climbing partner down, so you pull through the rest of the climb. You’re exhausted at the end of the day. It takes you a full day to recover, and that nagging overuse injury has really got your attention now. Perhaps the empty carbs and coffee combo wasn’t the best fuel. You decide to change your ways.

You’ve spent months planning for your epic big wall, vertical camping trip. It’s going to be amazing! You’ve managed to not get injured, you’re fairly fit, your partner didn’t bail, and the weather looks great. The stoke meter is at 110 percent. On day 1, you start up the route, estimating a 12-hour day of climbing, which slowly and painfully turns into 16 hours. The weather report the day before said 80 degrees F, which turns into 96 degrees. You hadn’t anticipated the heat absorption of the granite you’re attached to. You feel a bit of heatstroke—you didn’t put enough electrolytes in your water. It’s too hot to eat your allotted food. Your brain is foggy, your breathing labored. “Just focus. You’ll eventually get to the top of this pitch,” you tell yourself.