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Home Base / Tahoe City, California.
Activities / Rock climbing, backcountry skiing, trail running, Nordic skiing.
“I joke that my only superhero talent is my ability to sleep no matter where I am,” says the alpinist and guide Adrian Ballinger. Through years of expedition travel, he’s cultivated his ability to sleep in the most uncomfortable of situations, like, say, hanging on a portaledge off a big wall or in a wind-hammered tent on the edge of a mountain. Adrian can sleep even after the most stressful of days.
I’ve practiced clearing my mind at the end of a day. I put away everything, whatever it is—a problem at work, a bad performance while rock climbing—so I can start fresh the next day. You have to have a strong belief in the fact that no matter what happened, it’s OK how things played out.
International travel is a big part of Adrian’s life. “On every plane trip I take, I bring an eye mask and ear plugs,” Ballinger says. “The other thing I always have—even if I’m traveling to a tropical place—is a puffy Black Diamond jacket, which is my security blanket and my pillow.”
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