Louder Than 11 caught up with Five Ten athlete Chris Schulte as he discusses life and climbing while crushing a few of his projects in Indy Pass.

The Ride with the Rep this March was a right nice time. Ronnie Jenkins and I cruised across Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado over the course of 21 days, doing shop clinics, shoe demos, a couple slideshows, and some great climbing at a handful of different areas. This quick video highlights some of our experiences and displays some of the scenes we came across as we travelled.

The 2012 Red Rocks Rendezvous came for me on the tail end of the Ride with the Rep tour that Ronnie Jenkins and I made- I was home for two days before packing up and heading down to Vegas for the following week. The days all kind of drift into an experience undivided after a time. I’ve been living in three separate time zones over the last month, never mind daylight savings. Back home now, I’m shoveling through piles of laundry, cleaning out the car, and trying to get the sprinklers working to water the greening tufts sprouting up...

Back home in Boulder, but not for long: two days, and I’m off again to Las Vegas for the Red Rock Rendezvous. I spent a full day in the house, save for a trip out to the store for breakfast... Crepes and coffee (home coffee!) to see Ronnie off for the next leg of his trip. After that rest day and the first full night’s sleep in over two weeks, I got to head out to a project up Boulder Canyon a ways with my broo GP Salvo. He and his lady Vanessa Compton were in town for a...

Durango was a blast as always, and it was hard to leave. We packed up around lunchtime and headed around the mountains for Telluride, the last stop on my part of the Ride, for a shoe demo at Telluride Gravity Works. This spot is a tiny little shop with a small wall and some exercise equipment right in the middle of downtown. It’s a good shop, one of those that carries good product, from climbing to snowboards to bikes- not packed with things, not a huge selection, but all the things you’d end up narrowing down to. A pretty...

Our quick stop in Albuquerque done, we headed north through skinwalker country towards Durango, arriving late, sleeping on the floor, up early for coffee and cold sunshine. It’s a relief to be back in the cool weather and thinner air, a relief to be back in a place I lived for so long, the place I started climbing.