Podcast

Ep. 41 - Respecting Your Limits with JC Dubeau

Ice Ice Beta

on Feb 26, 2025

• 2 min read

If JC Dubeau is known it’s somewhat as a dark horse. Seriously, who is this guy?

🧊 About the episode

If JC Dubeau is known it’s somewhat as a dark horse.

Search for JC online and you won’t find any trip reports or beta spraying, but as a soloist with a selfie stick he has surprisingly good photos on IG for someone who likes to keep a low profile. JC is also an older athlete who doesn’t train or project yet he will likely send yours if you let him. 💪

So who is this guy?

In this episode, we chat about:

🧊 How there’s old and there’s bold, but there’s no old-bold climbers
🧊 His five goes rule and other principles to climb by
🧊 Climbing without a rope more often than with
🧊 Designing gear
🧊 And much more

🧊 Resources and links

You can follow JC on Instagram — for often glorious fisheye photos — at @jcdubeau.

🧊 Credits

📸: Cover photo courtesy of JC.

Intro music by Hannah Noelle Enomoto (thanks, sis!). This episode was edited by Andrew Salomone of salomonesound.com.

🧊 Sponsors:

A huge thanks to Aniiu Gloves and Furnace Industries for supporting this show!

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