Roxanna Brock McDade

Age: 29, Years climbing: 20, Hometown: Flagstaff, AZ, Favorite product: MIURA VS

blog: http://roxannabrock.blogspot.com/

Do you clip bolts, plug cams, stack pads, or crush ice?

all but ice crushing...it's not that I don't like it, just that I don't like being cold...

How long have you been an athlete with La Sportiva?

for as long as I can remember...let's see, I've been climbing over 20 years, so something like 10 years????

What are some of your lifetime climbing goals?

Climb hard cracks...whatever hard may be for me at the time... okay and hard boulder problems too.

Do you have a claim to fame?

first female free ascent of Desert Gold 5.13- crack in Red Rocks, several first free ascents of old aid lines on the Rainbow Wall in Red Rocks -- climbing the crux pitches...and my partner was a boy...

Do you have any vices?

sugar, coffee, climbing

What makes you tick as a climber and in the real world?

new boulder problems, splitter cracks, good friends

What drives you to climb? The money? The groupies? The fame? What?

the feeling that nothing else in the world is there to bother me, it's just me n' the rock and mother nature

What is your favorite movie?

I just watched Inglorious Bastards and was thoroughly entertained.

Do you have any nicknames? Explain:

Rox, Roxy, Roxanne (not really psyched on that one)

What’s the longest you’ve gone without sleep? Why?

Can't remember -- I love to sleep and slip it in whenever possible.

If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Iowa - it's a weird name.

What did you have for lunch yesterday?

spicey spicey ginger chicken.

If you could hook up a thought monitor to your head, would you see pictures, hear words or would music be playing?

pictures definitely.

What really scares you about climbing?

When people die.

If your life was made into a movie, what would it be called?

from one extreme to the next?

Where would you live if it could be anywhere in the world?

Spain or Mexico

Have no food or have no gasoline?

I hate to say it, but gas.

Do you wish you had sexier feet?

YES!!!!!! but I never did have very great feet, even before climbing.