Climbing: You climb at a very high level, yet you’ve never been to Rifle, four hours away – tell me a bit about keeping it close to home – being a “homeboy”!

Siegrist: I climbed my first 5.13 outside less than 2 years ago, so I still have plenty of high quality hard stuff to do right in my backyard. Plus the most compelling argument I have heard about driving on I-70 for hours to climb at rifle is 'Dude, there are like 100 5.13+'s!' - doesn't seem worth it yet, I like the Front Range.

Climbing: Have you traveled for climbing before? If so, where to? Tell me a little about that.

Siegrist: I have been fortunate to travel quite a bit and in the last few years I have also been climbing when abroad. I moved to Northern Thailand in the last half of 2006 and climbed a bunch in the Chiang Mai area with some really good friends of mine there. I also took a wild exploratory trip to Cambodia that Nov / Dec, we found some amazing boulders and also climbed a huge slab in the middle of nowhere- it was crazy. I have climbed a bit around the rest of South East Asia and a little in Europe also. My dad and I did a killer high altitude big wall in Peru a few years back in addition to some cool mountaineering there.