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April May & June in 5 seconds by @gracealiyapowell

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December 2025 by @gracealiyapowell

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Summer 🫶🏻 by @gracealiyapowell

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Have I told you, today, how much I love you?

@victoriakohnerflanagan magic by @gracealiyapowell

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Ten years ago I wouldn’t have believed this could be my life. I’d have called bullshit.

Pinch me.

The best weekend celebrating @merivera and @suehunt_ birthday weekend. by @gracealiyapowell

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The first time I went climbing, I was so exhausted and pumped that afterwards I had to sit in my car for an hour before I drove home. I remember watching people top rope and lead climb. I told myself I would never do that because it was too scary. A few months later I roped up for the first time and top roped a 5.8 outside with friends. It was exhilarating. I told myself maybe I could top rope- but I’d never lead climb. And then when I started leading sport that I’d never trad climb, never multi pitch, never etc etc etc. because I was scared. Terrified. Climbing did not come easily to me. I’ve never felt like an athlete. I am hard headed and stubborn. I grew up playing classical violin and had asthma. I’ve been reflecting a lot on the past 8 years of climbing- how my relationship to myself and my body has shifted- mental and physical resilience. It’s weird to put ourselves in situations where we purposefully experience fear, discomfort, humility. But I really can’t imagine my life without those moments, punctuating the pattern of my life with moments of clarity and presence. by @gracealiyapowell

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A bit of try hard caught on camera by @tiffany_nardico_photography last weekend. More soon. by @gracealiyapowell

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I blinked and here I am- pursuing the classic American dream; the house, the job, the degrees. I fear the yawning abyss of complacency, days bleeding together without moments of discomfort.

Last month I landed in Athens, my phone dead and a four hour drive stretching in front of me, full of hairpin turns with the aegean flashing salt below me.

I have had my head down- I’ve been sleeping.

And in these moments when we are confronted with struggle, fear, complexity, discomfort - I am more awake than I have ever been.

What are we, if not a collection of moments punctuated by struggle?

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” - KV

Photo by @victoriakohnerflanagan by @gracealiyapowell

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You know? by @gracealiyapowell

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Automatic reply: out of office

#girlswhoclimb by @gracealiyapowell

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Spring! The snow is melting (too fast) but the trails will be clear soon and my legs can’t wait! 💕❄️🌸 taken in Taos, New Mexico by @gracealiyapowell

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Still processing + integrating all the feels. Two weeks in Greece felt like a gift — time and space and connection and joy.

Thanks to @victoriakohnerflanagan for the shots and stoke.

#girlswhoclimb taken in Leonídio, Arkadhia, Greece by @gracealiyapowell

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