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Between a Rock: Val Hooper climbing Pinnacles’ Cuidado, a five-rope length ascent often brightly illuminated by the sun.

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Local teen climber Val Hooper finds mental balance by dangling from steep stones.

Halfway up the Cuidado face on the west side of Pinnacles National Monument, rocks break off under Val Hooper’s fingers. She’s sport climbing with her coach Charles Schrammel, and already a few hundred feet up ...

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