Wayne Barrett

Wayne began climbing in 1977 (age 13) with his older brother, Kyle, at the hometown crags in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In years prior, Wayne participated in numerous traditional sports (he excelled in baseball and was the team’s leading batter his final year) but climbing quickly became his passion. After reading Pat Ament’s Master of Rock, Wayne joined the high school gymnastics team and specialized in the still rings–this was the beginning of his interest in training for climbing. In 1979, Wayne teamed up with two other school-aged climbers, Jeff Batzer and Hugh Herr.