Travels and Vagabonds
Finally, I was able to dedicate myself to getting out to WV and the New River Gorge for several consecutive weekends in a row. The ending results were a lot of fun with friends and “climbing associates”, sending of many new routes, and even putting up a couple hard ones for myself.
Continue reading “New River Gorge – 2019 Fall Season”
Buddy Blake was a bachelor, and everyone needed to have a reason to party. So it was decided that Blake would be getting a bachelor party at the New River Gorge. Blake-a-plooza was born.
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Ah yes, all of my previous commitments and trips were finally completed. I was finally able to reserve a weekend for me and some rocks. Being in the heart of summer, I had to be weary of the hordes at Summersville Lake and wondered what other climbing holes would be cool enough spend the day at.
Twall in November
Chattanooga has been in the back of my head since move down into the southeast. Fables and whispers are told of sandstone gorges that house massive roofs and overhanging walls, with splitter cracks in between. A spare weekend and good weather was all that was need to chase down these tells of rock.
Continue reading “Chattanooga – Twall to Sunset Park Sampler”
Again during the fourth of July, I ran away to the New River to climb. Loaded down with camping gear and too many racks, John Lee and I drove up in his robust red Focus aiming to reach the Kaymoor area early Friday morning.
Uranium Mines
For Jimmy’s Bachelor party, I flew into Denver a couple days early because my schedule allowed it. I was picked up by Mr. Paul Rizzo, who was gracious enough to sneak out of work and allowed me to crash at his house. Continue reading “Colorado to Santa Barbara via Moab”
Rocktober
The end October came around and it is the best time of year to get out and climb some rocks. I was able to coordinate my week of climbing to tag along with some friends from Colorado who also happened to be doing a climbing trip across America for the fall.
Continue reading “October 2013 Climbing Trip”
Dudes and Deserts
As a last ditch effort before I left Colorado and the west in general, there was talk of a Utah trip. Moab. Ben was leaving the state soon as well and he never really went to Utah with the focus on tackling more of the technical stuff. Then there was Bruce and Barnoff, who were also on the cusp of unemployment as well. With 4 Dudes and 9 days, a lot of stuff could happen. Continue reading “Moab, Utah: Back for the Climbing”
The Bastille
Inpromtu climbing trip up to Eldo, followed the climbing competition at City Rock. After throwing myself on hard sport routes in the gym it was great to do a classic trad route.