Bucket list of climbing the Winds. Couple day backpacking trip up into the cirque of towers. Adventures at attitude, big days out amongst the rocks.
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The Linville Crusher
Tim and I needed to pick a fun endurance challenge for this year and neither of us had done the crusher, nor did we know anyone else that had.
Things worked out with the cosmic alignments of personal schedules, the peregrine falcons had adjusted their nesting preferences, and weather systems seemed stable for once.
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Small weather and time windows opened up and I joined Tim for his kick off not having a job any more. I headed out of charlotte in the new truck and made as far as London, Ky, where I slept mediocrely in a Walmart parking lot.
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Trip to Portland
Spent 1 week traveling around the Portland and Greater Area. From the high deserts to the wet coast lines. Breweries, trees, salmon and rocks.
Dog Dayz Bouldering 2018
Dog Dayz 2018 – Moore’s Wall Bouldering
Hot and humid southern climbing, one would not normally think of heading up to Hanging Rock State Park for some crimping on some boulders. Jared putted together a awesome events, which gathered groups of climbers around the NC area to hang out, loose some skin, and fail around in the woods.
The drive up in the morning was nice and ominous, clouds were sitting low and moist was hanging like wet sponge.
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Iceland Trip
Grandfather Mountain Hike
We shelled out the $40 and decided to cross off visiting the tourist section Grandfather Mountain. As we pulled in, we sadly noticed that we were missing the Scottish Clan Meeting next door. We drove up the winding road passing the Forrest Gump turn and parked in the hiking parking lot.
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New River Gorge: Jeff and Katie Wedding, Bridge Tour
On Memorial Day Weekend we headed up to the New River Gorge to celebrate the marriage of Jeff and Katie. We also got a little bit of climbing in as well. The big surprise was the neat experience of walking underneath on the scaffolding of the bridge.
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Linville – Spence Ridge Trail Hike
A hot and boring weekend in Charlotte sent us up in to the mountains to try and beat the heat and entertain ourselves.
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Las Vegas: Red Rocks 2018
1st solo rock trip in a while was to meet up with Joe V. out in Vegas for a desert crush-fest. Well what end up at the end of the trip was definitely some crushings. Joe had a business trip out there for the prior week and we were going to roll this in a red rocks trip. I flew in on a Friday morning and was immdediately fed some in/out burger.
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