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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Breaks Interstate Park – July 2020
In the heat of summer we got a adventure with a little bit of a national park feel. There is a little state park tuck up in the Appalachians between Kentucky and Virginia called the Breaks Interstate Park. It calls itself the grand canyon of the south.
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In the month of February, I made more trips to tumbling bald that the past 3 years. It started with the CCC competion.
Summersville Lake Bed – 2019
This would be the last weekend of the year for me climbing. One last weekend at the vice-house.
New River Gorge – 2019 Fall Season
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.
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Two weekends were squeaked out in the month of August. Here were the highlights..
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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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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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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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New Years – Chattanooga 2018
For new years we decided to go to Chattanooga again, as a bunch of other Charlotte people were going there too. I had a brief layover in Charlotte, before heading out on I40 to reach Chattanooga.
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