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Utah Hills and Flagstaff Homies.
This post is analagous to what Porter has called ‘filler routes’. It details important events now past, not expouded upon adequately in former posts. Yes, we continued to have a blast in the Utah Hills climbing at the Wailing Wall and Sunset Alley. I had quick success on Indulgence (13b) and set my sights on…
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Smells like BACON!
About an hour after I redpointed this route, Eddie was finally ready for his flash attempt. He like a stealth bomber, waited patiently for me to work out all the intricate beta (all of which was hijacked from Misty who is ridiculously close to sending this thing) so that he could AGAIN flash my project…
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Quick Photo Splash
Apollo is a desert dog… she has learned the hard way about cactus and spraying lizards. Hiking is for rest days…. WHAT?! for sure had some of the smallest “holds” i have ever seen on a rock climb! nice work Jumbo Hoss!
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From sandstorm to snowstorm… I mean Indian Creek to St. George.
“The Creek”… “The Red”… “Smiff” … “Squish”… “The Ditch”. I think crags get these shortened nicknames in hopes of capturing all the nostalgia and specialness of an area in just a few words; when in reality, no words can truly express an experience or a place. Climbing routes in all styles can further enhance the…
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Indian Creek
Long story short: I am finished with 4th year rotations, matched IM at University of Kentucky. Rachel quit her job. I didn’t redpoint Trebuchet (Philosophical/analytical post to follow soon). Our time living in West Virginia has come to a close. We are traveling for 6 weeks before graduation. We drove out to Moab after finding…
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BooM! Woof!
WOw! Its been a long time since ive posted! And, since my counterpart in this blog thing has been rotating around the southeast helping sick people, and saving lives pretending to be a doctor , ive been left with the task of continuing this amazing blog piece solo. Without further rambling, let me introduce the…
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Fighting the Pump and Dominating the Land of Catan
So, last week, I found myself responding to an invite from Leslie Timms to go crush some rigs down at the Red River Gorge. Leslie is better known as “Les the Mess” and you can read about all the unimpressive and lame things she has done at: www.leslietimms.com or by clicking the link to her blog on…
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Big Rig Reflections: Proper Soul
Now that winter has descended upon us here in West Virginia I finally have the time to do a proper write-up on the highlights of returning to the New River Gorge after our trip to Kalymnos. Enjoy. If you want to skip the write-up and go straight to the pictures, you’ll find them at the…
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Peace out Kalymnos…
Holy crap! We are back in good ole ‘MERRrrrica… specifically the New River Gorge. AHhhhhhh. It smells better here ,I think. At least, 15 meters from the wall it certainly does. So, I wanted to write for a minute about our last days in Kalymnos. Unfortunately, weather.com didn’t get the memo that we had routes to climb, and projjys…
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Slippery when WET.
During the first few weeks of our trip we considered the weather to be adequate, but with room for improvement. Well, we were wrong. The past week has been wet, wet, wet. For the past 6 days, we’ve experienced daily heavy rain and WV-esque humidity. Plus, limestone gets SLICK. Think of cleaning your porcelain sink…