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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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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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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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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…
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Double-rig day!
Two days ago we awoke to a pitter-patter of a light rainstorm. Considering we took a rest day on the previous day, there was no way I was not going rock climbing. At first I thought we should abandon ship and go to the Grande Grotto, a gigantic cave instead of returning to Odyssey for…
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Maiden Voyage
Well now, here we are leaving for our first climbing trip to Europe. Destination: Kalymnos, Greece Objective: Tufa-wrangle up on monster 40+ meter pitches. While I could sit here and explain to you how SYKED we are on our trip and how sicky we plan to climb on perfect pitches–I feel it may be more…