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Tenaya Demos: Triangle Rock Club and Stone Summit
Tenaya Tarifa in action out in the Linville Gorge One of my responsibilities as an athlete for Trango/Tenaya is providing shoe demos for various climbing gyms. Most recently, I spent a Sunday in...
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Wyoming Adventure Part 1: Around Lander
Caleb checking out the moves on Poker Face Alice. If you’ve been regularly following this blog, you may have noticed that it’s been pretty quiet of late. That’s because our family spent 10 days...
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Wyoming Adventure Part Deux: First Days at Ten Sleep
If you’re new around here, I’m recapping our family’s recent exploits in Wyoming, a few days at a time. If you missed Part 1 (the Lander edition), click here to catch up! For the deets on our first...
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Wyoming Adventure Part THREE – Last Days in Ten Sleep
On our last trip to Ten Sleep (in 2012), we only had 3 consecutive days in on which to climb (and we were so beat on Day 3 that we only made it til lunchtime.) So this time around, we allowed more...
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Wyoming Adventure Finale (aka the part that happened in Utah)
Like a Limestone Cow(girl) 12a After one last wonderful climbing day in Ten Sleep (summed up here), we dragged our tired but satisfied bones back down to the car, and drove west back to Lander. The...
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Humidity + Humility = Reality at the New River Gorge
This weekend marked our first climbing trip back on the east coast since our big Wyoming adventure (summed up here, here, here, and here.) And while it felt good to be back on familiar stone, the...
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NRG Craggin’ Classic
Last weekend was the first official weekend of fall, and for climbers in the Southeast, that means it’s time for the Craggin’ Classic at the New River Gorge! This NRG event is actually just one of a...
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Red River Gorge: Rocktoberfest 2015
Every time our family makes one of our biannual pilgrimages to the Red, we always vow to spend more time there the following year…but somehow we never manage to drive past the New more than twice....
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NRG Round 1: Endless (Not Sendless) Wall
Techman 12c After a month of unseasonably wet and humid conditions, we were starting to think fall climbing season would never get here. But this past weekend was about as good as it gets,...
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New River Gorgeous Fall Climbing!
It’s been 7 years since the CragDaddy and I first visited the New River Gorge (way back in the pre-kid era of our marriage.) Since then we’ve spent hundreds of weekends up there, in all seasons of the...
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Sendless at Endless
Catchy title, but will probably make for a rather lackluster trip report! Conditions were prime for sending…I guess my only excuse is myself! Fortunately, however, our weekend in West Virginia was...
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The Blessings of Jesus and Tequila
A lot of people tout that Jesus and Tequila 12b (aka “J ‘n T”) is the best 5.12 in the New River Gorge (and I wouldn’t disagree.) Some people even argue that it’s the best route in the Gorge, period....
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Climbing in 2015 – The Year in Review
For many of us, the end of a year marks a time to reflect on the goals we had for the previous year, as well as make new ones for the next year. With regards to climbing, I’d left my goals for 2015...
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The Tick List for 2016
For our family this year, the holidays have involved sharing a little more with each other than we had intended – our winter break started with a stomach virus that violently ransacked it’s way through...
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Climbing Gym Workouts for Improving Endurance
January is a pretty popular time to start a training program for many people, what with the combination of New Year’s resolutions and falling off the exercise/healthy eating wagon over the holidays....
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Family Climbing: Big C’s First Multi-pitch Adventure
It was an epic day for our family at Stone Mountain last weekend. Well, for three of us anyway. We left Baby Zu with the grands, and whisked Big C off to Stone Mountain for his very first day of...
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Spring Climbing Season Has Sprung!
CragDaddy fingerlockin on Reckless Abandon 12a This past weekend represented the official “start” of spring climbing season for us. The CragDaddy and I both came into the weekend with somewhat mixed...
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Spring(?!?) Break at the Red River Gorge
Hueco wackos enjoying themselves out at Left Flank. When we started planning our spring break trip to the Red a couple of months ago, we decided to reserve a cabin in lieu of camping, just because the...
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New River Gorge: The (Almost) Day of Reckoning
I’d love to know how many Friday nights our family has spent picnicking at this VA rest area off Hwy 77! If you follow our family on instagram (@cragmama1), you may have noticed a family photo taken...
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New Project at Hawksbill Mountain
For our family, the month of May marks perfect sending conditions at one of our favorite crags – Hawksbill Mountain in the Linville Gorge. The sending season here is short – if you come in April your...
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