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Orange Juice is a really good route on beautiful rock. It goes at .12c, and what most people call the crux is crimping on small holds and highstepping on a gently overhanging face. maybe 15 degrees, tops. rr slab.

Why hello there Red River Gorge people! Is the Red not gay enough for you? Do you yearn for a crag where you can climb with people who aren't the same gender they were born into? Do you know what the term "breeder" means? Well, do I have an event for you! http://homoclimbtastic.files.word...

I live in Columbus, Ohio and... People from Ohio are the real reason the Red is so overcrowded with gymballs.. I know this is a running joke around here, but most people from Cleveland go to the New, because of drive time and interstate architecture (77 goes straight from Cleveland to the new, basi...

Meadows and Artsay, Obviously the perma draws were not removed from the cave because it is okay for 12/13 climbers to hang dog their way up 13's and 14's while it is not okay for 11 climbers to hang dog their way up 12's. :D Yeah, I want to say that too... but I think steepness dictated their choic...

Actually, there's one more note I'd like to make. One way the "community" can communicate it's values to new climbers? You can open your fucking mouth and say something at the crag. So on my very first trip to the Red, when you could still camp up near Oil Crack Crag, me and a whole group ...

Wanna see less people at your favorite rr crag? TL;DNR: Make things more of a pain in the ass. Long version: - Charge more for camping. Not because it will discourage dirtbags, who are actually a community resource for transmitting the culture of what is appropriate, because of their continuity, but...

Well... big shout out to Paul Nelson as well (camhead on here) for a redpoint of Welcome to Ol' Kentuck this past Sunday. His first 5.13 trad line. Having been conscripted into hiking up to Pebble Beach a handful of times myself to belay my partner on the prodge, I had worked on the .11cR seam/face ...

Oh, and Hey- here is the link to donate to Friends of Muir Valley.

Just read the thread about the stats for last weekend, and realized we hadn't sent and money for a while. Time to send some. So in case anyone else wants a handy-dandy link...

http://www.friendsofmuirvalley.org/index.php?page=6

So, we were climbing at Bibliotech on Saturday. One of our crew asked about beta on a route to me, and I jokingly yelled up, "do you want me to put some blue tickmarks up there for you?" A kid next to us heard this, and said "I have some blue chalk!" He must have seen the confus...

I haven't spoken in this thread yet, so I'll preface these remarks with my best wishes and strongest hopes for Mike's recovery. He sounds like an amazing guy, and a fighter. Excellent advice. I still have a concern about the proficiency of local dispatchers. A few nights ago, a caller reported to 91...