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Damn your fast,maybe you'd like to try that in person!

Jeff, sorry to hear about the Lyme. I got bit last spring in upstate New York. Had the typical Bulls eye mark. Got the shot within 24 hrs. and came through with no other symptoms. Up north all clinics and doctors have the supper shot on hand ! I've got 2 friends up there that got it real bad. Both h...

I've got an old book. Could it be Route 52 5.9 left of H.B. fa Molzon ?

I'm with Shannon on this. The RRGCC lands are not Muir Valley! Forest Service quality pit toilets are expensive to build, maintain and protect! The Southern Region and Miller Fork are a wilderness experience, Liken to the original crags of the Red in the National Forest. Imagine what would happen to...

Sorry Greg, for the reference to your Route. I'm going to blame it on old age, memory loss, eye sight, etc.. I meant to refer to the contrived direct start, which WAS first climbed but deemed not up to par with the final bolted line. Sorry again, Climb-Safe. Mike.

From the cover photo, to 8 out of 100 Routes. The Red River Gorge, Ky. is a great place to call home or to visit. H'mmmm just wondering where 'Prometheus Unbound' ranked among the other thousands of Sport routes in the U.S.

There it is again! "If we own it-They can't close it!

Widow makers can be avoided by staying in the GYM! Welcome to the Red. Thanks for the Report, Climb-Safe.

Clif, ah yes. Bolting, cutting Holly trees for photo Ops., the trampling of Native American arch sites. Total access control by the Forest Service. 'If we own it, They can't close it'.

YNP1, you got me there. Certainly there is no rock being created. But you must agree there is unlimited potential for new routes (grid bolting). There are 1,000's of miles of cliff line. Much of it not even seen by modern climbers. And it's safe (National Forest) from private (RRGCC) exposure/abuse....