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You could, on the other hand, understand very little about climbing and send a much harder grade than the "old crusty traddies" might. Everyone has seen it. I would agree with the 10,000; though its inherintly subjective because its an arbitrary number. A true expert at climbing per se wou...

Nothing like performing your sacred ceremony to the din of 18 wheelers and Harleys whizzing by at 80mph. Exactly, I always found this kind of strange why the climbing is bad mojo but the highway is fine. In my opinion, its not a loss to climbers to go another 10 minutes or so to Lover's Leap but ma...

I would like to stage a rap battle betwixt the Odubs. We could hold this at the rest area from the train platform; it won't be cheap I will provide paper cones to amplify the sweet rhymes. The loser would have to buy everyone involved an ale8 and subway or open a DQ franchise at the gorge exit. Alth...

Here is the link to Chris Carr's thesis: http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1178812135 the abstract and then the link to the full text. Practically, if you had walked as much of the cliffline and bushwhacked through as much of the forest as I have you would realize how much of RRG is ...

I'm curious if the study takes into consideration the terrain? Does the hiker / climber impact % grow when you consider how much of the 42,000 acres is actually accessible by foot? Or, another way to look at it is that hikers and climbers are heading to a destination. Some specific feature or viewp...

funny how the grooves make the anchors stronger The grooves don't make the anchor stronger, they just direct the load onto the strongest part of the anchor. The non-grooved anchor allows the rope to slide out and gain better leverage against the most stressed part of the anchor. I buy this rational...

Its a bat :| I am sorry the publik skool sisytim has faaled you. Seriously, are we protecting natural areas for us or for nature? Also, I am glad that everyone is passionate about such an important issue but remember where your expertise lies and that things are done with the best intention though,...

If you keep walking on the logging road for a while, and take a logging road left after a couple big boulders, you will pass near Major's pinnacle, and can drop left into lumpy wall, or continue along some more undocumented cliff, with a few pretty sweet looking cracks. Wes is right there are some ...

BTW, Chris is a great guy and I learned a lot from him over the years. We were not close pals or climbing partners or anything but I bought just about all my climbing gear, shoes, hiking boots, and everything else from Call of The Wild. Many afternoons were spent in there planning trips to Lover's L...

I've got a couple versions of 'The Bible' for Tennesse that are old and new, but unfortunately I won't be around this weekend to be of any service. Check out rock/creek in Chatt, they'll have what you need. They have I think four locations there but two I know sell climbing gear. Give a call to find...