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Jeff wrote:Kind of hot out for a fire?

Yeah, but i wasn't eating raw hotdogs and we were famished!

wow what an epic. Maybe next time think twice before heading out into an area you are totally unfamiliar with a half hour before dark, especially if you can't read a map. If you can't even manage to camp in the red river gorge with out it turning into a major epic I would think twice before heading...

Well, camping was an experience this weekend, and that is putting it mildly. We climbed way to late on Saturday evening (until ~ 8:00) in Muir and then made our way to Clifty Wilderness. By the time we pared at the Wildcat Trailhead it was 8:30 and darkening fast. I was a little worried but accordin...

Thanks for the suggestions! I just ordered the Pomery Quad and will be studying it before our upcoming trip! Thanks again.

Hey, everyone. I know backcountry camping is allowed, for a small (very small) price, but i was wondering who had done such before in the Red? Two other friends and i have decided that we wanted to spend a night or two away from the crowds and camp in as much seclusion as possible, but my experience...

It's going to be really hot next Wednesday as well, or so i have been told. I guess everyone should stay away from the gorge that day.

I usually carry an 18 inch (sometimes 2) runners with one carabiner clipped into the belay loop and the other, eventually, clipped into the anchors at the top. I then weight the runners before calling off belay to make sure they hold. This is how i was taught and have done it this way ever since by...

This is very, very sad and scary. It defintiely makes me question my own method for anchoring into the top of a route. I usually carry an 18 inch (sometimes 2) runners with one carabiner clipped into the belay loop and the other, eventually, clipped into the anchors at the top. I then weight the run...

gripster wrote:Uhh, if you are able to get up a route, then you can rappel back off of it. Why don't you ask what routes in the Gorge have the most fun rappels, and then climb that route?

Decent point. Why don't you then enlighten me as to which routes have the most fun rappels?

out of curiosity..why in the world would anyone rappel except to get off a climb? Climbing is by far a much more fun and exhilarating activity but there are defintiely times that i love a nice rappel. I guess in all honesty, in a place like Red River Gorge, where the main reason for traveling there...