Post RocTrip Press

[Saxman]

Finally watched the clip. Nice job. Too bad Bob got cut out.

[captain static]

Upon reviewing last week's Google analytics for the RRGCC website I noticed a number of referrals from a www.kairn.com site. It turns out this is a French website and the referrals were coming from an article on the site by Mikael Fuselier - http://www.kairn.com/article.html?id=1037 Check out the article for some nice pictures.

Thanks mostly to internet translators and much less to two years of high school French here is what I hope is a decent translation. Please submit corrections if I have made any glaring errors in the translation. [quote]Petzl Roc Trip in Red River Gorge By Mike Fuselier Article submitted: 18-10-2007

It is obvious, Red River Gorge is THE major spot where it is pleasant to practice rock climbing with bare hands. This small corner of paradise is located in Kentucky two and a half hours east of Louisville. The small "Difficulty" in this corner of paradise, is that there is oil. The RRGCC (the local climbers association) purchased the land so that access to the area could be continued. In addition to the fact of discovering a magical spot, the goal of this Roc Trip was to help the RRGCC by transferring to them the bonuses gained by the climbers (what an excellent concept). Red River Gorge comprises several areas and there is something for everyone: from 5.5 up to the high level project, you can search for a while before finding "bouse" (trans. “dungâ€

[Josephine]

thanks for taking the time to figure out a translation! despite taking a year of french in college, i couldn't really read any of it! it was a nice write up

[SCIN]

"Red River Gorge is THE major spot where it is pleasant to practice rock climbing with bare hands."

That should be the new slogan for the Red.

[captain static]

HA, I was wondering about that statement but that is how it translated? I took it as his way of saying it wasn't a via ferratta?

[truello]

It sounds like it is the french version of his post at petzlteam.com:

http://petzlcrew.petzlteam.com//index.p ... o-conclude

[phlsphr]

If you saw or talked to the NPR lady wandering around Roctoberfest with her microphone (or even if you didn't), you might enjoy listening to the story she put together for the show "Only a game".

You can get it as a podcast here: http://www.wbur.org/listen/podcasts/

Or listen from the show's website here: http://www.onlyagame.org/shows/2007/10/20071027.asp

The Roctoberfest story is at the last story in the hour long show, about 47 minutes into the broadcast. I found it a bit antiseptic, and occasionally clueless, but over all not too bad considering she had no previous knowledge of climbing whatsoever.

[Josephine]

Thanks for posting the link.

i thought she did a fantastic job for not knowing anything about climbing at all when she started! she was lotsa fun to talk to - and i actually learned something from listening to her story. (median income for locals is a paltry $21k!)

kudos to everyone that interviewed with her!

[tomdarch]

median income for locals is a paltry $21k!

That's the median household income in one of the local counties! (of course, those statistics don't include income from the 'informal economy' - e.g. 'forest products') I can't imagine how anyone could survive at that income level - especially with gas around $3 a gallon, and you've got to burn a couple of gallons to get just about anywhere.

(In Owsley county - SW of the gorge - the median household income in 2004 was more like $18k! But somehow the unemployment rate is around 8% - let me slap anyone who says that the national minimum wage level doesn't matter.)

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/Unemployme ... .asp?ST=KY

[Paul3eb]

truncated version of the interview

http://thismosaic.com/tiles/roctrip2007.mp3