The ongoing local, nowcast, conditions report

Post by **Wes** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:14 am

Soooo nice the last couple days. Sitting with the screen door only, and it feels nice and cool. Rock felt pretty nice today as well.

Moved to the red for the worst (far and away) winter in 11 years. Quit (mostly) climbing for the best summer in 11 years. FML.

Post by **pigsteak** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:28 am

Wes wrote:Soooo nice the last couple days. Sitting with the screen door only, and it feels nice and cool. Rock felt pretty nice today as well.

Moved to the red for the worst (far and away) winter in 11 years. Quit (mostly) climbing for the best summer in 11 years. FML.

it must be in the slade water.....rro quits climbing, wes quits....are you saying we should keep our day jobs and keep frothing at the mouth for the incrredible opoprtunities you guys have to climb? or thank the climbing gods that we don't live 10 minutes from world class sandstone?

Post by **Wes** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:07 pm

Rained pretty hard yesterday afternoon/evening, but has cleared up since then. Humidity was up today though - felt like summer again, though a bit cooler.

Since no one has used the rrg_cond hashtag yet, maybe we should come up with something else? Maybe rrg_climb then it can include weather, crowds, dui checkpoints, and just where you are climbing that day? I will start updating that tag today as well. @wesfromky is my twitter...

Got out to climb a bit today. Well it was just trad climbing, so not real climbing, but psyched for Tania - flash snake for her third trad lead. Pretty soon, I won't have to lead at all!

Post by **neuroshock** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:09 pm

Wes wrote:Since no one has used the rrg_cond hashtag yet, maybe we should come up with something else? Maybe rrg_climb then it can include weather, crowds, dui checkpoints, and just where you are climbing that day? I will start updating that tag today as well. @wesfromky is my twitter...

http://neuroshock.info/climbing/rrg_climb/

Post by **mike_anderson** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:07 am

What do you mean "DUI checkpoints"?

Post by **Wes** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:15 am

mike_anderson wrote:What do you mean "DUI checkpoints"?

They run DUI check points at a few different places around the red - usually Nada Tunnel, chimney top road, 715 near the beer trailer, at Glen Carrin road, etc.

Post by **mike_anderson** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:26 am

Please don't drink and drive.

The roads around the Red are dangerous enough as it is without sprinkling in blurred vision and delayed reaction time. I'm all for taking risks "for the fun of it", but when you drink and drive you endanger other innocent people.

Post by **Wes** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:52 am

mike_anderson wrote:Please don't drink and drive.

The roads around the Red are dangerous enough as it is without sprinkling in blurred vision and delayed reaction time. I'm all for taking risks "for the fun of it", but when you drink and drive you endanger other innocent people.

Yes, drinking and driving is bad. But, at least to me, these check points are less about public safety, and more about constitutionally murky fishing expeditions for things you may, or may not, be doing wrong. After going through a couple, including one where I was called a "bad citizen" for refusing to wave my right against unreasonable search, I just have a kinda bad impression of them.

But, back to condtions - nice a cool tonight, but still feels a bit muggy. Will have an update tomorrow, but will be in Lexington Saturday and maybe Sunday, so you all are on your own, unless someone else steps up!

Post by **Wes** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:54 pm

Rain this morning - looks like it might hang around for a bit. Humidity has been up the last couple of days as well, but temps are still nice for late July. Twitter hashtag changed again (sorry Mike) to #rrgclimb as per suggestion of paul.

Post by **captain static** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:29 pm

Looks like we are going to have a good weekend for JATD!