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under an hour... nice to go to eku..

5 hours and worth every second!

Too long to make it there every weekend. 7 plus hours.

toad857 wrote:yeah, 1-2n hours would be either option 1 or 2, whichever... dont much care for precision

i was curious because i believe that the majority of visitors are from farther away, rather than closer... counter intuitive, yep, but... i feel like the red has a much larger national reputation than people realize. i always ask folks at the crag where they're from, and i feel like i more often get an answer of "florida" or "new jersey" than "lexington". even doing a weekend tally of license plates at miguels will put kentuckians in the minority.

probably depends on which crags you're at. if you're hanging out at roadside during the summer, or if you just ask the people that eat at miguels i could see how you'd get that impression.

Yosemite to Slade 40 hours door to door. Should be makin the drive in a few weeks.

I can say, around 24 hours now finally im farther than the 3 1/2 I use to be. Although I will miss all my good close friends that I spent so much time with. It is good to be somewhere with good climbing though to bored of the right, left, right of KY Ill see you guys soon I make the drive this weekend (you can see how bored I am with it if I am already making a trip)

Josephine wrote:

toad857 wrote:yeah, 1-2n hours would be either option 1 or 2, whichever... dont much care for precision

i was curious because i believe that the majority of visitors are from farther away, rather than closer... counter intuitive, yep, but... i feel like the red has a much larger national reputation than people realize. i always ask folks at the crag where they're from, and i feel like i more often get an answer of "florida" or "new jersey" than "lexington". even doing a weekend tally of license plates at miguels will put kentuckians in the minority.

probably depends on which crags you're at. if you're hanging out at roadside during the summer, or if you just ask the people that eat at miguels i could see how you'd get that impression.

doesn't matter. my prediction is unchanged.

i still think that MORE people come from farther away than one would expect (given time of travel). (so... one would derive an expectation that a visitor who lives 1 hr away will travel to the gorge five times as often as a visitor who lives 5 hrs away.) my prediction is that the actual representation is skewed--the person who lives 5 hrs away travels to the red more frequently than you'd expect them to. i'm basing this prediction on the red's national reputation vs its regional rep (from my perspective). these would be easy data to collect, but nobody likes statistics

but i bet that kentuckians are in the minority, anyway.

basically, when you go to california, pennsylvania, texas... wherever, it seems like folks talk up the red WAY more than they do around here.

30 Mins to Mt. Olive. 45 to Southern Region. 1 hour to Eastern Skybridge.
I second Blake. It is good to go to EKU.

Also Toad. A lot of us locals never spend the night at Miguels, etc. We might stop by for a slice, chat a bit, and then hit the road back home to our own warm beds. I bet I go to Miquels twice a year. I bet I am (was at least until I had my child this fall) in the southern region twice a week.

I am 2 1/2 hrs. from home & 2 hrs. from work to the Slade exit.

True locals & Rich-More-Lexingtonians are less likely to be at Miguel's. Those within an hours drive or so are more likely to go climbing during the week for a day or for an evening after work. They might also be more likely to choose weekends for a roadtrip to other areas.

20+
1200+ miles