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Here are some more photos I found. The current regulations mention every activity and whether or not it is ok except climbing but they do say a management plans is in the works.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20412978@N ... 2/sizes/l/

http://www.backpackcamp.com/CumberlandGap/images/57.jpg

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/ ... 23776.jpeg

What a remarkable cliff. Great photos. The best part of it is going to be the clean faces on about the upper half. Where we climbed it, the upper face actually lies back a little more than you might think, but the exposure is amazing. I figured this must be 300 feet or so? Our four pitches were relatively short to take advantage of good stances, so something on the order of 300 feet.

Ray Womack

now... now is now the future, FA paradise, oh course pigsteak may have tagged everything this A.M.

Hey Womack. Since it looks like you were into exploring obscure or undeveloped stuff in SW VA, I was wondering if you ever got up to Tinker Cliffs. I've hiked up there and it looks like there's some potential. The cliffs aren't very tall and the approach is 3.5 miles uphill, so I doubt many people have climbed much up there. Did you ever check it out?

-Mark

Yep. My great-grandparents lived in the notch between Tinker and McAfees. I've been up there many times. The cliffs are maybe 60-80 foot max, good sandstone but awkward. There are big roofs at the bottom of most of them and a lot of wide chimneys that can be climbed solo. We did a little top roping up there and at McAfees, nothing much to talk about. The short faces can be very steep but you seem to always have to deal with some unclimbable roof, not worth it for a 60-foot route. The views from those peaks are wonderful, though. The White Rocks have a similar geological setting (i.e., outcrop slope and low angle bedding) , but they're very tall and the overhangs are manageable. Thinking more about White Rx, I wonder if it would help if the climbers organized things like rescue, guidebooks, sign off, check in system, etc., to take some of the heat off the officials. There are no pluses for gov't guys to take any risks for a bunch of dirtbag climbers. I suggest involving the Va. Tech Cave Club. They deal with access problems all the time and are well-versed in vertical rescue, and that's where the climbers hang out.

I can't image that there is not already some climber involvement in access issues at Cumberland Gap NHP. I have contacted the Access Fund Mid-Atlantic Regional Coordinator to see if he can provide any more details of what is going on with White Rocks.

Has anyone given the White Rocks a go, or at least willing to admit it? I have a silly request. I have a few scanned photos taken on climbs there in the 60s. I'm not clear on how the Img utility works. How do I go about attaching photos to a message? So I grew up with slide rules, ok?

Go here: http://imageshack.us/

Click Browse and find your photo.

Click Upload Now.

Left Click On the http address next to the word Direct Link (once you do that the http address of the picture is automatically copied).

Go to your post/message at RRC and then click the Img button.

On your internet browser click 'Edit' (it's in the top left corner of your screen), then click Paste.

Once you are done typing the post and click Submit, the picture should appear.

An HDR I made recently:

Sick.