Category Archives: Climbing

Posts about…you guessed it – climbing! Trip reports, anecdotes, and musings about my favorite recreational pasttime.

Dave the Dude 5.11d – From a Dudette’s Perspective…

Nov 17 2011

While every climbing trip we take involves fun and uniqeness, not every trip contains a moment like this one. It’s 5 days later as I write this and my heart still skips a beat when I think about this line. When I first sat down to write up my trip report from last week’s trip to the Red, I knew Dave the Dude deserved way more love than a brief mention in a weekend recap, so I decided to memorialize it as a Classic Climb. Just like the old adage that says you can’t judge a book by its cover,…Read the rest of this entry →

Red River Gorgeous…

Nov 16 2011

Last week our crew made a pilgrimage north across state lines, where we spent 4 days frolicking around on Kentucky sandstone. This marked our family’s third trip to the Red, but only the first in which we didn’t get rained on every single day. In fact, aside from a few passing showers in the car on the way up, we didn’t even see a drop! Since we had a fairly large group, we decided to all go in together and splurge on a cabin – considering that the lows were in the upper 20’s, it was well worth the extra…Read the rest of this entry →

Guidebook Work Day: Enjoyment High, Productivity Low, Sans Cragbaby!

Nov 09 2011

While admittedly that title might be a little extreme, the Moore’s Wall Guidebook Photo Extravaganza certainly did not go as planned. The original plan was to meet up with my favorite photographer, Manuela, on Thursday morning at Moore’s Wall. Our goal was to photograph as much of the cliffline as we could and spend the night with family in Winston-Salem, so that we could not only wrap up route photos on Friday, but also walk the cliff with Carolina Climbers Coalition president Scott Gilliam so that he could show us some undocumented lines. Our plans started unraveling long about Wednesday…Read the rest of this entry →

Rocktober-fest at the New River Gorge

Oct 27 2011

After a small string of crappy weather trips a few weekends back, I was starting to think our rain curse was back…but au contraire! Despite both nights plummeting to a frosty 35 degrees, the daytime temps went from frigid to an ideal 60 degrees within a couple of hours of the sun rise, much to everyone’s delight. Although we had a pretty big crew with a wide range of skill levels represented, I think everyone managed to get their fair share of pump and exposure, along with a healthy dose of fall color. We spent Saturday at Endless Wall, which is probably…Read the rest of this entry →

A Day at Dixon

Oct 18 2011

We had a few things to get done this weekend (not the least of which involved taking Cragbaby to a pumpkin patch), but the weather was too good to pass up – so we ended up spending Saturday at our local bouldering area – Dixon School Road Boulders. We actually had spent a quick evening session there once back in the summer of 2009 – Steve was in Charlotte on business, and since I was teaching at the time and out of school for the summer, I’d gone with him. (It turns out I was also pregnant with C at…Read the rest of this entry →

“Not all who wander are lost.” —JRR TOLKIEN