Category Archives: Climbing

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

Hidden Projects

May 17 2011

After a long week of working our tails off unpacking boxes, moving furniture, hanging pictures, and organizing shelves and drawers, we decided to reward ourselves with some climb time at the crag on Sunday afternoon. One of my favorite parts about our new location is that we now have a local crag that is actually “local,” instead of 2 hours away! So Sunday morning we got up leisurely, headed to church dressed in our climbing clothes (which by the way I also love – a church without dress codes…), and then were out at the crag by 1130 or so. …Read the rest of this entry →

Parlier’s Project: A Documentary of Grayson Highlands State Park

May 16 2011

Last summer we spent a good deal of time bouldering up at Grayson Highlands, VA. Its an area that has seen smatterings of activity for many, many years, but only in small pockets of the park. In recent years, this park has seen a resurgence in development, due mostly to my friend Aaron Parlier, who we met out at Grayson last summer. Aaron is in the process of writing a guidebook for the area, hoping to have it in the hands of the publisher by the fall. On the day that we met Aaron, we also met Daniel Caudill, who…Read the rest of this entry →

Rain and Rivers Raging at the Red!

Apr 27 2011

Considering that the last time we climbed at the Red was when I was 11 weeks preggo and under a self-imposed toprope restriction, it was great to finally get back there, and this time on the sharp end! We headed up on Thursday afternoon to meet our crew of climbing partners at Lago Linda’s. The weather forecast was not good. In fact, it was downright bad. But I’m so thankful we didn’t let a few rain drops get in the way of our having a good time! Obviously with a large posse of climbers with varying abilities, no two people had the same tick list,…Read the rest of this entry →

All Sorts of “Newness” at the New River Gorge

Apr 13 2011

I’ve been to the New a countless number of times over the past few years, and the best part about it is that it never gets old! No matter how many times we head up there, no two trips are ever the same, and this weekend was certainly no exception. In fact, our weekend was chock full of “newness” – a new climbing season, a new drive, a new friend, lots of new routes, new gear, and of course a new hit list to work with. Our trip started on Friday afternoon, when Cragbaby and I picked Steve up at…Read the rest of this entry →

Crowder’s Mountain – Our New Local Crag!

Apr 05 2011

We’ve been in Charlotte for a little over a month now, but hadn’t had a chance to explore any of our new local rock until this weekend. We’d been to Crowder’s Mountain before two other times when we were relatively new climbers, but not since 2007, so it felt like a new area. Crowder’s Mountain is located near Gastonia, NC, and is only 35 minutes away from our new digs! I can see why Crowder’s doesn’t always have the best reputation among NC climbers. It can get overrun with red-helmeted boy scouts and biting flies during the summer, hikers stand in amazement gawking at those “crazy folks…Read the rest of this entry →

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