Tag Archives: New River Gorge

New River Rendezvous X – A Recap of the Rollercoaster

May 23 2013

After skipping a year for the first time in 10 years, the New River Rendezvous was back and better than ever this past weekend! For those of you not familiar with it, the ‘Vous is a climber’s festival that raises money for the New River Alliance of Climbers (NRAC). It’s also a great excuse for the climbing community to get together and celebrate living near some of the best stone this country has to offer! Though it was the 5th Rendezvous for Steve and I (and Cragbaby’s 2nd), it was my first time attending as an athlete for Trango,…Read the rest of this entry →

Sending a Family Project: Flash Point (5.11d)

May 08 2013

This weekend the hubby and I had the unique opportunity to send a project together, one that was equally meaningful to us both, but for very different reasons. For Steve, Flash Point was about redemption. After a pretty successful toprope run this past January, he tied in on the sharp end with no expectations and shocked everyone (but probably himself the most!) by making it through the first two cruxes clean before pumping out one move before a good rest 80 feet up. After jugging back up he found some better holds that probably would have kept him on had…Read the rest of this entry →

New River Gorge (in January?!?) and Climbing “Tall”

Jan 16 2013

The cool thing about living in the Southeast is that rock climbing can be a year round endeavor. In fact, some south-facing, friction climbing areas are pretty much only good in the winter (Stone Mountain, Rumbling Bald, and the Asheboro Boulderfield come to mind). If the sun is shining and the wind is calm, you can have a very pleasant day with relatively warm rock even with high temps in the low 40′s. But despite the abundance of winter climbing opportunities, our family always makes a definitive shift into “cold weather climbing mode.” We spend more time jumping down onto crash pads than…Read the rest of this entry →

Hit List for 2012 – The Year in Review

Jan 03 2013

Well, another year has come and gone, which means another Hit List has drawn to a close. This was the second time I’ve put my year-long goals out there in cyber space (for 2011 Hit List click here), and once again, it was a wild ride, with plenty of bumps (and bruises) along the way! After an unexpected injury started the year off on the “wrong foot” (sorry, couldn’t help myself…), I found a lot of my mental battles this year revolved around fear. Fear in trusting my ankle again, fear in getting my lead head back, along with an…Read the rest of this entry →

Cragbaby’s Photo Shoot: Anatomy of a Good Jump

Oct 26 2012

As many of you know, I posted up some of the leftover photos from some of the recent Trango shoots last week…but what you probably didn’t know is that during one of those Trango shoots, Cragbaby was involved in a photo session of his own! My favorite climbing photographer (who also happens to be one of my favorite people period!) knows firsthand just how much my little guy enjoys hamming it up for the camera. So when she started snapping photos of C jumping off a boulder, his efforts went from casual to full throttle in about 1.4 seconds! …Read the rest of this entry →

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