Category Archives: Climbing

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

A Belated New River Gorge Recap

Aug 03 2015

With a shoe demo in Atlanta last week (more on how cool demos are next week!), I was too busy to do the write-up for our New River Gorge trip the previous weekend, but I figured better a week late than never! The New was forecasted to be hot…and humid…but not QUITE as hot and not QUITE as humid as the southern crags in our neck of the woods, so we made the trip. Summer conditions at the New (or pretty much anywhere in the Southeast) are never all that great, but our main goal was to get plenty of mileage…Read the rest of this entry →

A Weekend of Waterfalls (and Climbing) in the High Country

Jul 14 2015

We may have had a cool and pleasant spring this year, but summer in the Southeast is shaping up to be H-O-T! Here lately the thermometer has hit 90 before lunchtime and the humidity has felt downright smothering. That meant that the only logical place for weekend adventures was the higher elevation areas in the western part of the state, where daytime highs were literally 20 degrees cooler than back home. Our agenda was pretty open-ended. We really just wanted to escape the heat and get some good family time together. The past few weeks have been very hectic, and…Read the rest of this entry →

From 1 Kid to 2…How Outdoor Adventures Have Changed…

Jul 07 2015

A couple of weeks ago I received a question from reader Patricia T. that really made me stop and think. She basically wanted to know specifics about how life has changed for us since adding another child to our family. In her words – “…I’ve had so many people tell me that the second one really shuts your life down. Now, I’m trying to take that with a grain of salt, b/c I think we (I’m assuming she meant outdoorsy folks) are cut from a different cloth. But it still worries me. What’s your take on this?” I wrote a…Read the rest of this entry →

Gettin’ High Off the Ground in Linville Gorge

Jun 16 2015

This past weekend our family did an overnight in the Linville Gorge. If you’ve never been to the Linville Gorge, it’s pretty spectacular! If you like being outside at all, you will fall in love with this place, as it is top-notch at pretty much whatever outdoor endeavor you like. On this particular occasion, we had planned a 24 hour quickie of hiking, climbing, camping, and lazing around in the hammock. Thankfully it’s only a couple of hours from our house, and we arrived on Friday evening a little bit after 6 – just enough time for a short hike/picnic…Read the rest of this entry →

A Family Sunday “SEND-day” at Kaymoor

Jun 10 2015

Our good luck with good climbing conditions has fortunately continued into late spring (which probably means we’ll be smothered by a hot blanket of humidity any day now.) And while 80’s may not be ideal sending temps, the weather felt darn near perfect for June in the Southeast…so off to the New we went! We decided to climb in the shade at Kaymoor on Day 1. Steve was psyched to work Lost Souls (5.12a), and I figured it was probably about time for me to give that one another try. I’d been on it several times before Baby Zu (most notably of…Read the rest of this entry →

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