Christine Balaz and I arrived in at the Red River Gorge a few days ago. Her bag were delayed on the first leg of our flight from SLC and the desire to climb was greater than the need of extra clothes, sleeping pad, stove and quickdraws, so we jumped in the rental and busted a move to the Gorge. The first crag we walked up to, Christine connected with some friends from her last trip here a few weeks ago. At the second crag, i ran into Ben and some other friends from Alabama. We all cragged together the rest of the day. Despite serious jet lag from our 1am departure from SLC and the effects of sleeping pills, we managed to climb well. I have not done any sport climbing this season yet and managed to flash a couple of the 5.12's we got on! I was pretty surprised given my current fitness...
Packing at Chirstine house
The hub of Red River Climbing
Christine on a route at the Motherload
a really cool 5.12b
Christine on Chainsaw Massacre 5.12a
It's been really fun the last few days climbing and hanging out with friends. I can now understand why so many climbers rave about this place... it's freakin' amazing! I would really love to come back to this place with top endurance fitness and sample many of the longer and more challenging routes here. Perhaps this autumn??
Packing at Chirstine house
The hub of Red River Climbing
Christine on a route at the Motherload
a really cool 5.12b
Christine on Chainsaw Massacre 5.12a
4 comments:
yeah deano, i was way impressed with the red. if you get a chance to go out to muir valley, say hi to rick and liz weber, those guys are an inspiration.
bp
dean-- wish I wasn't doing finals right now cause the gorge is only a few hours away. As Brian said, Muir Valley is great and the Webers are the nicest folks around. Hope you enjoy it. Sometime we will have to meet up with you when you are down there. Enjoy Miguel's pizza! -- klinglers
Glad that you made it to the red dean. I always knew that you would love that place.
i would imagine you flashed those routes because of all the non-bouldering you did in Joes.
NON-BOULDERING (verb?) - when one goes on a climbing trip and ends up doing more silly things than actual climbing.
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