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North Carolina is known for its lack of sport climbing and its abundance of friction climbing. North Carolina is definitely not known for its crack climbing, yet somehow Rumbling Bald has been blessed with four amazing, moderate splitters all within a 100 feet of each other. If you have ever wanted to see what 5.12c offwidth climbing was then here is a great video of a Kris “odub” Hampton playing on Hidden Dragon in Red River Gorge. The line starts with an offwidth roof that you have to pull some sick moves to get up over. I have no idea why [...] The climb really starts from the moment you step out of the car and onto the trail. It is a decent forty minute hike up to where the fun begins but it is actually not that bad because a forest fire ripped through the area a while back and everything is burned to hell which [...] Today the world’s financials markets blew up. I should know because I had a front row seat. Tomorrow may be worse but we’ll take it a day at a time. Coincidentally another major company blew up recently, or more specifically threw in the towel. Grivel North America is no more. (link) They cited this reason: Grivel North [...] I recently had the opportunity to test a pair of CU belay glasses made by a German company called Power’n Play. The general idea behind the belay glasses is to be able to watch the climber without craning your neck for extended periods. Power’n Play did this using prisms that bend the light and allow [...] Normally I cringe at the cliche’d term “corporate citizen” because 99 times out of 99 it is some asshole marketing whiz that thinks recycling beer cans means going green. But everyonce in a while a company doesn’t proclaim they are the great savior of all things important, they just do it. I am a big fan [...] |
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