Despite the rain and unusual weather Hogan and I had a great time climbing on the South Face of Looking Glass Rock.  Most of the rock was wet, however Second Coming was dry.  We had climbed multipitch before, but this was Hogan first time with double ropes.  It took a while to get use to [...]

If you ask a climber if she wants to go rock climbing, a likely response will be “what kind?” Answers to this follow up inquiry might include: bouldering, sport-climbing, trad, or multi-pitch. For folks that are new to climbing, the lingo may seem confusing. Let’s get this sorted out and point you to some places [...]

Saturday I was fortunate enough to climb with Todd and Maria.  They were in NC on vacation from New York.  Both were adventurous.  Todd has run 10 marathons and Maria has run 6.  Maria had done some climbing in the Gunks and wanted to try some multipitch in NC, so they decided to come out.
After [...]

The weather was going to be perfect for climbing and it was.  Kaijia and Chung were visiting the area and decided to do some rock climbing.  It was a great day  for it.  Kaijia is from NY and has climbed at the Gunks some.  This was Chung’s first outdoor experience.  Knowing that the Gunks is [...]

Okay so I’ve been back for close to a month and I have been running around playing like crazy.
My friend Loren and I finally climbed “Straight and Narrow” as well as “Built to Tilt” out at Shortoff.  We spied a great looking line on the arete just left of “Big Corner” but after some research [...]