Hueco Syndrome and Malice in Bucketland
…just a couple of the fun route names here… What is amazing is that on two of the three days we climbed we were the ONLY roped climbers. Everyone else […]
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Hueco Tanks – Back into Texas
Hueco Tanks must rank as one of the most famous climbing areas in the US if not the world. Arguably the best Bouldering on the planet, it also has a […]
Socorro and The Box
Heading south we more or less stumbled upon The Box near Socorro. Another win for the Mountain Project App! With little info we just headed for the sunniest bit of […]
Socorro and The Box
Heading south we more or less stumbled upon The Box near Socorro. Another win for the Mountain Project App! With little info we just headed for the sunniest bit of […]
Volcanoes and time to head south
We camped half way up the Sandia Crest, hoping (rather than expecting! ) to climb on one of the impressive crags at its summit. Temperatures around -5C overnight put paid […]
Snow in Santa Fe – It’s Breaking Bad
We awoke to a steady fluttering of snow and a half inch dusting of white across the campground and surrounding desert. Snow in the desert? Well Santa Fe is at […]
Time for a rest day – Culture stop.
Impending rain and weary arms coincided for once for a perfectly timed rest day. First on the cultural itinerary was the Los Alamos Bradbury Museum, giving an insight into how […]
More climbing in the Jemez Mountains
We were so enchanted by our trip to the Jemez Mountains that we had another couple of days there. Only a 30 mins drive from the gorgeous Juniper Campground at […]
Valles Caldera and Jemez Valley
…This is where all that ash came from – about a million years ago an eruption hundreds of times bigger than Mt St Helens dumped a couple of cubic miles […]
Bandelier National Monument
… and when it gets a bit chilly to climb the nearby Bandelier National Monument offers the chance to explore ancient ancestral Pueblo dwellings carved from much the same stuff […]
Los Alamos – White Rock
Los Alamos is of course famed as the site of the Manhattan Project to develop the first Atom Bomb. The Los Alamos National Laboratory now dominates the Mesa top with […]
Texas – Palo Duro Canyon
Texas is BIG and of course everything in it is supersized. Just nipping across the panhandle is a couple of hundred miles and there’s very little to break the endless […]
Route 66 – Tulsa to Albuquerque
From Horseshoe Canyon Ranch to the next significant climbing area in New Mexico is about 850 miles and about 15 hours driving at RV pace. Happily the route runs along […]
Horseshoe Canyon Ranch – Arkansas
To be honest, I didn’t really know where Arkansas was until we stumbled into it on crossing the Mighty Mississippi. In fact I’m not sure I really understood that Arkansas […]
Five Things we’ve learned about The South
There’s a trend for lazy journalists to fill print space with ill informed and clichéd observations, and to somehow make this look respectable by putting them in a numbered list… […]
Graceland, Memphis
Having dropped into the White House to see the President, it only seemed appropriate to drop by the Pink House to pay our respects to The King. There’s free entry […]
Nashville – Music City
Faced with a 700 mile drive to the next climbing area we decided to break the journey in Nashville. A fun half day of quality music and beer made it […]
Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
There’s quite a concentration of crags around Chattanooga, and we only have time to sample one of them, so we chose Foster Falls following recommendations from a bunch of Tennessee […]
Big, Monster and Tipsy
I can’t leave Obed without mentioning our other hosts – Big, Monster and Tipsy. They’d have you believe that they are basically in charge, and they certainly treat the surrounding […]
Del and Marti’s Lilly Pad
The climbing here is great, but the really stellar attraction is the scene at the campground. Del and Marti have been welcoming climbers onto their patch of Tennessee paradise for […]
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