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 […]
Category Archives: The South
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 […]
The Obed – Wild and Scenic National River
We’re now in Tennessee, about an hour north of Knoxville, and climbing on Sandstone crags along the Obed and Clear Creek Rivers. Whilst generally not as high as the crags […]
The Beer Trailer
…but, be warned, Powell County (where we’re staying and where much of the climbing is as well as the climbers meeting spot at Miguels Pizza emporium ) is DRY. Yup […]
Roadside, Bruise Brothers and The Gallery – Great climbing in The Red
We’ve been pretty impressed with the climbing in The Red. The walls are scattered over an area of over a hundred square miles, tucked away down forest roads or trails. […]
Natural Bridge State Park
Despite the awesome rock in The Red we managed to find the self control for a rest day, and it wasn’t even raining! Jake take note. The Natural Bridge State […]
Into “The Red”
No, we haven’t run out of dosh – just moved onto Kentucky and The Red River Gorge. It’s the annual fundraising bash – Rocktoberfest and also a long weekend, so […]
Climbing at The New – Bubb City, Summerville and Sandstonia
So the crags can be a bit tricky to get to, but once you get there you find some impressively featured sandstone. Steep – just the wrong side of vertical, […]
New River Gorge – Out with the cold and in with “The New”
What a difference a day makes – or a day plus a couple of hundred miles. Heading over to the New River Gorge in West Virginia the sun is out, […]
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
We’ve arrived on the East Coast, but so has Hurricane Joaquin. Luckily the really windy bit is camped out over the Bahamas, but it is still managing to scoop up […]
