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Horseshoe Canyon Ranch – Arkansas

October 28, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Five Things we’ve learned about The South

October 25, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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… […]

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Graceland, Memphis

October 25, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Nashville – Music City

October 25, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

October 23, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Big, Monster and Tipsy

October 22, 2015by Dominic 1 Comment

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 […]

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Del and Marti’s Lilly Pad

October 22, 2015by Dominic 1 Comment

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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The Obed – Wild and Scenic National River

October 22, 2015by Dominic 1 Comment

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 […]

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The Beer Trailer

October 15, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

…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 […]

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Roadside, Bruise Brothers and The Gallery – Great climbing in The Red

October 15, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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. […]

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Natural Bridge State Park

October 15, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Into “The Red”

October 11, 2015by Dominic 3 Comments

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 […]

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Climbing at The New – Bubb City, Summerville and Sandstonia

October 7, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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, […]

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New River Gorge – Out with the cold and in with “The New”

October 6, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

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, […]

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In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

October 4, 2015by Dominic 4 Comments

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 […]

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