Thread: Rock Climbing

Did a search and didnt find any threads about this subject and wanted to start one up.

I was just wondering who here likes to climb. It is one of my obsessions and i love being outdoors in general.
Any kind counts for this topic... bouldering, sport, trad, etc...

I mainly boulder but when i can find the time to go somewhere good like the New River Gorge in West Virginia i will take all my climbing sport and trad climbing gear. When i cant get to the outdoors I go to the climbing gym. Usually two - three times a week. I hope to get settled down somewhere close to amazing climbing but for now, the gym will do.

My favorite bouldering locations are Rock Town, Georgia and Boone, North Caroline (Grandmother Mountain)

Also feel free to post any pics of climbing.

I enjoy climbing as well, although it's pretty flat here and there's not a whole lot of fun natural stuff to climb on. fortunately, I grew up near the tallest indoor climbing gym in the world and had some pretty fun times there. (of the top of my head, I think their tallest indoor route was 118 feet and a brisk 5.6 or so) haven't been in several years, though.

I like doing the indoor stuff, but I'm not too much for outdoor climbing. I'll gladly jump it all on a dirtbike however. Go figure...

In my younger days I did a lot of cave exploring. Its not rock climbing but you use a lot of the same techniques and in some circumstances depending on how you look at it I guess it is rock climbing.

tbs-> hey, as far as i'm concerned, spelunking is exactly the same, only darker and wetter

I have been taking it easy this year because of an ankle sprain, but if you are ever in the Phoenix area give me a shout, I have extra shoes harnesses etc. sport/trad mostly and hardly indoors, I'm to cheap for that. I'm rockclimber057 @ rockclimbing.com

TBS, i have climbed on the roofs of caves cause its like an overhanging boulder problem which is what i enjoy. So i would say that you are a climber

118 feet indoors is nuts. I would love to try that someday. Is it in Texas?

And Sancho, if I'm ever in the area, which is a possibility considering golf course construction takes me a lot of places, ill hit you up and we'll hit the rocks. Nice picture too.

This is one of my favorite problems at Rock Town, GA. I still have yet to finish it though, it goes out over a lip and up some. I can only get to the lip

Originally Posted by The Dude

TBS, i have climbed on the roofs of caves cause its like an overhanging boulder problem which is what i enjoy. So i would say that you are a climber

118 feet indoors is nuts. I would love to try that someday. Is it in Texas?

And Sancho, if I'm ever in the area, which is a possibility considering golf course construction takes me a lot of places, ill hit you up and we'll hit the rocks. Nice picture too.

yeah, outside lewisville, the place is called stoneworks
Stone Works Indoor Rock Climbing Gym Home

I never got to do any rock climbing but I climbed many a column in my younger days. I am in the three pix on the left hand side and I took the ones I am not in back when I used to work for a living.