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skywalker1
Trad climber
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Jan 16, 2018 - 12:47am PT
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SLR,
That video is rad thanks! That boat is BOSS! Watched many on the New (was a video boater) its definitely 3D boating. You squirt folks...y'all are weird. I like to float a little higher! LOL.
I once saw Jim pass me on the Upper Yough as if he was on a lake, meanwhile I was catching my breath. and I was terrified.:-) I felt very humble. Don't know him personally but I've heard campfire stories....
Cheers!
S...
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 16, 2018 - 07:47am PT
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Finally got out there last year. The New was like paradise. I can't comment on the rest of the state.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 16, 2018 - 08:08am PT
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You people in California have absolutely no idea
HaHaHa! Yeah, West Virginny has it all over the Sierras, Yosemite, Josh, Castle Crags, etc. And JTM’s pics don’t show the bugs!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 16, 2018 - 09:07am PT
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^^^^ Dood, you crack me up, ABSOLUTELY!
But on the whole I feel sorry for you.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 16, 2018 - 12:46pm PT
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jan 16, 2018 - 03:58pm PT
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Beauty pics SLR!
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Jan 16, 2018 - 04:01pm PT
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Nice pics,love the Sods.
Reilly,you forgot horny toads,lol. Had one attack my hand on Triple S once.
Blackwater River,Spruce Knob,Seneca Creek Canyon,Whitegrass,Elkins,The Big Sandy,North Fork Trail,the Cheat,Gauley ,Potomac Highlands,Coopers Rock,yep,move along ,nothing to see or do in WV
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Jan 16, 2018 - 05:02pm PT
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Yep. Almost Haiti, indeed.
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Bethesda
Trad climber
Bethesda
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2018 - 07:22pm PT
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Haiti is actually supposed to have some stunningly gorgeous areas. At least those that haven't been deforested. But I suppose with our mountain top removal policies we can't criticize.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 17, 2018 - 03:28am PT
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West Virginia is also known for its mountain music festivals - 3 and 4 days of camping and music by jam bands like The String Cheese Incident, Galactic, and West Virginia's home-grown jam band The Recipe.
One of the best music fests was held on the property of the Universal Church of Love & Music (until the church was raided by the DEA and shut down).
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jan 17, 2018 - 06:44am PT
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SLR...Is your sister still single...?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 17, 2018 - 08:48am PT
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asked the clerk at harpers if they had a real butter as all I could find on display after checking both stores was the fake sh#t that tastes horrible and stops your heart. " real butter? yall got to go to Elkins for real butter" we usually get down there in mid April. They are an easy month ahead of us with the growing season and certainly could run hot houses most of the winter yet there is NEVER any local produce to be had. We see some meat farms but no local meat or dairy in the stores and no local produce. If you can find a tomatoe it is grey,tough and from south America. still love the place :)
The best Tomato you will find in west Virginia. great camping and music killer climbing dumb as fck locals
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Jan 18, 2018 - 10:05am PT
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Bethesda is a village in North Wales.
Anders, when I lived outside Tregarth (small colliery cottage) and worked in Beaumaris (Anglesey) as a press officer for a outdoor management development company (Cornelyn Manor) I used to do my laundry and shopping in Bethesda.
Some great climbing in north Wales.
My mom is from West Virginia, family farm "Twilight" near Wheeling, though Papa Casey was a judge. A large family and most were liberal, after retiring from the bench my grandfather gave his time for free to help the coal miners and steelworkers fight the bosses, and as I have mentioned before, there is a statue of him in Pittsburgh.
I have only been in the Wheeling area and the last time was in 1981 for a cousin's wedding (and not to a relative, hah hah), and most of my cousins are liberal. So I do not know what the rest of the state is like.
Seneca Rocks has a bit of history, correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army use the area for training in preparation for fighting in mountainous areas in WW2? And I think perhaps Raffi Bedayn (RIP, a real nice guy) was an instructor or something.
I alway wonder what Seneca Rocks would be like to climb at. And the New River Gorge apparently has some great rock.
Montani semper liberi
EDIT ran across my first copperhead on the farm, at least rattlers warn you, sometimes.
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Bethesda
Trad climber
Bethesda
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 18, 2018 - 12:11pm PT
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Seneca, for location, has some of the airiest-feeling climbing in the country. And the pitches, though short, are excellent. Not to be missed, although, as I said, not a multi-pitch area. Particularly excellent for moderate trad 7s and 8s, which, IMHO, are worth doing even if you climb at much higher grades. My personal favorite is Sixths Sense, a soft 10 that actually protects much better at the overhang crux than it feels.
Seneca is also excellent for rope-soloing, because of the many snchors at the bases of routes. In contrast, I have found the Gunks to be a poor area for rope-soloing.
By the way, Seneca is mostly a trad area; very few bolted routes.
My wife once stepped on a copperhead on the Seneca trail, near the river (copperheads like to be near the water, I have observed, unlike rattlers -- this may not be true). She was tired, it was the end of the day, she was not looking what she was doing. The snake went one direction, she went in another. So in this instance the copperhead lived up to its reputation for being a timid snake. I doubt a rattler would have reacted in the same way. Although plenty of Virginia climbers have been bitten by copperheads, esp. at Great Falls, Va.
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MarkGrubb
climber
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Jan 18, 2018 - 01:18pm PT
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Having lived a long time in both SoCal and in WV, the size and number of shitholes in CA far exceeds the number size and number of shitholes in WV. Tehachapi, my current home is a close approximation of my similarly-sized sized Appalachian hometowntown, Bluefield.
Same could be said for the relative number of as#@&%es in both places.
If I could pick between socialist CA.gov and Free WV.gov it would be the latter.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 19, 2018 - 05:12am PT
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I alway wonder what Seneca Rocks would be like to climb at. Slick as ice when it's wet
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Bethesda
Trad climber
Bethesda
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2018 - 06:05am PT
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You seem to speak from personal experience.
Vulnerable to lightening strikes during thunderstorms too. And if you are climbing on the east side, you can't see the weather approaching from the west.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 19, 2018 - 08:23am PT
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And if you are climbing on the east side, you can't see the weather approaching from the west.
Boy, howdy! That’s just like being on the N Face of the Piz Badile and not being able to see the boomers moving up from the Italian plains to the south, with the minor difference being the Badile is a 4000’ face. 🤓
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Bethesda
Trad climber
Bethesda
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2018 - 11:01am PT
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Yes, well the Seneca east face is only about one hundred feet high but there is a valley off to the west that funnels storms straight at the formation. And they can move in very quickly and then you are in for a frightening time if there is lightning.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 19, 2018 - 02:03pm PT
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east face definatly more than 100ft.. lost of 2 pitch routes on that side.
seems like the 2nd (good pitches) are 30m but there is some 4th class and then a 10m pitch to get to that long belay ledge....
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