Showing posts with label Red Rock Gorge KY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Rock Gorge KY. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Rock Climbing photos


This could just be titled EEEK! I was expecting baby climbing stuff and this is what they tried us on. Needless to say this one was a bit much for both of us. Here I am about 10 feet or so off the ground working a "pitch" that I did manage to climb. It was only a 5.5 difficulty as opposed to that one on the left that is a 5.9 but that was HARD ENOUGH for me. This is ARchie working the same sandstone bluff. Then here's our photo at the raffle where I won a WICKED nice backpack from Mountain Hardware and on the left is the Uclimb group we were with. The guides were all great and we do hope to do some gym climbing before taking it outdoors again.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Rock climbing or Middle Age Crazy?

The link is to the area where we had two days of rock climbing classes last weekend. I thought you know it is titled UClimb "learn to climb" so baby stuff right?

Wrong.......... climbs are graded from 5.0 being the easiest and just past scrambling without equipment to 5.15 which is the hardest one in the world currently that has been climbed ( of course that will change). I figured we would start with 5.1's or 5.2's etc.

Try 5.7s or 5.8s which of course NO WAY COULD I GET more than 3-5 feet up. Talk about banged up. Archie and myself did however manage to climb 3 5.6 climbs in Red Rock Gorge KY.

Will we do it again ?

You betcha. Probably in a gym though before going back on a rock wall.

Vger and Tory Running Wilder