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After looking at my blog I was surprised to see that it has only been a few months since I last posted something. By my account it had been much longer. So what’s new? Well I haven’t been climbing much and given that I generally write about climbing exploits I have simply not posted in a while. Then this chick started pressuring me to simply post something fresh… So here it is:

May I finished another mediocre semester of school and headed to the New River Gorge in ol’West Virginia for the New River Rendezvous. And to say it was dope would be the understatement of the century – well maybe the week – that is if you don’t listen to talk radio… any who, it was awesome!

Over the five days I was there for the event it was not raining a total of one day and fifteen minutes but that didn’t stop anyone we knew from having a great time and getting a fair amount of climbing in on some of the east coast’s best cliffs.

Now I know that some people are going to give me shit about this (in fact some already have) but I think it’s safe to say that in the future when the time comes to choose Red or New; I’m choosing the New! Now I know the New doesn’t have as many established sport routes as the Red and there isn’t any Miguel’s or Linda’s but fuck that because what the New does have is where it’s at!

First: there is still a lifetimes worth of climbing within a few min drive of Fayetteville and Summersville which means access to the town amenities that the Red lacks.

Second: Water! Who doesn’t love having the option to drop their harness and belay device on a hot day and go jump in the lake and do a little soloing?

Third: Potential; at the New there’s a lot of it and not just for new bold sport and trad routes but for bouldering galore. But this is a post about the rendezvous.

Because I’m unsure where to start I’ll simply avoid it by posting pictures…there aren’t many of climbing so……

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So I need to post really bad, but I’m trying to build a new website and that takes up a lot of my time. I also started a training schedule that should take up no less than 15 hours a week for the first month then more later… With that said, I thought it were best that I go ahead and post a few photos from this past weekend’s Triple Crown at Horse Pens 40 in Steele, Alabama. This is how it went down (thru the lens of my camera):