“Oceans destroy cities!” Also in the hallway, “Your butt looks good in that outfit.” Why thank you! :)
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Photos
Doing stuff
Guggenheim. Just a quick peek in the lobby :)
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NYC
A b-e-a-utiful day in THE city!
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Beautiful block from day one
On our first day in Red River Gorge, we drove to a nearby “roadside crag”. After a brief walk in, we encountered this magnificent block covered in 10a+ routes.
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More spectacular shots from the plane
As I mentioned earlier, the first flight left before dawn provided an extended (because flying westward) pre-dawn and sunrise show. When I fly, I always try to look for optical phenomenon and this flight was the most spectacular I have ever seen.
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Final, random shots of Paris
We only had a few days to catch a glimpse of Paris… I suspect we will return some day.
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Arc de Triomphe
Yes!
What do you at 1am when you’re on the way to the airport for a 6am flight?? …got off the highway at the airport exit and BAM!!
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Third route
Once we had our top rope up, we spent the rest of our daylight here. Staright up, dihedral with a 5.8 finger jam crack. Paste your feet on the right and bury your hands… four attempts, but I couldn’t quite pull this one off.
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…then
Straight up the middle of this. Blank and mossy until you get to this unique feature mid-face.
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Second route
Then we moved a bit left on that same wall. This was crazy hard to make the first move to get up onto the wall.
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Straight up
This wall was just a few degrees from vertical. Standing on tiny features like edge of a nickel. The upper lip is about 200 feet, and roofed out at least forty feet. Route started with this sheer, wet, mossy wall with a fist-jam crack (insert entire hand, make fist so it can’t come out and the walk up the wall :) Spent all day climbing all over this wall, and then one other route.
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Gorge-ous!
Rained all night and all morning… finally cleared up and now this terrible drive thru some lousy national forest or something… #whereAreTheRocks !
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Photos from the Louvre
Montmartre
First up
Cook breakfast and get ready for day two!
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Few shots from Friday
If you ask me, this was a pretty sweet place to start climbing! Super easy warm up… before we moved onto some much harder stuff. I can just barely climb the “easy” climbs here. Lots of insane over-hanging stuff that is way beyond me.
I did about 6 climbs in the afternoon before I was totally “burnt”. A couple of them were a grade or more above my best climbs the last time Mike and I were on the rocks. Really happy about that; Means my general “get in shape” continues to yield broad (health, life, parkour, climbing) benefits without my having to hyper-focus on specific sports.
Still a member of the Vertical Club… YES!
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You sure about this Mike?
First day at Red River Gorge. Mike picked me up at the airport and after a few provisioning stops… A short hike, hot and humid… but the grip on these rocks is awesome!
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Multipurpose
The Puffin doubles as a leg rest when lounging awaiting a ride! Hello Kentucky! I am in you. #whereisthepuffin
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