Three foot crawl space. Yeup, Craig is detail oriented and checks everywhere. First use of sideways monkey when it was literally the best form of locomotion :)
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Photos
A house!
Had the first walk thru today…
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Lower Manhattan
Couple of shots from the Brooklyn ferry leaving Govenor’s Island last weekend during the Art of Retreat event #artofretreat2016
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Dessert
The waiter here delivered the most inconceivably amazing dessert descriptions in the history of culinary overindulgence. Pears, Tiramisu, Cheesecake… somewhere on the upper east side of Manhattan. yowza! (Coversation and company was *nearly* as good. ;)
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Sunset
It’s not an ending… it’s a new beginning.
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Various routes from day three
Various photos of a few of the routes we worked on day three, in the Upper Gorge. This area is “trad[itional]” climbing. In many areas, hangers are bolted into the rock for clipping in safety gear. In this area, you have to bring your own hardware which you temporarily insert into the nooks and crannies of the rock.
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Birds’ Nest
Great bit of play at the end of day one.
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Adult Life
Where’s the Puffin today? …en route to Govenor’s Island for first full day of Art of Retreat.
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Middle gorge
It’s hard to convey the sheer scale of the rock faces in Red River Gorge. These photos are from the walk into the Middle Gorge. About 20 minutes of steep hiking, and suddenly these ~200 feet tall rock faces appear overhead through the trees.
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The hallway of inspiration
“Oceans destroy cities!” Also in the hallway, “Your butt looks good in that outfit.” Why thank you! :)
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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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