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Climbing Areas Archives: Red River Gorge
Southern Smoke Video Now On MVM
Spencer Victory’s video of Joe Kinder and Brad Weaver doing the first and second ascents of Southern Smoke (5.14c) at the Red River Gorge is now up on MVM.
Update On Kentucky’s Bridge To Nowhere
Just a quick post to update everyone on a situation that was brewing last year. You’ll remember that there was some talk about building a bridge through one of the Red River Gorge’s more popular areas Muir Valley. Thanks to a positive response from over 100 climbers it looks like this is unlikely to happen. […]
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Climbing Video: Brad Weaver Sending “Fifty Words For Pump Right” (5.14c)
Anytime there is an up and coming climber from the midwest, you KNOW I am going to pimp them hard. Brad Weaver is a climber from Bloomington, IL that had a great 2008. Most notably he repeated Fifty Words For Pump Right (5.14c) and he did the 2nd ascent of Joe Kinder’s Southern Smoke (5.14c), both routes at Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Here is some video of Weaver’s send of Fifty Words (in the summer no less!)
News & Notes: 1/6/2009
News & Notes from Shawn Diamond, Alex Johnson, Matt Segal, Matt Wilder, Tim Clifford and much more…
Joe Kinder Adds A New 5.14c To The Red River Gorge
Joe Kinder has opened a new 5.14c called Southern Smoke at Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.
Fifty Words For Chump
A couple of weeks back, there was a minor controversy at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky where two of the bolt hangers on Fifty Words For Pump (5.14c) were flattened by Adam Taylor. He apparently was unhappy over the existence of said bolts along with the (alleged) stealing of his project draws. A minor […]
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