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April 28, 2006
Red River Gorge Rawkus Rendezvous: Video Preview
Shady Grove Steeps! Red River Gorge, KY
Slade, KY.- Wes Powell will preview his yet-unreleased climbing video "Homestyle"at the 2006 Rawkus Rendezvous on Memorial Day Weekend. The video will be shown at Miguel's Pizza Saturday evening, May 27, 2006. Try to win the trash scavenging contest-the top prize is a gift certificate for a pair of LaSportiva climbing shoes. Saturday evening brings music with techno DJ and climber, DJ Mike. On Sunday there will be an outdoor climbing competition held at the Pendergrass-Murray Recreational Preserve. The comp will have beginner/intermediate, advanced, elite/open, and master's categories. In the evening on Sunday the entertainment at Miguel's will include a pizza eating contest, the original acoustic music of Miguel's neighbor Neville Pohl, and the acoustic rock music of Matt Martini.
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April 26, 2006
NC: New Parking Lot for Moore’s Wall!
Hanging Rock State Park, NC.- Climbers visiting Moore’s Wall can now enjoy a nice parking lot that was recently installed by Hanging Rock State Park. The parking lot was designed specifically for climbers.
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Photo by WiredNut © 2006
The parking lot can accomodate 15-20 cars, so take care not to overwhelm its capacity and carpool from Torys Den if needed. In the future, the State Park plans on installing an information kiosk, a pit toilet and make final upgrades to the trail that connects the parking area to the existing trails of Moore’s Wall. Continue for directions.
Directions: From Winston Salem take Hwy 52N to exit 122 (Moore - RJR Dr). Head east until you hit Rt 66 and take a left. Follow Rt 66 to Moore’s Spring Rd and take a right. A half a mile later you’ll take a right onto Mickey Rd, then a right onto Charlie Young Rd. Go 3/4 mile (passing the parking area for Torys Den), and take a right onto a dirt road called Hooker Farm Rd. Follow this for 1/2 mile or less and take the first right (no name or sign) Parking is found a short distance beyond the right turn. The parking area is gravel and is on level ground.
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April 21, 2006
POSTPONED: Laurel Knob Trail Day, Now Sat. April 29
Brevard, NC. - Due to the horrible weather forecast, the trail work day is rescheduled for Saturday, April 29. Meet at the Panthertown Valley western parking area at 9am. Car pool if possible. 
Jeramiah off Soul Ram, RRG
Photo by Wes Allen© 2006Bring trail building tools, gloves, WATER, food and a sense of adventure. If you have never been to Laurel you are in for a treat. Once the trail is completed, the Laurel Knob will be open for business!
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Directions: Take US 64 east from Cashiers, towards Brevard, for 1.8 miles until you reach Cedar Creek Road (SR1120) on the left. Take Cedar Creek Road for 2.3 miles until you reach Breedlove Rd on your right. Breedlove Road winds back towards the valley for 3.3 miles where the pavement ends and dirt road begins. Follow the dirt road to the parking area.
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April 19, 2006
Seneca Rocks: Cinco De Mayo Party
Kelly smooths the Wall of Elevens at Torrent Falls
Photo by Wes Allen© 2006
Seneca Rocks, WV.- Saturday, May 6, the Gendarme hosts a party to kick off the season. Check www.seneca-rocks.com for details! Got a good salsa recipe? Enter it in the Salsa Showdown.
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April 03, 2006
Red River Gorge: Muir Valley Opens Partially
Steve hangs on at the Meadow.
Photo by The WiredNut © 2006Slade, KY.- The Webers have reopened sectors in Muir Valley to climbing. This is from Rick Weber:
We're Back!... well partially, anyway.
With the efforts of a big group of volunteers working with our developers, these areas of Muir Valley are now re-opened: All of Rebel Camp Branch, including Bruise Brothers Wall and Sunnyside; Johnnies Wall, Tectonics Wall, and the Indy Wall (all of these in the Tantroft Hollow). Part of the Great Wall has been inspected and we hope to open it and the Great Arch area tomorrow -- depending on the amount of help we receive.
Here's the rule: Please climb ONLY those routes that are marked with either a yellow or green ribbon attached to the first bolt. Please do NOT move ribbons or climb routes that have not been inspected.
We are entering the data collected during the inspection into our route database at this time. And, we are very pleased with the condition we found the hardware in on these very heavily used routes. Dozens of bolted hangers and only one loose hanger found. No finger-loose bolts, and most of the bolts were found to be at or beyond 40 foot-pounds of torque. We Loctited EVERY quicklink to eliminate the problem of quicklinks being snitched off the climbs. When it becomes time to replace them, we will simply bolt-cutter them off. We also removed all the bolts on Methane Rising on the Bruise Brothers Wall.
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