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April 10th, 2010
Cooper's Rock, PA
Left the storeroom at 10am and Returned at 6pm.
12 people in three cars and probably half of those had never been
climbing.
Beautiful weather, climbed all day, everything went without a hitch.
-F. Kleshchev |
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September 13th, 2009
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September 12th, 2009 |
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September 6th - 7th, 2008
New River Gorge
After a very fun week of five days of work jammed into four
because of the labor day getting out of Pittsburgh for Saturday and
Sunday is just what we all needed. Fedya, Maryanna, Lisa, and I met
Saturday morning to head down to the New. We packed up the car and
three hours later we arrived at Summersville Lake to do some sport
climbing. We started off and got a good number of climbs in before
the weather started to get very ominous. We moved our stuff under a
large roof and decided to go for a swim in the lake. We got lucky
and the weather never really rolled in and we kept climbing until it
got dark and got back to car by headlamp.
The next morning, after some fun around the campfire with a green
laser pointer we headed out to Tattoo Wall at Bubba City. After a
little bit of trouble finding the climbing area we got there to find
quite a crowd of people, but there were plenty of routes to go
around. Everyone got to tire themselves out. Then came the worst
part of any trip, the part where we head back to Pittsburgh.
-M. Schnall |
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August 29th - September 1st, 2008
Red River Gorge
One week of school down, but not quite swamped with work yet and
there is a three day weekend so staying in Pittsburgh would be a
crime. Kentucky here we come! We headed out on Friday night around
5pm, when we arrived and Miguel's it was more crowed then any of us
had ever seen it. I felt very lucky just to find a parking space and
a spot to put my tent.
The next morning when we woke up with the entire crowd I was a
little bit worried that everything would be swamped, but when we
headed out to Sunbeam Buttress in Muir Valley we did not see another
person all day. We were able to get lots of good climbs in. The
highlight of the day was at the Solarium wall were Tibo started
projecting on a thin overhanging route called Mirage. We finished
ourselves off at the great wall and then headed in for some
extremely yummy Miguel's pizza.
The next day we headed over to roadside in the morning we planned on
just doing a couple routes there and then heading back to Muir to
finish up some projects from the previous day. However the allure of
long overhanging jug hauls was too much. I managed to send pulling
pockets after 3 attempt, Wes and I both crawled and hung our way of
Return of Chris Synder, and Tibo hiked Up Yonder in his usual smooth
style. When we finally made it to Muir we met up with Maryanna, Eric
and Fedya who had head out earlier. We ran down pretty much every
single route at Johnny Wall.
That night we went back ordered more pizza. Over dinner that night a
couple important facts were learned. One English is the one language
were Pineapples are not called Ananas, and two talking about MatLab
and doing riddles over dinner at a climbers campground causes
comments like, "You must be the CMU table."
For our last day we went back to Muir Valley again to wrap of the
some projects. Maryanna put down a very impressive on-sight on Plate
Techtonics and Tibo hopped back on Mirage to give it a redpoint go.
At the end I don't think anyone really wanted to leave, but class
awaits and the beautiful sandstone of the RRG gorge will be there
for next time.
-M. Schnall |
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August 31st, 2008
McConnell's Mills State Park Mathew Mooty, Ameya Kanitkar,
Tamar Melman, Brendan Ryan, and I departed for hiking at McConnells
Mill State Park at noon on Sunday. Amy and Lux also set off for the
park to do some climbing. After the hour drive, we began the hike at
the mill under a sunny blue sky with a temperature in the low 80s.
After hiking along the Gorge Trail for a few hours, we stopped for
lunch on a large rock next to Slippery Rock Creek. Before heading
back, we took advantage of a nice section of the creek to skip some
rocks and discuss the merits of rock skipping as a competitive
sport. At the end of the hike we ran into Lux and Amy, back from
climbing. Back at the mill we watched some kayakers fool around
above the waterfall before returning to Pittsburgh. -E. Goldblum |
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August 24th, 2008
Summer was coming to an end. So we took advantage of the lack of
excuses and went out to Coopers Rock. We made it out around ten with
three cars and more crash bad then have ever come on a single
explores club trip. We arrived and headed over to tilted tree area.
We can into a nice sized crowd from Pitt at the crag, but for the
first time in recent memory CMU outnumbered them. Everyone got in
plenty of good sends. Tibo threw down on Twist-Dah-Hick, and Amy
topped out her first outdoor problems.
-M. Schnall |
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