Category: Rock Climbing

Finding Balance
What’s it like to live the climbing life, traveling overseas to summit huge mountains? We ask NRG climber and traveler Pat Goodman.
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How To Build an Adventurer
A replay of a worthwhile article on getting kids outdoors to learn to do the things we love to do.
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Three Authors, Three Picks: River, Rock, Trail
Three New River Gorge area authors pick their favorite routes, runs, and trails in the NRG
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Stone Cold
The polar vortex of winter added a whole new level of adventure to the New River Gorge
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Mix It Up in the NRG
Five multisport days that combine the best the New River Gorge has to offer.
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Vous Review
Lynn Hill, dyno comp, arm wrestling, juggling, and some climbing at New River Rendezvous X
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Lifetime Achievement Award for Two New River Gorge Climbing Advocates
The Access Fund awards Gene and Maura Kistler a lifetime achievement award for climbing advocacy and stewardship. Well done.
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Amazing Grace: Women Climbers of the NRG
Beautiful Nuttall Sandstone, camaraderie, and digging being different keeps a core of elite women rock climbers at the New River Gorge.
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Million Dollar Man: Roger Calls It Quits
The sign as you enter the campground reads Rocky Top Retreat, but everybody knows it simply as Roger’s. “Hi, I’m Roger,” were the first words you heard upon arrival, whether that was a few months or 10 years ago. Located near the top of Kaymoor crag, Roger’s campground has been the home base of thousands […]
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Climber’s Paradise
“Roger’s has closed. The timing is perfect,” says Gene Kistler, co-owner of Waterstone Outdoors and President of New River Alliance of Climbers. We are hiking through a 39 acre parcel of land on the North side of the New River Gorge just uphill of the National River boundary and Junkyard climbing area. The American Alpine […]
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Unsung Classics: Choice New River Climbs that Never Get Crowded
Grab a copy of Mike Williams’ New River Gorge Rock Climbs. Feel that heft? The book almost generates its own gravity well, much of it coming from the massive quantity of ink used to print the little red stars that denote route quality. The New River Gorge is packed with climbs like the beautiful Zag […]
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Some Like It Hot: Where to Climb When the Tempurature is Sky High
Climbers, tough as we are, are a bit sensitive to the weather. When the air stays miraculously dry and the mercury hovers in the 60s and 70s, the send tide rises like a tsunami. But when the air grows hot and muggy, it feels like the pull of gravity has doubled, and some of us […]
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