A long 7.5 mile hike to Mount Mitchell Massif with Angie. We ran into the legendary rock climber Tony Mayse along the way. If you want to learn rock climbing from an expert go to guideforaday.com.
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I said it then and I’ll say it now, “Crapshoot is the funnest way down Elk Mountain.”
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Day Two of De Cooper and I scouting Crapshoot.
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De Cooper and I started a long overdue scout of an area we call Crapshoot. For the last two years, De has had this idea of combining this tough hike with another tough hike we call The Chavez.
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I lead a hike to Spanish Canyon on Sunday. I turned right when I should have turned left. What a great mistake that turned out to be.
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I took my friend, and fellow actor, Theresa on a hike to Crab Eyes. De brought Dot and Hank on their first hike since the pups were born. It was great day.
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I went on a great hike to Granite Mountain in my beloved Wichita Mountains with Angie LaPaglia, Paulina Ćwik, Britney Neubecker, and De Cooper. It’s a longer trek than some with a lot of small spaces to crawl through. At some point the term “Women of Rock” came to mind as I had this amazing adventure with three tough women.
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My friend, the proliferant John Reenan, asked me the weekend before if I had ever explored or ascended the northwest part of Elk Mountain. I realized I never had. I was freed up this past Sunday morning so I decided to take a solo hike there so I could tell John that I had indeed explored that area.
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My girlfriend Angie had a friend in from London who had seen our pictures and wanted to check out the Wichita Mountains for herself. We decided to take her on one of the toughest hikes in the refuge. We call it “The Chavez.”
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I hiked with my friend JB on September 9, 2017 to Mount Lincoln. I finally found the spot I have been looking for. JB alley-ooped his pack into 50 foot crevasse. That spawned a return hike a few hours later in a rescue attempt.
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I did a long solo hike to Mount Lincoln on Memorial Day. I was still searching for a way under the big boulder on the northern side of Mount Lincoln.
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I went on a solo hike and ended up meeting my friend De Cooper at Spider Split cave. He had a couple of newbs with him. Here are the color photos from that hike.
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I went on a solo hike and ended up meeting my friend De Cooper at Spider Split cave. Here are the black & white photos from that hike.
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Claire Springer and I hiked Mount Lincoln from edge to edge looking for this elusive spot she crawled through five years before. It was our second attempt. We failed to find it, but we found a whole lot more.
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I took the day off work to watch the eclipse in my beloved Wichita Mountains with some friends. The eclipse was lackluster. The view was not.
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I hiked solo for nine miles on Sunday. I did an afternoon hike to Mount Mitchell Massif in my beloved Wichita Mountains. I didn’t see another human being the whole time. It’s probably because the humidity was brutal.
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Four of us climbed up Glass Mountain Peak before running into John Reenan and most of his brood. We all went up the south side of Elk Mountain to Apple and Pear. We made it off before we all ran out of water.
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JB Workman and I took my daughter, Riley Clark, and our good friend Emily Etherton to Crab Eyes for the first time and we made some friends along the way.
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On the most humid day of the summer so far, four of us struck hiked anyway. The day had an average humidity of 87% with temperatures reaching the low nineties. Luckily, we all enjoy each others company.
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Myself, Claire Springer, and Angie LaPaglia explored the north side of Mount Lincoln in our beloved Wichita Mountains on June 25, 2017. Angie came close to an angry rattlesnake but I think all of us would agree the risk was worth the reward that day.
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