i am looking for climbing partners. i prefer trad but im open to sport and bouldering. i have a rack and all gear needed no crash pad though. If anyone needs info let me know i have climbed in arkansas for 4 years. ill climb with pretty much anyone as long as you can belay. i lead trad up to 5.9 and 5.11 on sport. im looking to climb a lot. shoot me a message or my number is 479-879-2908

austin

Austin,
How ya doing. I'm traveling across the states im from australia and plan on coming through horse shoe canyon on my way to horse pens 40 and Chattanooga. Red river! Iim currently in Vegas and will be heading of to Colorado for a few weeks and will be heading of mid to late may if you need a partner to climb with still let me know i wanna climb as much as I can over next few months and if I can't get on rope I'll boulder!! I've no rope and no phone but have harness and belay device, traveling makes it hard to carry all. I'll be pitching tents as accommodation in the areas Ill be climbing in.mlet me know if I should get in touch with you when I'm in the area?
Cheers
Roger.S.

I live in Nashville and climb at the Obed or Chattanooga just about every weekend when the weather is good. Let me know if you want to meet up!

Roger let me know for sure. im trying to climb as much as possible before i head to Colorado May 27th.

austin

Dude, you are headed to the Southeast at the exact wrong time of year.

+1. heh.

climbing in the heat is a lot tougher physically and mentally but if you like to climb its not really that bad it just makes you tougher. but yeah hints why im heading to colorado at the end of may

Howdy folks,

Heading up to Arkansas/HCR and wanted to get the latest update on the ticks and chiggers.

I know my parent's place (near Harrison/Marshall) hasn't received any real rain in the last few months so I'm hoping the ticks and chiggers will be not so bad.

How is it up there?

Also hoping to check out Stack Rock this visit. I've got the Fennel/RCA and Frisbe/AR guidebooks so I think I'm good on directions, but any additional info/hints would be appreciated.

bugs are out. the only bugs that ever bother me at horseshoe are some type of fly. ticks and chiggers are out for sure. i never get them while climbing but i got a few ticks walking through a field to go fishing

We went out to Stack Rock yesterday and the vegetation was THICK.

We found a few ticks on us from the hike in, but the hike out (around the east side of the Rock) was full-on jungle bush-wacking and we had 10 to 20 ticks crawling on us by the time we got back to the truck. Spent the next 10 minutes turning our clothes inside-out, flicking them off, and checking each other.

It was a little bit hot for my wife but we had some fun. Need to go back there in the early spring or fall to really enjoy the place.

i would stick with sams and hcr this time of year