{"id":238,"date":"2005-06-29T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=238"},"modified":"2011-02-17T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:23:26","slug":"summersville-tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Then the storm would pass, and they would go back to their primitive lives, chasing rabbits and impregnating their womenfolk."},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s most mediocre climbers have discovered a dangerous new way to defy gravity — free soloing above a lake, which sometimes has swell from passing motorboats, which makes it really extreme, and totally hardcore.<\/p>\n

I’ve just seen the future of climbing. It’s not on Everest, or a wind-lashed Patagonian spire, nor is it on some gargantuan wall in Yosemite Valley. It’s in West Virginia, on some sandstone cliffs above Summersville Lake. <\/p>\n

I insinuated myself into a clan of cragrats, practitioners of a new mode of climbing called “deepwater soloing.” I was bobbing in the swell from passing speedboats at the mouth of a gaping cavern, watching the 31-year-old American phenomenon Terence ‘Vegas’ Kudo perform on an as yet unclimbed route he was calling ‘Vegas in a Blender’.<\/p>\n

…. back to what you were doing people, there’s nothing to see here.<\/p>\n

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Oh, and we did things on dry land too. I’m not sure why. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun … to play in a suntrap.<\/p>\n

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Today’s title brought to your courtesy of a random quote from johnnyb<\/a>. Today’s images brought to you courtesy of the EOFSO – Equal Opportunities for Stalkers Organisation, as well as Vegas (first image, and squad of ninjas), Boer<\/a> (second image, sound effects and staff twirling skills).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world’s most mediocre climbers have discovered a dangerous new way to defy gravity — free soloing above a lake, which sometimes has swell from passing motorboats, which makes it really extreme, and totally hardcore. I’ve just seen the future of climbing. It’s not on Everest, or a wind-lashed Patagonian spire, nor is it on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,17],"tags":[38,1541,560,597,40,561,256,314],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing","category-general","category-trip-reports","tag-bouldering","tag-climbing","tag-deep-water-soloing","tag-extreme","tag-rock","tag-summersville-lake","tag-usa","tag-west-virginia"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["climbing<\/a>","general<\/a>","trip reports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["climbing<\/span>","general<\/span>","trip reports<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["bouldering<\/a>","climbing<\/a>","deep water soloing<\/a>","extreme<\/a>","rock<\/a>","summersville lake<\/a>","usa<\/a>","west virginia<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bouldering<\/span>","climbing<\/span>","deep water soloing<\/span>","extreme<\/span>","rock<\/span>","summersville lake<\/span>","usa<\/span>","west virginia<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"3","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 21 years ago","modified":"Updated 15 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 29.6.2005","modified":"Updated on 17.2.2011"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 29.6.2005 11:24 am","modified":"Updated on 17.2.2011 5:23 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}