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Let’s go climb at Rocky Top this Friday. Rocky Top is the local climbing gym in Charlottesville, and it is a great place for beginners to learn how to climb. No experience is necessary. If you do not know how to belay, tie in to a harness, etc…. here is your chance to learn. You’ll be put on the waitlist …

Let’s go climb at Rocky Top this Wednesday. Rocky Top is the local climbing gym in Charlottesville, and it is a great place for beginners to learn how to climb. No experience is necessary. If you do not know how to belay, tie in to a harness, etc…. here is your chance to learn. Club Provides: Climbing gear you don’t …

Come climb Rocky Top, the local Charlottesville climbing gym. It’s a small place, but is a great place to learn and has some tough routes. This trip is mainly for people who haven’t yet been to Rocky Top. Experienced and beginners welcome. Trip limit is 4 (size of my car, even # of people). I will be getting gear beforehand, …

Just a run in the woods. Nothing too strenuous. This is especially an opportunity for trail runners new to UVA / the club – who aren’t familiar with the trails back on the O-Hill hill – to find out a bit about them. They’re pretty good. I’m not sure how long we’ll go. Doesn’t matter too much. Maybe we’ll go …

Let’s go climbing at Peak (the indoor climbing gym near Richmond) before it gets too crowded with Richmond college students. Thursdays are 1/2 price for students. This trip is for people who have some climbing experience – there will be future trips for beginners. Get in some climbing training for future outdoor trips this fall! I’m going to set the …

This will be an extremely relaxed trip. If you have never been back packing before this will be a great introduction for you. Experienced backpackers are also invited because it is going to be a lot of fun!!!! We will leave Friday afternoon for House Mountain. We will hike about 2 or 3 miles and set up camp for the …

Walnut Creek is an awesome place to go mountain biking for your first time, or your 100th time. There are a great deal of beginner-intermediate trails to ride. No experience is necessary to sign up for this trip. If we have enough people, we can split up into groups depending on when people want to leave and how fast they …

Saturday morning we’ll head out for the Cedar Run/Whiteoak Canyon trail. It’s a loop of about 9 miles, and along the way we’ll pass by several waterfalls. There is one place with a natural waterslide, so definitely bring your bathing suit! This is an awesome hike. Bring: lunch, LOTS of water (it’s gonna be a hot one), bathing suit, maybe …

Come to the Outer Banks and do some scuba, paddling, hiking, hanggliding, kiteboarding, or just enjoy the beach… and meet some new friends while you’re at it. Then eat dinner with us and sleep under the stars! There’s something for everyone! ——-Enjoy the beach!———- We will be staying on the beach! ——–Scuba——— If you have your open water certification, then …

If you have ever climbed multi pitch-trad, or you feel it’s time for you to challenge routes higher than usual half a pitch top ropes, I invite you to join this day-trip to the Seneca Rocks. We will leave Charlottesville early Sat morning,climb all day and be back at midnight or later.make sure to have breakfast before you come. bring …

I have been deprived of a good climbing work out for the past 3 or 4 weeks. But, this week I finally have a Thursday off. This trip is primarily for intermediate climbers who know how to belay. To be fair to the other climbers, I will allow only one or two non-belayers. Hence, the waitlist will be set to …

Surprise, surprise…. Let’s go climbing at Peak this Thursday. No experience is necessary, but I am going to limit the number of people who do not know how to belay to less than a third. I do not imagine this will be a problem, so sign up regardless. Hope to see you there. Club Provides: All gear you don’t have, …

Mt. Rogers, located in SW Virginia, offers lots of trails near the highest peak in Virginia (~5700ft). There should be some really nice views, and, if we’re lucky, we’ll see some of the ‘wild’ ponies roaming around. We will leave on Saturday morning at 9:00AM (please be on time!), drive a little over 4 hours to the state park located …

Ever wish that the trail was all downhill? Well, the Virginia Creeper Trail can make that wish come true! We will cover the 34 mile converted rail trail over two days. Saturday’s ride will be a gently graded downhill lasting about 15 miles. Saturday night we’ll find a nice spot to camp in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. We …

Let’s go climb at Rocky Top this Wednesday. Rocky Top is the local climbing gym in Charlottesville, and it is a great place for beginners to learn how to climb. If you do not know how to belay, tie in to a harness, etc…. here is your chance to learn. If the trip is full, sign up for the waitlist …

Rick can’t lead his usual Thursday Peak Experiences Climbing Gym trip, so he asked me to take it for him this week. Apparently, he got a job and has to go to work. Amazing. I’m going to set the trip attendee limit to 5 and then let people off the waitlist based on drivers and the number of people who …

If you don’t already know, Peak is a very large gym with a huge variety of routes- from easy to extremely difficult; tall and short. There is also a decent bouldering area and pro shop. Thursdays are buy-one-get-one-free nights for students. If you sign up, please try and show up on time!!!

If you don’t already know, Peak is a very large gym with a huge variety of routes- from easy to extremely difficult; tall and short. There is also a decent bouldering area and pro shop.

With over 40,000 square feet of climbs and boulder problems, Peak is one of the best climbing gyms in Virginia. Thursday are buy one get one free, so the price only 5.50$. You must know how to belay in order to sign up for this trip (due to the fact that Peak requires a belay test for new climbers, but …

If you don’t already know, Peak is a very large gym with a huge variety of routes- from easy to extremely difficult; tall and short. I will set the limit for this trip at only one person. If you want to go, please join the waitlist and I will pick names from the list before Thursday morning. People who know …

Radford University holds its 6th annual climbing competition called “Crux the Competition”. they have a cool indoor wall. http://www.radford.edu/~stuact/rec/wall.htm We have done college climbing competition in past and we won prizes. So I recommened this. It is like a climbing party and fun after all. Belaying style is top rope, also bouldering. There will be Men’s and Women’s brackets in …

It is that time of the week again… Peak is big, fun, and a little sexy too. Club will provide all gear- please indicate your shoe size, and your harness size- if you will be checking out gear. Peak requires a belay test- so if you don’t know how to belay and you want to go, then please sing up …

Let’s go climbing at Rocky Top Gym. Beginners are welcome and you will learn to belay, tie in, etc. The club can provide all the gear: harness, shoes, chalkbag. $7 for a day pass and $25 for a month pass.

This trip is open to anyone who either wants to learn how to start climbing or just work on their technique. If you have never climbed or belayed before we’ll spend the first half hour getting acquainted with safety and climbing basics. what to bring: a day pass is $7, month pass $25; bring water, climbing gear if you have …