That's how lots of people describe some of the easy routes on West Virginia's Seneca Rocks: the scariest easy climb in the world. The "scary" had given me pause; the "easy" had appealed. Also, my climbing friends Jay and Abby had done their first climbing ever at Seneca Rocks, when Abby was thirteen to boot, …
Month: June 2012
Wild Irises and Adventure Racing
During the very first leg -- the kayaking leg! -- of this year's Spring Fury adventure race, I noticed some awesome flowers as I was getting out of my kayak to go punch a checkpoint some yards inland. Amid the lake reeds, standard spring wetland fare such as skunk cabbage and May apples, there were …
Into the Not So Wild 