The River Gorge Guild
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Travel is always expensive, especially if you’re going a long way. What if I told you, though, that you can make it from the Mountain West to the East Coast while pretty much only spending money on gas? What if you don’t even have to sacrifice that much to do so? We’re going to tell…
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You’ve known it since the beginning: the River Gorge Guild is a family of sport climbers. Our roots are in the Red River Gorge, and we’ve built our lives around spending seasons all the best sport crags in the U.S. Not to mention, trad climbing is scary, dangerous, expensive, and demands a wise mentor to…
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So you’ve decided to set out on The Big Adventure. You have your rig, you have a travel circuit in mind, and you’re dreaming of the mountains. If you’re anything like me, though, one step still remains at this point: finding a job. Lots of nomads have remote jobs. You see them all over social…
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At the first high elevations, gold is painting the whispering tips of the aspens. Evening is falling faster, the stars are brighter, the moon is new. Even as the air turns brisk, the lake is the warmest it’s been all year. Late August is all about laughing in the final rays of sunlight as they…
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Summer is drawing to a close, the quiet nights lengthening and the evenings cooling. However, the season still far from over in my opinion–and there’s plenty of time left to drop by Lander, Wyoming for some of the most iconic summer climbing in the country. During one of the warmest seasons on record, though, how…
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(pssst…if you’re just here for the packing list, click here to bypass the yap sesh) The town I grew up in has an official altitude of 13 feet. The university I attended rests at a whopping 148 feet, on average. I hardly knew what the mountains were for the first many years of my life–I…
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My partner and I are far from the first to make this journey from the Gorge to the Rockies, and I’m certain we won’t be the last, either. That’s why we’ve compiled this guide for you: so you can hop on this classic nomad circuit with confidence. We’ll tell you what we did to get…
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We’ve gotten behind on our jams, which just means that we have so many great songs backlogged to pack into jars for you. Enjoy this collection of beautiful, exciting, and deeply emotional tracks. With true summer warming the horizon, I hope you get out into the world and feel big things. * = kinda new…
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So many climbers are coming to the Red River Gorge in pursuit of a beautiful day of 5.10 climbing. If you are one of these people, you’ll probably be funneled to climbs like Brief History, EGBG, and Breakfast Burrito, along with other such big-star names. The River Gorge Guild is here to ignite some debates…
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More often than not, adventurers transition from home life to van or trailer life because they love the outdoors. How then can we be better stewards of our beloved environment, especially while living in a vehicle? That’s a big question, and there are countless ways to approach it. When it comes to making sustainability upgrades…