DC Sux

[snugtop]

The East Coast is UGLY!

 

:tdown:

[G-spotter]

That's what happens when you send Vader to serve the Emperor.

[DirtyHarry]

Ha. I had to live in DC for a few months too. It does suck. At least you can go bouldering at Carder Rock and take weekend trips to Seneca.

[ivan]

seneca fucking rocks, as do the (free) musuems available at every turn

[Skeezix]

Seneca does indeed rock. Cue obligatory Seneca pron.

 

[Choada_Boy]

Front C

[snugtop]

Y'all are making me feel a teensy bit better. But after 9 years in Washington and a year in Boulder I'm not feeling the love...Went to Shenandoah last weekend and it was a sorry trip

[Hugh Conway]

There's this amazing thing called "culture" there. You know, art, museums, interesting people. The shit Seattle pretends it has and the trustafarians in Boulder are fleeing.

[snugtop]

There's this amazing thing called "culture" there. You know, art, museums, interesting people.

 

So...kinda like Index?

[Hugh Conway]

There's this amazing thing called "culture" there. You know, art, museums, interesting people.

 

So...kinda like Index?

 

Is there Chihully at Index?

[olyclimber]

yeah i tossed a few (along with a few beer bottles and a couch of course) off the UTW.

[ivan]

Y'all are making me feel a teensy bit better. But after 9 years in Washington and a year in Boulder I'm not feeling the love...Went to Shenandoah last weekend and it was a sorry trip

check out old rag mtn, just east of shenandoah - a very cool hike up a very rare thing in virginia (a giant chunk of granite) and if you bring your shoes and some sense, you can find a # of very cool things to clamber around on)

 

go to seneca. seriously. and do it soon before it's too hot!

 

for adventure, you can console yourself w/ scuba-diving, snorkeling, fishing, drinking and river-wallowing!

[Bug]

Visit Barry.

Tell him Bug says "hi".

[Hugh Conway]

check out old rag mtn, just east of shenandoah - a very cool hike up a very rare thing in virginia (a giant chunk of granite) and if you bring your shoes and some sense, you can find a # of very cool things to clamber around on)

 

Be prepared for some nasty poison ivy as well

[ivan]

check out old rag mtn, just east of shenandoah - a very cool hike up a very rare thing in virginia (a giant chunk of granite) and if you bring your shoes and some sense, you can find a # of very cool things to clamber around on)

 

Be prepared for some nasty poison ivy as well

hmm...i can't recall getting into any there or anywhere else in the actual blue ridge - back in richmond (or round here in the gorge) for that matter...

[Jim]

Commuted to D.C. via train from near Harper's Ferry for two years, then lived in the District for a year. While that was enough - there a lot you should take advantage of while there:

 

Great free museums, music, lectures, films.

 

The Florida Grill -if it is still there

 

Ethopian food in my old neighborhood - Adams Morgan.

 

Good bouldering on rock wall along C&O canal in Georgetown

 

Great paddling and smallmouth bass fishing in upper Potomic.

 

Seneca, Seneca, Seneca! 'cept the Gendarme is long gone.

 

Take the drive to the Gunks - about 7 hrs.

 

W.VA has great hiking - Dolly Sods, Cannan Valley.

 

Closer to home - climbing at Great Falls then go for a swim while avoiding the helicopter patrols of the NPS - makes you feel like a Navy Seal.

 

While you will have to drive a bit more there are some cool places. And D.C. is a very interesting cultural experience.

[tvashtarkatena]

Embrace the East Coast thing and

 

Hook up with some sailors and sail the DelMarVa peninsula/Chesapeake Bay. Annapolis is a good base of operations for that.

 

Take up squash.