I have now been consistently climbing both in indoor climbing gyms and outdoor climbing areas for about eight or nine years. I started climbing during my last year at Clemson University because I had friends who were starting to get into the sport, and we also had access to a free climbing facility through the university's gym. Since then, climbing has only become an even bigger part of my life. I have spent many weekends and vacations traveling with my wife, friends, and now family to climbing areas all over the southeast like the New River Gorge in West Virginia, the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, and the Obed Wild and Scenic river in Tennessee.