Ridgerunner

A smiling bearded man in a tan cap and blue shirt, wearing a backpack, stands on a wooded trail.

Matt Allenbaugh has been on duty out on the Roanoke area’s most-used sections of the Appalachian Trail only since April. The 2005 thru-hiker has been out on trails far longer.

Wait, Problems?

A climber in a pink shirt and gray patterned shorts scales a large boulder in a wooded area.

For the unenlightened, “problems” are not that at all—they’re places where the likes of Aaron Parlier have mapped out how to climb a boulder.

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