Best crag in the USA/world to telework?

"rado"= Coloradoan.

CO folks have more or less outstayed their welcome in UT, from what I hear people complaining about on MP.

Head up North! If the 'alpine' crags of the daks and white mountains are what you're looking for.

Enchanted Rock, 90 miles west of Austin, Texas.

I'd follow the good weather around the country in an RV myself.

Have you looked at Chattanooga, TN? You could stay at The Crash Pad hostel downtown (wifi, power, showers, breakfast, etc. $27/night) and have your pick of climbing areas within 10-40 minutes. LRC for bouldering, T-Wall and Sunset Park for trad, Foster Falls for sport.

Durango, Colorado.... If you don't know, there's nothing else to say...

Bishop
Bariloche
Yosemite (oh my god yes there are way to make it work for dirt cheap, you just have to be wiley, especially doable if you're only talking 3–4 weeks stints. Many do the temporal work/climb gig via wifi from the Valley. Much easier if you work with documents -- download->do your thing->upload -- rather than having to connect via VPN for continuous behind firewall stuff)

For me, the most important detail is this: What kind of job do you have, and how can I get it?

Tom Mulholland wrote:For me, the most important detail is this: What kind of job do you have, and how can I get it?

+1

truck
travel trailer
satellite internet dish
satellite meter/pointer (for re-aligning dish when you change locations)
generator
inverter
few deep cycle batts
storage room nearby in ghetto part of city
handguns?

weed

Norm3 wrote: +1

+2

Come check out Utah. Within 5-6 hours we have world class access to almost every type of climbing.
Dallen

Henry T. wrote:Have you looked at Chattanooga, TN? You could stay at The Crash Pad hostel downtown (wifi, power, showers, breakfast, etc. $27/night) and have your pick of climbing areas within 10-40 minutes. LRC for bouldering, T-Wall and Sunset Park for trad, Foster Falls for sport.

And generally good cell service at all of the above areas.

Though Spring/Summer isn't the best time to climb there. Summer climbing in Chatt is pretty much a total bummer, it's just so hot and humid that no amount of chalk in the world will let you climb anywhere near your limit without slipping and sliding off everything. Almost every single climber I know who lives in the SE takes a long trip out west in the summer months,

The Blueprint Part Dank wrote:Though Spring/Summer isn't the best time to climb there. Summer climbing in Chatt is pretty much a total bummer, it's just so hot and humid that no amount of chalk in the world will let you climb anywhere near your limit without slipping and sliding off everything. Almost every single climber I know who lives in the SE takes a long trip out west in the summer months,

Yes, it'll be sweltering.
Your face might melt.
And there will be no bikini clad women in the creeks and sunning on sand bars.
Tornado season is coming too.
It's really dangerous down here.
There are bears!
And chiggers.

I'm loving the positivity :) Will bring handguns! (Something to do on rest days).

Thanks all for the suggestions. There's a couple ideas here that I will absolutely pursue over the next couple months.

I would advise a slightly different strategy. I'm in a similar situation and just built an awesome truck + truck camper setup with WiFi that can exist off the grid for up to a week at a time no problem. It has a high-gain cellular antenna on the roof, so as long as there a hint of Verizon coverage (well past where a phone gives up and shows no signal), I have network connectivity. With that setup, I should be able to make most crags work.

It's really not that expensive either. Shoot me a message if you want more info.

At a bare minimum, don't let WiFi be a requirement, though. Portable hotspots are dirt cheap and well worth the freedom they provide. Most smartphones can be made to do the same thing if you'd rather go that way.

wfscot wrote:I would advise a slightly different strategy. I'm in a similar situation and just built an awesome truck + truck camper setup with WiFi that can exist off the grid for up to a week at a time no problem. It has a high-gain cellular antenna on the roof, so as long as there a hint of Verizon coverage (well past where a phone gives up and shows no signal), I have network connectivity. With that setup, I should be able to make most crags work. It's really not that expensive either. Shoot me a message if you want more info. At a bare minimum, don't let WiFi be a requirement, though. Portable hotspots are dirt cheap and well worth the freedom they provide. Most smartphones can be made to do the same thing if you'd rather go that way.

Pics?

wfscot wrote:I would advise a slightly different strategy. I'm in a similar situation and just built an awesome truck + truck camper setup with WiFi that can exist off the grid for up to a week at a time no problem. It has a high-gain cellular antenna on the roof, so as long as there a hint of Verizon coverage (well past where a phone gives up and shows no signal), I have network connectivity. With that setup, I should be able to make most crags work. It's really not that expensive either. Shoot me a message if you want more info. At a bare minimum, don't let WiFi be a requirement, though. Portable hotspots are dirt cheap and well worth the freedom they provide. Most smartphones can be made to do the same thing if you'd rather go that way.

Nice. PM'd for truck beta

Austin Baird wrote:Pics?

Here are a couple. Good times indeed. This thing can truly go anywhere. It's a popup, so the first pic is how it looks in travel mode, the second is once it's popped.

Silver Fox in the snow

Silver Fox popped at Utah rest stop

Kalymnos, Greece

You can live for 40$ a day withotu any issue by renting a studio and going everynight to the restaurant.
Internet pretty good and cliffs everytwhere 10-20 minutes away.

Honestly I would go out of the states and go to Kalymnos or any big Crag in Spain (Rodellar, Siurana, ...)