It’s hump day, so it’s officially OK to begin planning that weekend trip. On that note, Gregory will be headed this weekend to the Nor’easter, the new (and apparently fairly big) EMS festival at Tenney Mountain near Plymouth, N.H. George left last night on the redeye …
Part party, part outdoor recreation, part music festival, and part volunteer work, it should be a pretty good time. Folks from Gregory will be on hand staffing two booths, one at the camping/music area, and another up where the climbing clinics are at Tenney Mountain, showing the latest goods, helping people with packs questions, and generally getting involved in the fun. 
Climbing competitions and clinics are one of the big recreational draws, and the names EMS has lined up are impressive: Dave Graham, Chris Sharma, Tommy Caldwell, Lisa Rands, Heidi Wirtz, and Gregory athlete Joe Kinder, among others. Those folks will all be giving clinics (now that’s an opportunity to learn from the best).
Joe’s clinic will be called Sending. Ha ha. Although Joe did just send (nailed the 5.14d route Kryptonite in Colorado right before getting on the plane to head to the weekend event), his clinic is really called “Gym to Crag.” No offense, I think Sending is better.
Sign up early, because although the clinics are included in the cost, they’re limited to 12 people each. Something tells me they’re gonna fill up quick.
Seven or eight bands will be playing through the weekend, and Sunday’s dedicated to volunteer conservation work on the nearby national forest.
That’s a lot of stuff for an event that costs $175 a car load (apparently a car load is five people, so that’s $35 each).
One thing to remember: BYOB.
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