WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS with Kathy Karlo
Nov 06, 2020
5 minutes
Text: Niall Flynn
Photography:
Sarah Hoskins
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Recently, Kathy Karlo was trying to describe the Red River Gorge to a friend who’d never visited before. Despite her best intentions, the climber and podcast host could only offer one valid comparison when it came to painting an accurate picture of the famed Kentucky canyon system: Jurassic Park.
“It sounds kind of crazy,” she says, laughing. “But I’ve found leaves there that were as big as my torso – like, the size of dinosaur footprints. If you go there during the spring it’s so green, because the east coast – the south east especially – gets so much rain. But in the fall, you get these gorgeous oranges, reds, and everything looks like it’s on fire.”
The Gorge, known simply as ‘The Red’ by
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