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Rocky hills, heart-stopping high-wire thrills on West Virginia’s Via Ferrata outdoor adventure
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This climber is all smiles on the Via Ferrata, part of NROCKS Outdoor Adventures in West Virginia.
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Whatever you do, don’t look down.
And so I methodically made my way across the 150-foot-high bridge, swaying between two giant rock formations in eastern West Virginia.
And I wondered to myself how exactly I had been talked into this.
Strictly translated,
via ferrata is Italian for “iron way.” Although similar climbing apparatus had been used before, the Italians formalized the concept during World War I, when soldiers needed a way to cross the rocky Dolomite mountains. They affixed a series of rungs, ladders and cables to the rock to assist in climbing.
JACOBSON
David Elliot Jacobson passed from this life on Dec. 25 at Monongahela General Hospital in Morgantown.
He was born Jan. 6, 1956, in Plainfield, New Jersey, to Virginia Bergen Jacobson and Denman F. Jacobson. Dave grew up in Troy, Michigan, attending Birmingham schools and later majoring in history at Central Michigan University.
He joined the U.S. Marine Corp Reserve and attended Officer Candidate School but was honorably discharged for medical reasons. His early career was in media sales, which was followed by work in logistics. He moved to West Virginia in 2009 and retired in August 2019 from Canaan Valley Resort State Park, where he had held several positions in operations and sales.