Clarification: Travel-West Virginia-Seneca Rocks story

In this June 25, 2017 photo climber Phil Brown rappels down from Old Man's Route on the west face of Seneca Rocks in West Virginia. The crag has no hiking trail to the top so you have to either rappel or climb down. (AP Photo/Michael Virtanen)

Republished July 05, 2017 - 10:29 AM

Original Publication Date July 03, 2017 - 6:16 AM

SENECA ROCKS, W.Va. - In a story July 3, The Associated Press reported that Seneca Rocks can be climbed without technical climbing gear. The story should have made clear that the mountaintop is uninviting to hikers without technical climbing gear for protection.

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