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About Root and Rock

RAR was created as Mike’s personal response to cancer and to acknowledge the restorative power of the natural created world. RAR engages with fellow explorers through story, community, and gear. We believe life isn’t just an adventure…it’s the adventure. So we celebrate life through exploration of the beauty and the journey found on the trail. We’ve learned that navigating terrain connects us to ourselves and each other while building deeper relationships, perspective, and resiliency. Join us on the trail.

Trail Stories

Trails connect us to ourselves and each other. What’s your story?

What I Believe

I believe what I see in the visible and natural world was made by an amazing creative God who says it’s all mine and it’s good. I believe there is a greater unseen part of life that we sense is present but we cannot comprehend.
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Betrayed by Beauty (Part 1)

Betrayed by beauty…That’s how I feel at present as I see the devastation from the path of Helene in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. This beauty has been on display for many years.  As example, Chimney Rock State Park, the grounds of the...

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The Beginning My love of the outdoors started at an early age growing up in McLean, Virginia and on our family farm in Franklin County. In the early 1960’s and 70’s, McLean was a quiet community with lots of woods, trails, local farms and undeveloped tracts of land. ...

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Life is better with great gear? Join the adventure and pick up some RAR apparel and merchandise.

Stand at the crossroads and look, ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.

Jeremiah 6:16

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