The New York Times said "[t]he importance of the work of Dr. Pogue...signals the increasing maturity and seriousness of the Washington wine industry.
He began climbing in 1975 in the Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky, an hour drive east of his home in Lexington.
He was a pioneer in the development of sport climbing at Frenchman Coulee where he eventually established 38 routes, mostly on the Sunshine Wall, that include Ride'em Cowboy, Vantage Point, and Hakuna Matata.
[22] During his travels, Pogue also managed to establish one, now popular route on the Magic Bus formation in Red Rocks called Neon Sunset.
[23] Pogue conducted National Science Foundation Research-funded geologic research in the Himalayan foothills of northern Pakistan from 1986 to 1998.
He primarily studied the structure and stratigraphy of the rocks that are transitional from the sedimentary foreland fold-and-thrust belt to the metamorphic hinterland.
His research established a stratigraphic and structural framework for this region[24][25] that allowed it be correlated with the tectonostratigraphic subdivisions of the eastern and central Himalaya of Nepal and India.
[26] Pogue's research also led to the discovery of the first Ordovician rocks in Pakistan[27] and a major episode of rifting during the Late Paleozoic.