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In no particular order here are some of my photos to browse.

Pre-dawn glow lights the slopes of Mt. Madison.

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Steep and sunny.

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Mom\'s apple pie.

After some delay with baggage I headed up to Mt. Washington to climb some big fat New Hampshire ice. Little did I know at the time that it would be the last ice I touch for the season.

Wednesday up at Harvard cabin we got a great storm, of 10\" of 5% density snow with little wind. Unfortunately I only had time to ski the Sherburn.

Skiing at Park City Mountain Resort. Its good to know a patroller who shows you the secret stashes on a warm sunny day.

Carly carving up some turns on P-Zone.

Full coverage of this hottie. You\'d think she was a Lindsey Vaughn.

Here\'s the real pro of the bunch.

Getting some air.

Carly enjoying some late spring dumping at Snowbird.

Sunday we attempted the East Ridge of Teewinot but started far too late and only got to the Worshipper and the Idol, the two prominent gendarmes above center.

Fun climbing if only a little run out on the last pitch.

Shooting from down low.

Long may the wolf spirit roam free!

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Awesome views from this area.

Not a whole lot of ice, especially for a two hour hike, but it was worth it for the first ice of the season.

Doug following up the easy approach pitch to Deep Freeze (WI5+).

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Sunset on the walk out from Black Velvet Canyon.

Another sunset on the walk out.

Carly making some fresh turns in some great powder.

Enjoying the view on a bluebird but crisp New Year's Day ski tour.

View back up our playground. Carly and I made the two rightmost tracks. Adam and Stephie the matching turns in the center.

The survival ski of Pole Canyon on the way out. This was near the end of our hour long slog through brush, trees, and gully.

Matt looking baller.

Della dropping in for another lap.

Party after us on the Ribbon (WI4).

Snow levels in Eureka/Silverton were amazingly low compared to the last time I was here.

Gravity\'s Rainbow in thin conditions.

Carly rapping down after we got stormed off a variation of Over the Rainbow.

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Enjoying the \"Little Grand Canyon\" view.

Weather starting to turn on us. Luckily it never did more than a few drops here and there.

Stormy skies for the first part of our day.

It isn't hard to see how native people thought these rock formations were ancestors.

Sunday I wasn\'t feeling well and we decided to drive to the southern tip of the park. It was cold and windy.

Tourist shot.

An attempt to bushwhack up a faint trail to get up close to a waterfall.

Late spring flowers on the catus.

Mountain goats lounging on steep terrain.

Just about finished on the lower section of the North Ridge.

Enjoying the sunrise in Maybird Gulch.

Leaf detail of a very lush plant.

Our sweet, though highly visible spot on the apprach trail to the Lower Saddle.

Sheltered spot under a boulder in the Moraine Camping area.

Matt cleaning up the anchor.

This is a Monday in SoCal.

Carly leading me up the classic Theater of Shadows (5.7).

On the ride home from a great weekend in the City of Rocks we had one of the best sunsets I\'ve seen in a long time.

We were headed east out of Malta with Carly driving. I happened to look in the side view mirror and noticed the sky was on fire. We pulled over immediately and took some shots. One of the most enjoyable sunsets in a long time.

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Enjoying the view from the Dylan Wall Anex, dubbed the Jacob Dylan Wall by Matt.

A really tight and interesting tunnel behind a massive pillar at Donnelly Canyon.

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Ixta wondering when the sun is going to go behind a cloud and make the temps more forgiving for her.

The Matts climbing and belaying on the Elevator Shaft (WI4).

Suiting up for the Elevator Shaft (WI4).

Berry working through the tough section.

Fancy footwork in the corner.

Leading up a fat Champagne Slot (WI3+).

We conicidentally got to the base of the climb a few minutes before the sun poked around the ridge and we were basked in warmth for about an hour or two.

WI7+ belayer right there.

Headed into Canmore from Calgary. Mt. Yamnuska is the obvious cliff.

Dinner in the only restaurant in Golden, BC that had more than 4 people in it. It was awesome.

Even right under the lift was sweet.

Glades for days at Revy.

While there was high overcast clouds, we did get some shots of amazing light for the distant mountains.

Our accomidations for the evening in Revelstoke.

On the \"brutal\" (casual) 30 minute skin on an abandoned railroad bed to the Wheeler Cabin.

Doing more with less. Notice the tracks, they are from Perlys Rock. We weren\'t able to make it all the way due to a time crunch. A major shame as the run looks epic.

Looking up towards the Glacier Crest.

On the shore waiting for our ferry. Nelson was our destination after Rogers Pass.

The Gehringer Brothers Winery in Oliver. The woman who gave us our tasting (at 10am on a Wednesday) was really nice and gave us all lot of info (and wine) about the area.

Typical Vancouver weather.

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View out towards the valley. I bet it was in the mid-60\'s down in the valley, but we had much colder conditions.

Rappelling down P2.

The hulking mass of Mt. Bradley.

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The complexity of the south east face of Denali.

Low and slow flight over the glacier. We are approximately 2,000 feet above them at this point.

Broken glacier in 747 Pass.

Ski back to camp after some corn skiing in 747 Pass.

Gormet kitchen.

Big Sandy River looks like it would be great trout stream.

Carly, bug net donned, enjoying the evening.

Awesome egg and bacon breakfast that we had pre-cooked and packed in.

Part way up the consilation prize. Our intendend route wasn\'t obvious and it was cold and windy so we went with a easy way to the summit.

Another afternoon thunderstorm rolling though the Range.

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View of the time lapse going on the iPhone 7.

Not as spectacular as the previous night but a good view nonetheless.

The South Sixshooter has one of the easier routes to the top of a desert tower.

Sorting gear the night before made for a short night before we had to roll to the office in the morning to secure our spot to bivy on route.

There she is, Desert Shield (5.11a C3). The line goes up from off frame to the left, to the top of the pillar, where the bivy ledge is, to the left edge of the overhanging headwall. Once gaining the headwall from the left side it wraps around to the overhanging face in the center.

The money second pitch starts as unprotected 5.7 slab and moves to a technical face with spaced bolts. A finger crack begins after the face and turns quickly into a hand and fist crack. It is 170 ft of great climbing that I need to go back to do.

The train of people on Moonlight Buttress across the gorge.

View over to Space Shot. That route goes up to the left of the massive opening and then steps out onto the pinnacle of the opening for the \"space shot\".

The beginning of the small offset nut section. Some of the nuts are about 1.5 quarters thick.

View across the valley. Moonlight Buttress is the prominent buttress right of center.

Allen figuring out the gear placements in the thin crack.

Laying down some new tracks next to some old ones covered by the recent snow.

Skiers approaching the top of Beartrap Galdes.

The always consistently classy, Bill Belcourt.

Twin Lakes pass.

Della getting some fresh turning in Wolverine Bowl.

Deep snow in the trees.

Knee deep in spots!

A pretty easy skin in with views of the undercast down in the low country.

Sweet high alpine terrain in the La Sals. Hard to believe this is less than an hour from Moab.

Weird snow mushrooms we saw in a few places.

Interior of Blue Ice HQ.

Aude belaying at another cragging day.

Working down the inital ridge from the station.

From the glacier we used the ladders for about 500 feet to get to the Montenvers train.

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Summit wine. Its France, they don't do PBRs. Mont Blanc in the background.

That's right Bill, you're doing great. I've got you tight.

Clem keeping her boss on an attentive belay.

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Many if not most of the hikers who were walking by us were underdressed but didn't think to take cover under the boulder we found.

Pouring.

Waiting out the afternoon t-storm after we bailed on Guide's Wall.

From the window of our 5th story flat we saw some great sunsets. The sun was well out of sight to the right, but it cast light against the valley walls and combined with the ever changing clouds was captivating.

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One of the uber classics. View of P1-2. Since we didn\'t bring a couple #5 and #6 cams we didn\'t get on it.

Manky anchor style that passes for the norm at this crag.

Beautiful house along the road. Many of the houses in the area had this style of stone roof. I bet that waterfall ices up nicely in the winter.

Awesome alpine terrain. I would imagine there is some good skiing up here if you can get up this far.

Close up of some of the sharp limestone.

Maple Canyon in the fall.

Hills are on fire.

E-mann working on his crack game.

Oakley putting up another FA.

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Manu getting wet on the Thrill is Gone (WI4 M4).

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All of the days were a little on the cloudy and stormy side.

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Every day was descending in the dark.

Awesome rest on the route. It was a blob of ice with the shape that you could stradle it.

Landscapy shot of Chris 2/3 up.

Yup, getting dark and still a lot of walking to do.

It snowed on average about 6" per day, everyday. This limited visibility and the lines were were able to ski. But it made for fresh tracks everyday.

The pine martens used our skin tracks as highways overnight.

The last time I was in BC there was similar light as this. It is very cool to see in person.

Skinning up the easy, but icy slopes down low.

Nearing the top of the nice crack.

Lookin towards the High Sierra at sunset.

The desolate canyon east of East Carbon, the dead mining town.

Up on the high plateau. It was a welcome change to the heat of the lower desert.

Short photo stop on the increadibly windy road up from the dam to a high alpine pass. The road is under this cliff band for most of the way.

The beautiful high alpine pass and meadow.

Breakfast before our Wolf\'s Head climb.

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Footy leading up the left K-Crack.

It was cool to see very different flowers of different colors, all within the same small areas.

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After we finally go around a party of 5. Matt linked two harder pitches bringing us to an easy pitch which we were able to simul-climb.

Roughing it in the hut for dinner. While the food was good the wine was crap.

On the summit of the Aiguille de Marbrees. Mont Blanc in the background.

Another angle of the Dent du Geant.

The one day it rained we were still able to get a climb in, a classic at that too. Frison-Roche.

View of the cable car just at the rain started to come in.

Jeremy pulling through the roof on Side Effects (5.10d).

Heel hooks were the key on the first few moves of this one.

View of Ouray from above the town.

Young mountain goat on the cliff above the road.

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Nearing the 5 mile mark the forest opened up a bit and we walked through these high meadows, just starting to glimpse the peaks in the distance.

Enjoyig the last sunny parts of the day. After this it clouded over and we got some rain. Freemont Peak is the most prominent peak.

At least we got to use the crampons we packed.

View of our camp. We tucked in behind these pines to shelter from the oncoming rain when we arrived.

Rolf and Carly walking out to the game camera Rolf's got in the woods. He had some good footage including a bear looking and sniffing directly into the camera.

Micah leading P1 of Ames Ice Hose (WI5).

Not tons of snow from the storm, only 5-6", but it skied well in the trees.

Carly leading the right side of Senator's Gulch (WI3) via this line.

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Nice view out towards the valley in the afternoon.

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More slogging below the Thin Air face. The last 50 vertical feet were deep.

Looking towards Twenty Below Zero Gully (WI4).

Fording the Strawberry river at a shallow spot.

From the back it can be seen that there are spots of the pillar that aren't super thick.

Awesome sunset on the drive back near Heber.

Gracie had a new friend for a week. Our neighbor's needed us to look after their beta fish.

I'm not a fan of accumulating kitchen stuff, unless it is something I use frequently. I use scotch glasses way more than cookie cutters, hence this.

Tasty mushroom sobu noodle dish Carly made.

Another loaf of the no knead. I'm hoping we can get a sourdough starter going and bump up the hipster factor.

Night-time in the neighborhood.

Another loaf of sourdough.

North face of Notch Peak at sunrise.

Saturday was a little moody up at the peak. This wash is the approach.

Massive pine, perhaps a bristlecone pine?, on the trail.

The other camp spot in Ten Sleep. The camping is dispursed along this forest road. While it was fairly busy we were able to find a spot.

The trail after the waterfall died out and we were forced cross-country for a couple miles. Unfortunately through deadfall and sometimes swampy terrain.

Our eventual stopping point. While our plan was to travel about 8 miles into a spot called Bomber Lake the off-trail travel was very tiring and slow. We stopped at the last spot we saw that was suitable for camping just before this old moraine.

Lots of climbable rock in this canyon.

I brought my fishing rod that my Dad had given me. Perfect rod for this type of trip, a 5 piece.

View of Irene's Arete from the Garnet Canyon trail.

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Campsite for the night.

Summit register. Last recorded ascent on this route was September 2020.

Flaming Gorge dam. It is 455' from the bottom to top.

A random road heading into Colorado somewhere near Vernal, UT.

Our nice campsite for the previous night. The cottonwood tree was enourmous and ancient.

Steamboat Rock where the Yampa and Green Rivers converge.

From the outside there's no indication of the flake weaknesses.

Tackling many more of the dirt roads in Dinosaur NM.

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We end up getting out of the national monument a little early since the return road was all gravel and that is hair-rasing on a motorcycle. All was good though because we ended up here.

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Camp spot for the night at Whitney Reservoir.

Morning sunrise with clouds out at the mouth of the canyon.

View from inside the subway sized Indian Tunnel Cave. This cave goes along for a tenth of a mile or so with large sections of skylights.

Getting close to the end of the Indian Tunnel.

All of the caves were accessed from this sort of paved trail. While it was asphalt it was kind of difficult to walk on since it was so uneven.

Terrain belays.

The Whitney group is absolutely staggering in its verticality and amount of rock. The faces here are approximately 1000' toall. Whitney on the right.

Ben on the crux pitch of the route. While it is all there and only 5.7 there's not a lot of protection to be had.

Ben heading up on one of the upper pitches. The rock to his left is quite interesting. The face towards me is all quartz.

Summit bird scrounging for food.

Just in case you're wondering what .811 feet is, it is a little more than 1/8th of an inch. Wikipedia is saying the elevation is 14,505', I guess they were both over confident in their precision and accuracy back at the time of this signs creation.

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This tree is over 4,000 years old or approximately the same age as the oldest pyramids in Egypt.

Making dinner by the side of the road before starting the drive home.

Waking up on the old highway where we spent the night.

Summit selfie. The smoke levels were minimal on summit day.

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Heading down the Cruise Gully in the morning as the sun peaks into the canyon.

Stopped at Hell's Backbone Restaurant on a gorgeous evening. We only did take out, but it was great.

Sunrise in the desert.

Eric on one of the easier squeezes.

The water cut deep and narrow in this spot requiring a foot shuffle or standing on top of it.

View looking at the top of Peek-a-boo Slot. The canyon winds in from the right and then zags away into the background.

The really cool textures and shapes in Spooky Slot Canyon.

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A better view of Steven's Arch's 220 ft span.

The water was no more than mid-shin deep or if it was deeper it was easy to bypass.

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This area, called Swiss Cheese Falls, had some really cool water sculpted stone.

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View from the rim looking down about 250' to the top of Jacob Hamblin's Arch. The other amphitheater is on the left.

I've been going to Red Rocks for over a decade and always see the road signs on Rt. 159 for the wild burros, but never saw them. But this trip we did!

On the descent you head down a number of smooth sandstone slabs. In this spot in the shade we found some ice!

Hidden Haven (WI4) is a 4 pitch climb with the first three pitches being moderate. There is some walking in between pitches. With the lack of snow in UT these walking sections were a frozen stream.

After getting into the narrow section of the canyon it was very interesting scenery.

P1 ice features with water everywhere.

The squalor of the TAT Bunkhouse remains constant.

Flying into the East Fork of the Tokositna.

Basecamp.

Bringing Micah up to the top of the Upper Park, where we bivied for the night. It was about 11 hours to this point.

Clearing out the snow from the chimney.

Second bivy views from the Nose.

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Rappel down the Alley pitch that I lead.

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Happy little basecamp and partial runway. Cook tent fell over though.

Our ride home. We were eating a leisurely breakfast thinking TAT wouldn't arrive until the sun hit the runway. Buy at 9:40 we got a text saying they were on their way. We blitzed a camp breakdown and were ready in just over 20 minutes when they arrived.

Beaver rocking his summer haircut.

Off the dirt for the most part for the day. Stopped at the Bear Lake Summit Overlook Rest Area.

I had a fair amount of daylight left after I got to Garden City so. decided in doing a circumnavigation of the Lake. This is about 50 miles and quite nice. I liked the East Shore the best as it is less developed. This is on the Idaho side.

Looking into Middle Sink late in the day. I tried to get out to Peter Sink but a mud bog section turned me around.

Part way up the easy section of the trail. It was kind of hot in the sun when there wasn't a breeze.

Wildflowers were bloom.

Along the trail there were salmon berries. Most were not ripe yet.

The forest was fantastic, at least on the way in. On the way out it was a hot, breezeless, fly infested march back to the van.

Once out of the forest there are big views of Forbidden Peak and Eldorado Peak. Like many alpine zones in August it was lush and filled with wildflowers.

Looking down on Carly doing the fun arete pitch.

The other party below was doing the same route as us.

Nearing the summit of Sharkfin Tower.

Back at camp on the first evening.

The second day we got up at 5am to climb the East Ridge (5.8). The alpen glow was great.

The sun just kissing the tops of the surrounding peaks.

Dessert chocolate! Thanks Micah!

We didn't take a tent since the weather would be nice. The temps were pretty warm as well so we were comfortable.

View of the moon rising as well as the stars and satellites.

With the moon just coming up I got some interesting light on Mt. Torment.

We bivied along the road after hiking out of the mountains. Aside from the car noise it was a great spot.

The first major milestone along the hike is Colcuck Lake. Dragontail Peak on the right of the pass has some really good climbing.

On the slog up Aasgard Pass we saw a mother and baby mountain goat.

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We tried to keep up a good pace when we could.

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End of the Core Enchantments zone and looking down to Upper Snow Lake.

Some interesting berries along the trail. We didn't partake.

A fuzzy pika much lower down than I would have expected. He was fairly calm with us being so close.

Nice late afternoon light in Tensleep Canyon

Trail running up at West Tensleep Lake.

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Well it felt like I could see the curvature of the earh but it was just the camera lens.

Granite in the Deep Creek Mountains. I'll have to come back to explore.

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View from Spotted Wolf Overlook, which views the breach in the San Rafael Reef made in the late 1960's for Interstate 70.

At the mouth of Three Finger Canyon.

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Start to the run through the Red Cliffs Canyon.

A short side excursion to some dinosaur tracks.

The canyon had some water in it which was mostly avoidable. One zone required a convoluted climb up out of the canyon to avoid it.

Carly coming up P1.

Looking up at the climb from the walk-off descent with a party getting to the top of P1.

Cloudy driving for the ride home to Salt Lake City.

Working up the skinner.

Yup it was good.

Andreas was so quick on this steeper pitch I barely got a shot off with him in it.

More right-side-up shredding.

The party behind us had a couple of dogs. On this lower angle terrain they were working hard to keep up on the down.

Many, many, many switchbacks and kick turns on this day out.

Rounding the bend we saw the saddle at the terminus of Primrose Cirque. We opted out of going up there despite the great view there surely would be--too much wind and possible slab.

Pro climber Nate Sackett getting up to the belay.

Snow always punctuates any landscape with its contrast. These contrats are that much more distinct in the desert.

The powder sleds we used were a bit annoying because the snow was relatively firm. This type of sled needs fresh snow to keep cool. We had to stop every 10 min or so to pack snow into the cooling areas on the sleds.

The second day only had three of us climbing. Nate heading up the spicier than it looks Last Man Standing (WI5).

Andy taking the belay duties.

This section was interesting. The ice behind the left ramp was chandeliered and crap for putting screws into.

The dark line we took is a clear section of ice.

This spot was the thickest clear ice I've ever seen on a climb.

Afternoon shot of the Talsiman. Our line goes up the ice then trends left to the snowy ledge. After bumping the belay to the right on the ledge the mixed pitch trends left under the overhanging corner then up a groove. Then we trend right on rock again to the ice blob left of the dagger. We gain the dagger at the point of attachment, then straight up the ice.

Approach to the Talsiman (WI5, M6). We had a slog even with the snowshoes.

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Starting at zero dark thirty at a trailhead I've been at many times.

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The first run of the weekend had a longer but mellower track. Nearly all of it was on a forest road.

More wonderful meadow running.

Second day of running, but the road we ran the day before can be seen in the distance on the grassy hillside.

Sunriseing on our way up Madison.

Coming down off of Mt. Washington. Not much running on this trail run for us.

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Lindsay working on Ultramarine.

John holding onto nothing.