Rock Climbing

Climbing appeals to me for lots of reasons. It's a fun way of getting exercise, it's surprisingly cerebral (like solving a crossword puzzle with your body), and it is a terrific excuse for going to scenic places.

The photo above is me toproping "Easy Day for A Lady" (uncropped full photo, 92497 bytes) which as far as this lady was concerned, wasn't! This lovely offwidth is in Fremont Canyon, Wyoming. We climbed several other routes there, including Peterson's Corner (86515 bytes). Fremont was just a minor stopover after the main event of our late-May 1997 Wyoming trip:

Can you guess where we are? (66433 bytes)
Obligatory summit shot (36408 bytes)
Dangling legs over the edge (80249 bytes)

(If you haven't figured it out yet, we climbed this thing.)

Some photos of me on Ruper, a classic 5.8 route in Eldorado Canyon near Boulder:

starting up the 5.8 second pitch, the infamous Ruper Crack (uncropped and 2x size version of photo to right, 53862 bytes)
just below the 5.8 crux of the sixth pitch (kind of dark, 48312 bytes)

Some of my trip reports on Eldorado Canyon climbs:

The Bulge and Over The Hill
The Yellow Spur
The West Buttress of the Bastille (written by Bill Wright)

Mark Kochte, otherwise known as "Indiana Mark", took these pictures of me during a trip to Vedauwoo (Wyoming):

His trip report, written in inimitable Indy style.

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