The Great White Icicle and the probable FFA

the First Formal Ascent that is...



the board members


the 10:30am tele-conference


aggressive business strategies guarantee success


looking sharp


pitch 3


running a few minutes late


mr. white, mr. brown, & mr. pink


or is it mr. brown, mr. orange, & mr. pink?


time for contemplation at the base of pitch 4


still looking sharp


pitch 4


climbing the corporate ladder


watch yourself!


stlye'ly


so in summery, the stocks look good...


...and continue to rise!


the 'aid climber'


hattori


the greek


the button pusher

Merry Christmas

Rediscovering Winter

the sluggish green river rolling through canyonlands national park


fort bottom


cottonwood + calamari


calamari + wingate


mineral bottom


big chris smith, rediscovering his winter with PBR via a red vine


the one, the only, b.ditto


c.thomas also sending baghdad, santaquin canyon


the south side, LCC


and the north side


beckey's wall, bottom's up


and from up


jules, what an angle


bizarre things happen in the west desert


skull valley's ark boulder


stansbury island


sun & shells, but we're not talking about the beach


for sure it's pretty, but that's about it....

What did your 4x4 do last weekend?

this is a quick visual story about the second ascent and FFA of an all clean tower (leave no trace style)... december 4th moab forcast - high of 21F, low of 13F (it was a double down coat kind of weekend)


wrangling the wood, SLut


big chris smith, trimming his wood


the anchor is ready


soda springs basin, canyonlands national park


the tower - yum kipper


the gear


the approach


remnants from past travelers


getting close


the climbing on some of these towers isn't always pretty


halfway


the summit at nightfall


warming with tea


more tea and contemplation of our sanity


ya, that's right, duct tape


ari, man'ing up, and rappelling into the blackness from the 4x4


yup, thats the anchor


on the ground. both us and the anchor. a successful ascent and descent leaving no fixed anything!


the anchor give'ath warmth