Slurpees and Slots

the range


the other range


waz up


peter is happy


ok, back to the mountains


and the goats


and our roadside distraction


and the creek, why is there always a creek?


and some more goodness for the post hole'n professionals


and more


and more


and finally the top


and the style'eee descent..


...well maybe.


and back to the creek


and getting rid of the creek


and some chill'axn


and some more turns on pequop summit on the drive back


and nevada, gotta love those nevada gas stations

NST - year dos

No Star Tuesdays has entered its second year. And what a great first gathering for the new year. 30+ climbers descended on the Cresent Crack area to give a little loving to the less traveled and forgotten climbs...


little cottonwood park & ride and the new trail courtesy of the utah climbers coalition


bring on the rack of hex's - ah yaaaah - 'kutcorner 5.5'


in classic NST style, two of the founding members implement a unnecessary shoulder stand for the start of 'paraplegic ward 5.9A0'


portrait of the third founding member


rob earning his second year shirt on 'journey to the moon 5.10'


tyler looking for his bottle of ancient age on 'body english 5.9'


peace brotha - 'interplanetary voyage 5.11'


the new generation and


the old -- one big happy family - the way it should be...

Bringing Down the Face

A journey to Hogum Forks' Thunder Ridge, Little Cottonwood Canyon.
Good, bad. Amazing, crappy. The amount of snow in the Wasatch is incredible (upwards of 15' in the last few weeks), but the heat wave is down right miserable. I guess it is spring...


the wasatchs' coolest peak - the pfeifferhorn








let the journey begin


shredding frozen chunder


skinning up soupy chunder


the objective - the dresden face (right side of photo)


ummm, the aftermath and the 2000' feet of korn we were going to ski...


minutes pryer, looking down at 2000' of creamy korn


dropping the knee beneath the hanging doom of thunder ridge


our korn turned into bowling balls and small microwaves


inspecting the 15' high pile of madness


some lads shredding the NE couloir of lone peak




hogum's heros


cooling off the feet in little cottonwood creek


the campbell's and their pearly whites


maybe the gate buttress would have been a better option (everybody else seem to have known)...

BD slideshow 4/22

in support of kyle, i will be showing 15-20minutes of wasatch slides. psyched. should be fun. i usually start things off with a quiz - maybe for PBRs this time...

48 hours on the San Juan

this is what this silly little blog is all about - all the stupid, idiotic, hair brain, insane adventures that i dream up. manifested below is last weekends' sufferfest - a rock climbing adventure with possibly the longest approach in the desert - 44 miles by boat...


mexican hat boat launch - 4:30am


breakfast & coffee on the river


desert big horn


time to fly home canadian goose


still have a long ways to go...


midway through a 40 mile day with little sleep


rafting with beverages = the only way to go


camp near slickhorn


our toaster oven


easter on the river


grand gulch spire


pitch 0


pitch 2 showing the awesome rock quality


pitch 2 higher up


pitch 4's cat walk traverse


the summit just before sunset


remnants of the banditos


13 more miles in the dark


good food at Valle's in mexican hat