I've always hated rappelling, but watching Katie spider rappelling down a chossy wall was ten times worse than doing it myself!

On P3 (or P2 if you string the first two together) of Green Slab. Get in a directional at this point or your stoppers will pop with very little effort.

Note the guy soloing halfway up the photo.

She is only 5 mths old and already playing around at the bottom of the Bastille, that's my little girl, imagine what she can do when she is 1 yr. Photoshop by Todd Pazol (dad)

me pulling around the roof on the 2nd pitch. Expect a bit of a run-out after the roof. Good huecos to the top!!

I think this is the beginning of the 3rd pitch of Rewritten in Eldo. Pic was taken by Rick T. Pretty easy moves, but plenty of E. below!

Eldorado Canyon, Wind Tower, Calypso. Top of first pitch just past the roof traverse. This route has three starts 5,8,6 respectively from the bottom. Then climbs a nice dihedral(4) to a roof. Protect the roof and round it. Route goes at a (6) after you pass around the roof with minimal protection. Yellow and Green Alien worked well in piton scars just around the right side of the roof. Not bomber but good. If your pieces pull here - you pendulum into the block of the dihedral - not good. Climb gets a little slick here but is good climbing. Once you pass a few feet up then you begin to find some good pro again. Save a #3 for the top 10 feet of the pitch. Climber: bustinmins/Photo taken by Nextascent

Dave is through all the major difficulties on Emerald City. Doesn't he look relaxed?

Dave starts up Five-Eight Crack, protected by a #2 rp placement. Photo by Ingrid Nelson.

Dave about to pull into the crux of Emerald City, a great 5.9 route on Rincon Wall, on a cold January day. Photo by Charles Vernon

Dave at the start of Emerald City on Rincon Wall. Temp. is about 40 degrees, with an icy breeze.

Dave toughin' it out and sewin' it up on a balmy January day (70 degrees!).

This is me following P2 of Breezy. The picture is way better than the route.

Eldoroado is my favorite place to climb in Colorado. Here scotty is visiting from Austrailia and is following Clementine, a fun, easy climb on the whale's tail.

I told Dom I would shoot his first multipitch, if he bought me dinner. A good trade fer sure.

Dave's leading the pitch, Vince's belaying, I am taking pictures.

Ben and Boulos doing Your Mother high on the Bastille. January 2004.

Kim on P3 of the Great Zot at Eldo. This is the climb that started the addiction.

at the top of the yellow spur arete. what a fun climb and I will be back for the rp of the 10a var. of this climb

me getting ready to head up the Northcutt direct start to the Bastille crack. flew through the crack section, then flailed on the face moves. tooo much fun

Me, starting the excellent 3rd pitch hand traverse of Rewritten in Eldo. Rocknap and I took Redpointron and Fanaderhand up this route when they were here in Sept. 04. Photo by Redpointron.

I'm not sure if this route is even in the route DB right now. It starts in a chimney on the far left side on the Wind Tower. It's the first route I got to climb in Eldorado Canyon and it was a lot of fun.

Decked out in white painter's pants and 2" tubular webbing swami belts(no leg loops...the belayer chose the comfort of a belay seat),Gambler leads the 2nd pitch back in 1974!

Here I am clueless. I thought I was about to lead up Washington Irving 5.6 but instead I ended up leading an 8+ pitch and attempting the 9+s section of Strawberry Shortcut. Nice learning experience to see that I'm more capable of doing things I didn't realize I was ready for. In retrospect it was good but really I was scared. The gear was NOT good at all. Photo by ZOZO!

Easy chimney at the top of Bastille Crack.