Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 C2F - 4th class traverse to dead tree. Single fixed rope, duct taped in places and knot tied at core shot.

Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 C2F - Bivy on catwalk 400' up the wall next to dead tree start of P1.

Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 C2F - Looks good but didn't work. To sloping, ended up taking everything out of pig, placing it on the ledge, attached it close to wall and climbed inside it to prevent sliding off the wall.

Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 C2F - View of Leaning Tower after making last rap.

Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 C2F - Summit shot looking west. Light is hitting GREAT BIVY ledge on top of P10.

Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 C2F - Looking up at P10 from poor bivy at top of P9.

Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 C2F - 1st rap down into the chimney/gully.

Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 CF2 - 1st slab rap from summit down to small tree in center of image.

Leaning Tower - WEST FACE V 5.7 C2F - Image of Leaning Tower.

Leaning Tower West Face. I had to check out the overhangs after seeing Pass the Pitons Petes photos of Climbchick jugging the fixed line. Picture of myself after cleaning pitch one and two (bolt ladder) and getting ready to lead three and four.

The scariest jug of my life, done first thing in the morning. Hell of a way to start the day! Photo by PTPP.

Pete got this shot of me on the West Face of the Leaning Tower. The guy way down beneath me was doing his first solo.

Bridalveil falls and Leaning Tower. Yosemite National Park. photo by Quang-Tuan Luong, all rights reserved.

This is a portrait of me with the Leaning Tower in the background

Looking down at bivy gear on Ahwahnee Ledge, and my partner Bob Boggs who is belaying me.

Me jugging on Leaning Tower a pitch or two from the top.

Having a ball the first day on leaning tower....I have the blisters to prove it!

Looking down on josh on the last pitch on the west face. Hes standing on the "poor bivy for one" ledge which is much more slanting then it looks. Gota love the mid-lead photo shot.

This is my bro josh heading out to the base of the west face of leaning tower during the first few days of april. This was our first wall and damn was it intense! The morning of departure from camp 4 we woke up to drizzle, storm clouds, and fresh snow at the rim. By noon, amid still stormy skies we just couldnt hold back and started hitch hicking. This is the evening of that night. Over the next two days it cleared up, and we got to learn what it is all about.

Bolt start of West Face