This is a self portrait after a rather interesting night of sleep on a ledge at the rocker block.

A shot from my ledge looking up at the pitches to come.

A shot from atop pitch two or three of moonlight butteress of spaceshot.

Diamond Dave enjoying an evening atop pich 5. Photo: Devan Johnson

Very good route for the beginers in aid climb.Possible free climb 5.12 if you can.

This picture was taken right off of the 8th pitch belay. This is one stellar route. I thought that this thing was supposed to be crowded. We didn't see anyone else jump on this route the week that we were there. (March 2005)

On the Moonlight Buttress Jan 1st 2004. Taken by Steve Hyatt.

Brian blew a piece after some hook moves and landed on my head. Happily, he had a screamer on an angle so that's what caught him.

This is me cleaning my friend Brian's lead on Lunar Ecstacy, my first and favorite route in zion so far. It's a fun route. I was happier than i look cause this must have been at the lead swap and the top half was mine!

Self-portrait from the top of P1, Moonlight Buttress. I took some serious shots, but none of them turned out worth a damn. Ah, well...goofy poses are my specialty anyway.

John (vegastradguy) reaches the belay during our ascent of Moonlight Buttress in January '04.

Jugging only the 3rd pitch of Moonlight Buttress. Instant exposure!

We Climbed Sheer Lunacy in 3 days, it was either that or sleep in Mosquito Cove and the view was better on Moonlight Buttress. I think we had the ledge set up by 3pm both nights and didn't start climbing until around 11am. This was taken on top of Tokerville Tower, about 180' from the top. We almost fixed the last bit before going to bed but figured if anybody saw, they'd think we were pretty stupid, like the helmet says.

This is Mark Roberson on the 5th pitch (as we did it) of Sheer Lunacy, Moonlight Buttress, Zion Nat'l Park. Tommy Hayes (me) shot the picture from the belay. We took our time on this route, did it in three days because the bivy spots were just so nice.

This is the belay just before the big chimney on Moonlight Buttress. YSW is some good stuff.

Bill and Beth from about 100 feet up Pitch 4 (off rocker blocker) on Moonlight. We did it in 9 hours base to top.

This is probably pitch 7 since I was super tired and Bill caught up to me. Also the only time I can remember that he was on my right.

Moabbeth getting ready for the long drive to Zion. Hey, is that a beer in your hand? You know what happens to people who drink and drive right??

This is a good shot of Bill cleaning. I have short fixed and only got like 15 feet out before Bill got to the anchor. Beth is below having fun jugging.

This is the anchor before the final buldge on Moonlight Buttress. Just showing some short fixing.

So I hear horrow stories about this awkward chimney on P5 and how it is a buzzkill for alot of people. No, it isn't that bad. Also there is a damn bolt right in the middle of it. It protects with a #4 camalot. Does anyone carry big gear anymore, or should we just bolt everything bigger than hands?

I know, you have to zoom in a bit to see them, but they are there.

Nothing but air below while hanging out at the hanging belay of P5 of Moonlight Buttress. Paul was leading above, I was hanging out bringing up my rope and looked down to see the sublime air between me and the ground. That's my ascender in the lower left corner.

I love jugging THISSSSSSSS much!!!! Don't care if I'm leading, cleaning, jugging, I'm on the wall so I'm happy just being.

A little frazzled after a day of aid climbing.