Climbers at Halloween, 2005. OK, I'm submitting this awful photo for the sole reason of adding it to the "worst photos" thread. The world deserves to see this.

Christian warming up on Funkdemental at Cactus Cliffs. Great climb though kinda soft for the grade.

I got my friend Paul to lead his first time on the rock in years. Of course..... I had to run laps on the nice little crack before cleaning it.

A shot of my husband bouldering around the bottom of the cliff... or at least his fingers. Texture, texture, texture.

My son Austin lead this route with me soloing up beside him. Now, every time I'm near it, I always solo it. :-)

This photo really doesn't show how cool this feature was- Relampagos (5.10c) takes its name from the "lightning bolt" arete between a junky block/ledge and a short headwall. You look at it and go "I wanna climb that," so you do. That's zozo stylin' on a crowd-free weekday at Cactus Cliffs.

zozo guns for the anchors on Relampagos (5.10c) while playing hooky on a beautiful Colorado day.

Robert (8) tackles his first sport lead. Route is Alexi's Route (5.5) on Cactus Cliff at Shelf Road.

Beautiful day at the Shelf. My last lead of the day and Mark was generous enough to clean it. It doesn't get any better than this.

Matt moving through the thin reachy crux of this route. The route is relatively easy to this point with some fine jug pulling. Then the business starts - it's what you came for! This photo was taken by Kate Thayer-Clader.

A picture of my wife and I at the base of Cactus Cliffs. Photo by Kate Thayer-Calder.

This is my husband rappelling down after cleaning the anchors on the last climb of the day. Gotta love sunny Colorado -- this was November!

I love morning light in the mountains and the last warm rays of sun in the desert. Here I am on Quaterback at Shelf Rd soaking up some of those rays. Photo by Randy Wong.

Here I am climbing Chunky Monkey. To the photo bomber who votes my photos with 1, here is another 1 for you. Photo by Randy Wong.

Me on some 10 a next that is next to some 5.9. Yeah, I'm the beta master, or is that master beta? Knuck knuck. . .Photo by zozo.

David on a route on shelf road. I can't remember the name. I was just messing around with the color but it came out pretty good.

I love Shelf Road. This is my climbing bud Tanner, kicking it back and relaxing. Tanner and I have done most of our trips together.

This is me taking a break 3/4 the way up the route. My first time to Colorado and it was amazing. The photo was taken by my good friend Chad Hickman.

Here I am leading Dihedrus. Photo taken by coclimber26. Thanks Larry!

Tracy Roach (Mothersheep) leading the popular Dihedrus at Shelf road. Origionally a trad route, now equiped for your clipping pleasure.

The bottom of the route was several 5.9 to 5.10 moves. Then the final moves were 5.11+ maybe 5.12. Variation that I enjoyed is to move left before the last moves and finish on the neighboring route.

Another great Cactus Cliff line. This one is on the east side of the cliff near Whiteman's Burden. It's around 5.10.

This was a fun climb, short for Cactus Cliff standards. Good thin crux, with fun moves.

Taken around sunset after a day of snow and fog. Thirty minutes before this photo was taken the whole cliff was obscured by fog.

1 roof down and 1 to go. Drew Martin cruisin' up wadsworth boulevard 5.10b/c at Shelf Road.