Photos by eldiente

Sort of like a ladder cut out of granite. Perfect hand crack for Sue.

Sue claims it was the best routes she's ever lead. It would be hard to argue aginst that. The view is great and the climbing is well, really good.

I forget the name of the peak but I believe it was Ingalls or something like that. Easy scramble to the ridge with a few pitches of 5th class climbing on a ridge. This route is right about Stuart Lake.

A nice little summit block with Mount Stuart in the background. A little cold and windy up there but overall not a bad day in the mountains.

I thought the climbing at North Bend was just so-so, but the rope swing off exit 38 was much fun. I can't believe my crappy diggi camera actually caught the action like this.

Hey that's Mount Stuart in the background. To bad we didn't get to climb it. Oh well, we probably would have froze our bums off. I love this lake though

A good way to finish the day of climbing with a jump into the river.. I think we both had complaints of hurting our feet as the water was a little shallow.

I shot this picture of my sailboat ""Lucille" moored at the base of Beacon Rock. Not only was the climbing wonderful, the sail up to Beacon Rock was pretty exciting it its own right. What could be better than sailing to such a nice crag.

Sue at Big Ledge on the 3rd Pitch of Dods Jam. The view from the ledge is great and is a good rest after pulling through the steeper stuff on the 3rd pitch. From Big Ledge we climbed a nice .9 corner system to a belay and than bush whacked a lower 5th class pitch to the tourist trail. Overall one of the better routes out there.

Myself leading Windsurfer. A really fun route as it gives the full body workout. Lots of stemming and a few nice underlings to get around the small roofs.

Another fun Beacon Rock problem. The light went flat late in the day so the pictures didn't come out that well. thankfully the shade moved in so it was cool climbing in the breeze.

The scenery is great when crossing the river from the West side of Lower gorge to East side. Unfortunately once the river is crossed the trail is horribly bushey until you get down by the student wall.

Sue starting into the corner crack of the second pitch of the West Face Variation. Not an all bad climb but there was some easy manky stuff mixed in with the nice corners.

I forgot the name of this crack but oh my god was it beautiful. We hit this climb at the very end of the day and I was really impressed, I'v never heard of this climb before. Underlings under a series of roofs with good jams in between.

Not the best pic but the view behind me is pretty solid. Note to self, climb this rock when it is the shade. It is a real cooker when the sun gets on it.

The finger crack at the start of this climb is a lot of fun, to bad my fingers are to large for most of the locks. Sue has a small fingers and cruised right up one of the better crack climbs at Smith. Nice view up there too.

Bill leading the roof on "Gun Rack". Overall a good weekend even though we got rained on, lost a sleeping bag somewhere along the highway, and were almost bitten by rattle snakes. Hey at least the climbing was good..

Bill pulling into the under clingey part of Javelin. A fun route that I though would go all natural but having to place gear while locked out in that under cling proved to be to much for me so I ended up clipping the bolt at the crux. Yeah yeah

I shot this blurry picture looking down at the belay on the third pitch of Crimson Chrysalis. I wish I could recall what the climbing was like on this pitch but all just kind blurred together. Maybe a wide crack out left with some faces moves out right.. Sounds about right.

Cliché summit picture for sure. This was a nice little 5.8 romp to the top of Whiskey peak. Again I was freezing my ass off and again we had trouble with the crowds. We passed a slow party on pitch 2 but than we became sort of slow when I missed the belay on pitch 3. Still some funs moves mixed in with some easy terrain and a few easy run-outs.

Ahh finally a bit of sun. The last few belays were hella cold so i was really glad to move out into the sun. The pitch before this was sort of interesting. I opted to climb the easy face holds instead of the better ugly chimney crack to the left.

The sharp prickly plants were in full effect with all the we wether that Vegas hah this winter. I so want one of these for my boat. This is about half-way down the hike from Black Velvet wall

This might be the on only all bolted route we climbed in our week long stay in the SW. Suz is to short to hit the clips from the good stances so she had to resort to using a rubber band to extend her reach for for the first clip. I have to give her props as that first clip is a long reach for me even with my long arms.

Suz working a lose boulder problem after climbing on the Brass Wall. I really had high hopes for this picture but my cheap digital camera could not get the metering correct and I haven't had the time to attempt a PS fix job. Still it was a great sunset and fun boulder problem

Myself on the lay-back of 30 seconds over Potash. Yeah yeah I've climbed this so many times that I don't know why I even bother. It is so hard to walk by this climb and not want to jump on it, fun easy moves all the way to the anchor with little aliens.