Photos by hosh

He's going to climb trad one day, but first we need to work on his standards for who he's willing to make out with...

Seems as if Steve House is the newest member of team n00b! Welcome aboard, Steve!

My wife and I on a hike. We really weren't climbing, but does that really matter when she's that smokin' hott?

Only a matter of time before he's stealing my rack to go on his own climbing adventures! Only problem so far seems to be that he prefers Zero's and Daddy likes his Aliens. This might be a problem...

This is my son in his first pair of climbing shoes. Pretty soon, he'll be leading trad...

Has anyone noticed the diference in size in the .5's?

CrazyAKclimber took this shot of me in the boulder feild on the medial moraine on the Mendenhall Glacier.

No lie, it's not even 6:30 in this photo. You gotta love Alaska in the summer! A 2 1/2 hour hike to the summit, a little bouldering, a wealth of excelent views and a good night's sleep later, Riley wakes up to head down Mt. Jumbo.

Juneau. What a super town. And if you like mountains, um, there's lots here! The prominant peak in the foreground is Mt. Juneau. Downtown Juneau is obviously at the foot of Mt. Juneau. The ridge running out to the right in the photo is Mt. Roberts/Gastineau Peak. Skyline in the back are the various Juneau Icefield peaks and ranges (Mendenhall towers and Rihno Peak being the most obvious features). I love my town! The town in the foreground, on the same side of the channel as the peak the the pic was taken from, is Downtown Douglas. And just think, it only takes a little over 2 hours to get to where this photo was taken from. All this and no traffic, smog, gang violence or freeways! What more could you want?

this boulder isn't huge but it was pretty fun to traverse around on.

this is my beautiful wife. This photo was snapped on our way back to the Basin last summer. Isn't she cute? :)

this is looking the other way out by the wall by the glacier.

this is a photo of the crux Dihedral on the trad line out at Fritz Cove. It's a pretty fun lead.

nice flowers, eh? This is on the ridge above the basin, you can see the boulder feild in the background.

there's really a lack of good rock to climb in Juneau. But for those who "know", there's this little wall that's about a five mile hike from the road. It's pretty tucked away, like a little hidden valley that only a few know about. It's worth the hike.

Another shot of Nick on the 1st bolted route.

I know Justin's in a weird position in this photo, but that cam he place d started to walk a little and he reached down to readjust it. I thought it was a fun photo though.

Keep in mind that this boulder is about 25 feet high. It's a blast!

I tried to find a nice line through this system of cracks, but it didn't work out so well. The tree I was planning to rap off at the top was dead so I had to down climb and clean. This was extremely challenging due to the overhang...

This is my buddy Nick on his first lead ever. He got everything right on his first try! Congratualtions on getting on the sharp end, nick!

Ok, it's not a 5.10. It's not a death landing. It doesn't even have cool moves. But it's a fun climb and it was in the upper 30's when we climbed it. This is Justin on lead with me belaying.

Nick sets up the anchor on the 1st bolted route. To his right, there's the crack you follow on "lead it and win" and just off the frame further right would be "Pincushion".

Should have turned around... Should have turned around... I think there's a lesson to be learned here, but I'm not sure what it is. I'm going to try to finda better line up this overhang.

So there's this random desert in the middle of the Yukon. My wife and I stopped to check it out and take a few pictures. She took this one of me and I felt like I was a National Geographic photographer or something. It's just really weird because it's a desert but it's really cold and there's mountains you can see in the distance (not in this photo) with tons of snow on them. Not what you'd expect in a desert, you know?

My wife took the shot and I wasn't there at the time. But this is Shiner doing a little recon in Chacos. Who needs stealth C4? :) Shiner used to be my climbing partner, but he went and moved to Idaho. Sucks, man. Maybe I'll have to visit him and climb City of Rocks...