Photos by hosh

Working out the moves on real rock... He was honestly a little confused as to how it all works on real rock after only having climbed in a gym... I think he's doing rather well on slab...

First time on real rock

First time on real rock.

You have no idea how happy I was to see that my son takes to climbing well and is actually rather good, considering that he's not even 2 years old yet!

the rig, belay devices, slings, rope, extra biners, whatevers else.

This stuff is my favorite! I like hexes, I don't care what every one else is saying.

Metolius and one DMM cam that I don't use much.

Here's my son, his shoes, my helmet, and the first aid kit. It's got a lot of goodness in it, hope I never have to use any of it again.

There's not much, but then again, it's not really my thing.

here's the camalot portion of the rack...

My son's looking to steal my rack already...

here's the wild country portion of the rack.

My son, busy figuring out that he doensn't like DMM cams very much. Neither does his papa. :)

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?

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Another shot of Nick on the 1st bolted route.

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.

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".

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.

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!

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...

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

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?

This is my wife (who climbs really well) and I on our honeymoon in Fiji. Like all the rest of the photos we got on our honey moon, it was taken by my wife (who's arm leads out in all the photos to the top or bottom right of the frame...) My dad used to own this house in Fiji so he said we could stay there for our honeymoon. Then he sold the house to some guy who tore it down to build a bigger one. Oh well. We were the last people to stay in the house...

Ok, so it snows a lot more than I'd like it to. And you can't climb out doors in the winter. Oh, and even in the summer, it rains a lot. But then again, you get to look at stuff like this all the time... Not bad, eh? And (though this isn't from my living room window) I see stuff like this sitting on my couch looking out the window in the afternoon.

So my wife and I had to take a cheesy photo when we saw this sign on our drive to Juneau from San Deigo. Only took us a week to make the trek, too.

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...

This was my first day in Hermanus. It's a cool little fishing village. The surf was REALLY good that day and we actually got almost to the top of one of the mountains before dark. But, when the sun went down and the Braai was lit, we scurried home for some Chutney covered goodness.

If only I was a climber when I lived in South Africa! The view of Table mountain from my back door in Vreedehoek.

This is a photo of my wife and father in law in an ice cave in the mendenhall glacier.