Photos by madman_dan

Sam Gibson leading trad during this year's Red River Rendezvous. Matt Jones on belay.

Taken on 05/28. This girl gave everyone down at the coliseum an awesome show on this route. I'm not sure of her name but if anyone recognises her (or if you see yourself) please let me know.

It isn't as mesmorising as the real thing but it looks pretty does'nt it ?

View of the fall from the exposed overlook.

It was to cold to swim so I did the next best thing, take pictures. Since it had rained the day before we got there the water was really gushing and the setting was just extraordinary.

This is me on my second lead outside, ever. Before doing this I lead the 5.5 to the right of this rout. Very fun stuff.

Before we left Moab we visited Dead Horse Point and just as we were about to leave we turned around and the very ordinary sky lit up and began to burn with red and orange and pink. It was one of the best sunsets I had ever seen. Just wish I had a better camera to capture truly capture the colours.

A group of fourteen of us from Ohio went to Moab for spring break earlier this year. We reached there at 11:30pm and we set up camp by the river. We had no idea of the beauty that awaited us after sunrise. This is a picture of the rocks across the road from the camp site. As soon as we woke up got to scrambling up to the top. If you look carefully you can see that theres a person on the rock towards the right side of the picture.

After 2 days of having to bail we finally summited on the third. This is me signing the logbook that's up on the summit just before it started to rain. We got soaked on the way down but it was worth it.

Just another one of me from a belay ledge somewhere on the South-west face. We did'nt get to summit that day because it got dark when we were only 100' from the top.

This is me looking out from the third pitch of Le Gourmet (4 pitches of 5.4). It was a perfect Fall Break day for my first trad experience.