Photos by missedyno

After a fun day of ice climbing @ Bancroft, ON. Time to climb a telephone pole - I am always interested in shenanigans. Realized later that not even including gear, my outfit is over $1K. Bling bling. Does this qualify as dry tooling?

dynamic move on a problem that has something to do with lemons. one of my favourites in squamish, tucked away out of sight.

as close to slab climbing as i need to get

lead me to your crimpy lowball traverse!

the send of shots fired before they blow up this boulder. excited spotter is my hottie hot friend yen, this was taken june or july 2007

i spent a bit over two weeks in joshua tree, and i have a number of pictures of other people, but this was the only time i handed my camera over and got someone else to take some pictures of me.
so there you go, just a picture of me close to the ground in j-tree.

i was having a bit of a blah day and wasn't really feeling inspired. the guys were working on this problem, and i dropped by to try it out. here i am trying to stick the crossover to the jug. not sure if i'm even capable of the throw at the end, but i'll be going back to try for sure.

i've moved into the obed on the next stage of my roadtrip. here i am redpointing violator at south clear creek.
this route has quickly become a favourite and i'm glad i can hang my own draws and push through the pump to the end.

i really didn't think this was the problem for me, but brought my tall friend jay over to work it. i figured i'd be the spotter but it looked like fun so i tried it out.
here i am, just got the two campus moves out from the stand start. at this point i got my feet up and my friend put the camera down to spot slash hold the extra pad over the rock just beside this line.
it was a lot of fun and i was really surprised that i got it since i don't have many opportunities to campus. i think we counted 7 hand moves and 3 foot moves for the entire problem, which is inverse to the sorts of problems i normally climb.

during my stay at horsepens, mulletino was adopted as my project. here i am working it on the warmest day of my visit.
after this move i get a solid toe hook around the corner and bump to a jug. this is the move where i feel like a starfish glued to the underside of the rock. much fun ensues.

hey look at this! brevard is known for its white squirrels but it took us a few days of searching to find this little guy, who subsequently posed for the pic!

my first time climbing outdoors for a few months, and my first time climbing on my roadtrip. i made it to the top of this problem and shyed away from topping out. it's good to have projects anyway - no worries!

thanks to andrew for taking the picture!

jessica speaks of herself in the third person as she leads a 10a in Kamouraska, Quebec. it was a very fun route with a bit of everything - crimpers, jugs, a crackline and don't forget the crappy undercling.

I have no idea what particular problem this is, but it was a lot of fun - crimpy holds and bad feet to start. Photo was taken in July of 2005. We didn't have a guidebook, but just had fun figuring out the problems we could find. What you can't see in the picture is that i'm covered in citronella spray as an attempt to ward off the indiscriminating mosquitos.

The lowdown quickly became my project for the trip. This was one of many attempts when I was quite close to finishing.
Here I am about to slap the sloper to prepare for the mantle finish.
Photo by John (johnfromohio) who we met down there.
i ended up completing the problem later in the day, after dark with a headlamp to see where i was going.

The description of this route on rc.com mentions to start "just past a cave". Well that isn't included in the description in the guide book. i scared myself through a number of moves, yes THROUGH THE CAVE and took my first (very small) trad fall on a #2 friend when my handhold broke off. i ended up lowering off and we went back to get the cam the next day. Note to self: need to improve route finding skills

Damian leading Here Kitty Kitty. You can see my nose in the bottom of the pic as I look up to belay him.
More importantly, you can see the chalkbag I made for him in action!

My last day in Red Rocks - the snow melted and we had beautiful clear skies. A lot of fun climbing at Dog Wall - I must say it was my best day on the entire trip - no pictures of me though, here's one of Damian warming up.
you can see edward the chalkbag in action there as well...

Another angle to see Edward - the bunny rabbit chalkbag. To make this bag I took apart a small stuffed animal, made a few design changes to accomodate a fleece liner, and also put pipe cleaners in the arms so they may be posed.
edward has seen many nice climbing areas, although he's always hanging upsidedown.
See another picture of Edward here.

Here's a pic of the chalkbag (named Edward) that I made for my partner. I made the bag earlier this year and am just getting around to uploading the pics.
When chalking up, his ears, arms and legs go flying and it's really quite humourous to watch. Seeing as how this is a decapitated rabbit, I am still confused when people say it's so "cute". See another photo of Edward here.

Damian climbing something slabby on mass production wall, Red Rocks

Starting up Vega bonds. Kind of a high up first clip...

Why why... we went to black corridor, one of the colder crags on our only warm sunny day of the trip. Here I am warming up on a 5.9 of some sort - Bonaire or Bon EZ. I forget, but it's the one to the left.

Just a nice warm up climb first thing in the morning.

Why not... we couldn't find the crag that day and decided to go for a walk. Can't keep us from climbing something though!

About to gather my gear to move to the next route, I looked down to see, to my horror, that I was being attacked by a Killer Caterpillar! As I stood there paralyzed in fear, someone took a picture of me at my weakest moment.

Having clipped the draw to the bolt seconds earlier, Paul eyes the clip he'd really like to make. I could see his left hand slowly losing it's place on the rock.

Damian working through the crimpy technical low crux on Skin Flute (12a) - Oil Crack Wall, RRG Kentucky.

For some strange reason i had difficulty on this climb last year when I was new to leading outdoors. (well not new but definitely not good at it.) I came back to prove a point to this climb and led it with ease. Alot of ease. I was very happy.

My first 10b outdoor lead! I toproped this climb last season but for whatever reason it looked easy this time, and I had a great time leading it. What fun!

After clipping the rope, i hang out on a comfortable ledge for a very very long time looking at the next move. I really don't like aretes...

Here I am on the arrowhead, clipping my rope, and about to get seriously freaked out at the next move. Things are so different on lead...

Finally my own butt shot of me pulling the roof on creature feature. Initially too much for me when I started leading, I sent this with ease. And had a lot of fun, too.

Well of course there was a lineup for this classic fun climb. Damian led this without any real difficulty, fun to watch.

During our recent trip to Squamish/Whistler, Roo (sunsation) showed us this small bolted wall very close to the road. We climbed all three routes as a cool down for the day. Pleasant climbing, closer to vertical than the slabby things we had been scaring ourselves on earlier.

Well it's a 5.5 but it was my first 5.5 on trad. open book crack climb - decent placements. at the point in the picture i was madly shaking out while arguing with a placement (finally got it and it was a great placement!) unfortunately it was one of my last as at the top of the climb there is a small mantle move, i was hoping to find a placement above it - and that was the end of the climb. trad leading is fun.

Like the description says... Hanging out on the top of the cliff getting the rappell anchor ready lower onto Maneline - Maneline Wall - Lion's Head Ontario.

Just a neat pic from a walk around our campground at Gatineau Park. Climbing trip to the Eardley Escarpment.

At The Shrine crag on the Eardley Escarpment - Quebec. After doing a few routes, we talked to another couple that showed up and heard of the sandbagged quality of the routes at this crag in particular. I'd have to agree.

Just about to rappell onto Maneline - Lions Head Ontario. A great route - pumpy start. Like how I just blend into the backround.

Went for a hike in Halfway Dump Park - just north of Lion's Head. Found a little tunnel problem that started in a cave and then gave birth to you out of the rock. I thought it was only suitable to come out head first.

Rappelling off our last climb of the day - enjoying the view as the sun went down.

Ah, the gang's all here. Kind of a where's waldo effect, let's see who can identify everyone! This was Saturday morning as we all met and discussed climbs to do. Photo by fawkes' partner damian.

OK OK, so rob was right, he was the only one spotting Dom. But Dom did super well on the deck problem and we all spotted him with our faith from somewhere on the beach.

I love this picture almost as much as the photographer. Damian took this shot Monday morning as we packed up. The clouds cleared and good for all of you that made it out climbing. we had a great drive home. Thanks again for the hospitality, Juliana's family.... (picture nicer in original form, PM me if you'd like a copy, I had to squish it down to fit it on the DB.)

then I had a shot at the problem. i was saying "are you guys spotting me?" i was thinking "hmmm my new camping socks really are warm, just not good looking...."

Lew's next challenge for us all was to traverse under the dock. There are other pics coming, but for now, juliana's dismount was by far the most colorful....

We've all heard now about the deck problem that happened Saturday morning at Jules' place. nick's great to travel with, we just made him into a pretzel shape and shoved him in with all our gear.

Not sure what wall this is on, but it's over by the very beginning start of the via ferratta.

Yeah yeah, sure I'm on TR but it's the first 11a I've finished without major difficulty. Very fun climb.