Photos by superbum

Vic Lawson redpointing Espresso Crack. Photo by Kevin Calder.

Vic Lawson redpointing Espresso Crack. Photo by Kevin Calder.

Nice photo of sarah following z crack (.12a) Lots of exposure!

Trisha following the last part of the last pitch of Bad Daddy...perfect finger flake!

This is me on the second to last pitch of The third Pillar of dana...SPLITTER! You should do it.

View of entire route as seen from first pitch belay stance. long but cruiser!!!

View of Charlotte dome as seen aproaching from the east. Still a ways to go to get to the camping. The south face classic line is pretty much the skyline. Awesome.

Michael putting in a crappy blue alien before launching off into hard 5.10 runout scaryness. Either we were off route or this climb was sandbagged. We both got it clean though making him the wind beneath my wings.

Hard to tell, but I am wedged in this manly chimney, sticking my arms out. blood and guts.

This here is an awesome splitter. It was raining when this was taken so the detail and lighting sucks...but you can tell it's a good one!

This is a view of Old Smokey from the road where you park. Good Hip Vibes takes the obvious left crack.

Me crossing the 3rd class exposed mini-ledge on Dragon Peak in the high Sierra, fondly called the Holdless Horror in refrence to the blind person who described this well featured slab as holdless...

This climb is super fun! Steep, jugs for rests and hard little cruxes. Almost no gear at the top makes this route stick in your mind...Try the traverse at the bottom too...awesome, and crowd free!

This is my buddy Shane's dog Levi wondering what in the hell is going on. The buttermilks aren;t just about the boulders ya know...Cullen about to enter the .11a crux moves on Abandonment Issues

Here is Caveman Dan getting ready to cross Liddy's Mouth. Note Vanessa's yoga pose in the background...

Jason walking on water as we head towards Bishop Pass to climb Mt. Agassiz. Needless to say, it was COLD!

Another Jedi Pic...except from a new point of view. Spotter's ready?

Vanessa enjoying our favorite stop on the way to the Pollengrains...

Great climb, great position, hard enough to challenge and frustrate...Here is Dan demonstrating the dynamic caveman beta

Another Gift pic. My right hand is on a very open-handed sloper. You match there, bring your feet up and reach up and over the lip to the only feature on top of the boulder...a tiny crimp rail. Rock over and DON'T FALL! bad landing from there...

In the middle of the first crux. Notice the bad handholds. What is really holding weight is your heel. If you miss going for the left sloper you fall straight on your back! The next hold is a jug where you can rest for the top out deadpoint second crux. Best problem ever!

This is the first crux on the gift. From these holds with the heel you have to bump out left to a small sloper (see next pic.) when you are tired and pumed w/ a bad right hand. Brilliant.

Here is another pic of my route Smoke Screen and the crack beside it. Smoke screen follows the black streak up to the twin white spots where there is a flake and a bolt. A big reach out right to another thinner flake, then the first horizontal. HUGE reach (or dyno) up to the next horizontal. DO NOT USE THE VERTICAL CRACK! From there stay left of the mini roof block, protect the next horizontal and continue over the bulge to the top of the wall. 5.10+. Harder if you are short.

This is my beloved old school wooden axe (that I need to sharpen and stain) hanging out on the john...

This is a picture of my rack (software). No, I don't carry this up the rock every time, but these are the things I own...

This is a picture of my rack (hardware). No, I don't carry this up the rock every time, but these are the things I own...

Well, as you can see, the sun is JUST coming over the ridge. That means that it is COLD, the creeks are frozen, the road is closed, the cracks of our intended route are filled with ice, and I am pissed. A miscalculation in direction made us sit and get high on coffee while our route stayed nice and shady. fck.

yet another Pigpen pic. Here I am swinging my leg into the maw...I can't remember if this was the leg that should go in there or if it was the other...fckn hard bloody crack!

Here we go, another pig pen pic. Even though the quality sucks, you can see the crack and the leg-eater hole. Hardest v3 on the planet.

"OH MY GOSH! Stop the fckn car!" That was a direct quote from me when I first saw this awesome feature. It's hard to tell at first, but this is a large, smooth tubelike cylinder that is about 50ft to the leftmost ledge with another 20ft of headwall above. I had some serious goes on toprope (I cleaned a crack just above the left hump/ledge, you can see it) and now believe it to be impossible. Now, I realize I am not a great climber, but the steepness combined with the fragile and tiny nature of the holds leads me to think that no amount of skill, strength or sticky rubber can accend this feature. If ANYONE succedes, let me know!!!!

On the way back to Indian Creek after a rest day in Moab, literally stumbled upon this vulture paradise...I LOVE THE DESERT! Serves the rancher right....

Awesome lighting developed after a rest day stop at the canyonlands outpost. Had to snap this pic on the way back to camp...one of my favorite walls in the creek.

I just love the way slickrock looks under a smattering of clouds. One almost gets the feeling that the wall is rushing towards you.

This here is jordan lookin good but pussing out and opting for the 5.6 line. Laugh and point...

CAmper nearing the big ledge and finishing jug. Cool route for beginners and a solid anchor with mnimal gear.

This is an easy fast way to this spectacular summit. In fact, Paradise Point Camp in McCall uses this route for an outing called Mountain Adventure Camp. Fun!

This again is me sporting the new 'du figuring out the next move on an over 200' traverse near where we camp with the kids. Most moves were really chill, but there were some spicy sections...

This is the view from the summit of Snowslide Mtn...straight down the west face...over 1400' down to the lake! We take 13 year olds up here!

This is Stephen, glad to be short on a boulder on the shore of Snowslide Lake. we are on a much needed break from worrying about 13 junior high kids who we take backpacking every year.

This is me sporting my new mohawk at a boulder on the shore of Snowslide Lake. I am on a much needed break from worrying about 13 junior high kids who we take backpacking every year.

Now, that's runout! That red sling just above the bush is a green alien in a shitty pod and is the last piece before the belay. That's me at the belay. The climbing is pretty easy, but it is still exilerating to be so far above your gear.

Here is stephen in front of the Aspen Boulder...what a gigantic rock! Bishop size! To be fair, Stephen is freakishly short... The Main Vein ascends the center of the shaded face to the left of Stephen. Come climb it!

Here I am looking down from the summit on Stephen...he is allready about 7 feet off of the ground with a ways still to climb...highball, but easy and fun!

Here I am showing off at a no hands stance that looks quite unlikely in this photo...this problem is not as steep as it looks in the picture...even though I wish it was...

Well, stephen giving it the old college try...and college is probably the reason he can't do it! Ha ha...just kidding stephen!

Pure power reaches on slopers and tiny crimps...beautiful but extremely short. Couldn't even come close to doing it last year...this year however I found a hidden hold...

my right hand isn't on the best of holds but it is enough to swing left and topout...best problem on the boulder! An area classic! Five stars! Holey Toleedo!

C.S from a different view. Those slopers are just enough to stay on the rock...perfect problem!

Stephen is about to fall but one could imagine for a moment that he just stuck that right hand and his feet swung and he is in the process of being a beast and poking them back on the rock...ahhhh.

Stephen working the moves on the best (and first) route on the Aspen boulder...a coupla different ways to do it from the stand up start...but the sit start weeds out the short and powerless...ha ha...