Photos by addiroids

This is the anchor before the final buldge on Moonlight Buttress. Just showing some short fixing.

Me trying to pull out the drilled angles. It was dark, they were solid. That's good.

And I am not referring about the lynching of Yosemite rangers.

So I hear horrow stories about this awkward chimney on P5 and how it is a buzzkill for alot of people. No, it isn't that bad. Also there is a damn bolt right in the middle of it. It protects with a #4 camalot. Does anyone carry big gear anymore, or should we just bolt everything bigger than hands?

...lick the ice. So this is the ice version of me licking a biner chain on West Face of LT. However you can't lick ice tools, so I decided to lick the snow. Look at the protrusion of that lingual organ...any ideas ladies? :)

This is Bill on the approach. It actually turned out to be a good picture with the human subject centered and the walls of the canyon all drawing the eye down to the subject. Ain't I suffisticated and such?

3rd pillar of Dana Mountain from the drive to Lee Vining. There is just a lot of striking color and lines in this picture. Looks like a great route to climb. 3rd Pillar is the main arete on the triangular shaped rock in the center.

I liked the picture of the cover of Alpinst 4 magazine, so I wanted to make my own version. Pretty hard core being taken in a motel in Lee Vining, but I do have a cut over my eye.

I know, you have to zoom in a bit to see them, but they are there.

So this is what ice climbing is huh? I think I will stick to rock thankyouverymuch. The results of a long day on the Bard Harrington in Lee Vining.

So I broke trail on the last part of the approach, and low and behold, TWO CHARLET MOSER tools!!! Brand New!!!!!! Dude, this is the best booty of my life!

Ohh yeah, you had better bet I grabbed these...but alas, the rightful owner came up the approach 3 hours later complaining that this was supposed to be a rest day. I reluctantly told him they were in my pack. I barely got a thanks. But I DID do the right thing right? Ohh well, if I would have kept them, then I might have HAD to start ice climbing. Now I have an excuse to be a fair weather aids climber.

The falls were really in shape Feb 2004. Really fun for my first time on ice.

Bill on the approach. I just like this pic because it is so symmetrical.

Well, it was finally time to do it. Heard about it for a few years, but as we were walking by, it was just time. Really not hard climbing. Only about 10 feet of climbing

Okay, so the climbing is the easy part. Here is the hard part. Just don't screw up and do something stupid like fall.

Pbcowboy and I were waiting for a buddy to come down the trail and I decided to do a little buildering. Notice the black streak on the shirt from the "real body belay". Taken by: PBCOWBOY

This was a fun route, even if it was short. It felt hard, but Andrew sailed up it on TR. Bring a #4ish stopper to protect the 2nd on the last bit before the slab crossing.

This is a shot of the King Fisher in Utah. I didn't get to climb it then, but I will someday.

I was climbing behind Allen Steck, and I asked his name. He said, "Have you ever heard of the Steck-Salathe?" I said, "Are you Allen Steck?!?!" (I knew John Salathe had died a bit back) He said, "Yes I am." So I got a pic with him. L to R: Allen Steck, Inez Drexilius, Addiroids

Here is Paul on one of his first run out leads in Joshua Tree.

This is my first trad lead on Swan Slab. It is on the 5.11c or 5.8 C1F Aid Crack that my buddy couldn't pull off the start to. I did it and just kept going. I was hyperventilating when I got to the chains. Finally, I am a real climber (even if the route did have 3 bolts and chipped holds at the start).

This was on my trip to Colorado over fall break in college. My buddy who I thought was a better climber didn't even want to climb this because the start was hard. It was my first 5.9 lead. I am now back to leading 5.9.

Doing the meathead way of the bottom part of Jaws. The problem goes left to right, then climbs up the flakes 3 feet to my right. The coolest thing about this is that the crystals in the mouth are seriously 2-3 inches tall. My favorite boulder problem.

Yes, I have been sport climbing. But this place is really pretty and was developed by Tommy Caldwell and his dad. And I do have tied slings on me as well. This is probably in the wrong section, but I don't remember what the name of the area it is in.