Photos by hasbeen

Bob Banks on The Tempest, in the ampitheatre. The first hold has reportedly broken, and now's there are probalby 6 5.13 projects in this area. Where is everybody? photo; Jason Houston

Reputed Mack of the Year, Stainless, and world-renouned apline climber/author Greg Crouch discuss the possibility of freeing the Polish route on Fitz Carroldo. umm, right... photo: Belt Potter

Forget the name of this short, but very cool, problem. Who is that, Normal Guy? photo: Emmanuel Overdrive

Torgo, The Rogue, on The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. photo: Jason Houston

Folks were lining up, day one, once Louie redpointed this insta-classic, Buddha Belly 12b. I was fortunately enough to grab the second, right after taking a fall from this point on my first try. photo: Louie Anderson

Dave Tidwell on an early ascent of Misguided, back when the crux dyno was off a mono (now perhaps not the crux). Still one of the better sport climbs in SoCal. photo: Steve Edwards

Which one of these amigos has been biking a lot? The one who's properly attired. That tan line's a dead giveaway. A plethora of classic moderate problems make Pine Mt the perfect place for endurobouldering, sport of the future... photo: Deb Merlo

Kind on old hat these days, but The Drifter is still classic. Kevin Thaw on the famous sloper. photo: Steve Edwards

Once this problem was sorta hard. Now it's the warm-up for all the stuff around it. Mike Flood in the cave. photo: Steve Edwards

When I first saw this I thought it was the perfect boulder problem. I still do. Kevin getting ready for teh big moe. Amazing! photo: Steve Edwards

Sam Owings on a nice exposed 5.9. photo: Steve Edwards

Penny on Dues Servomachina photo: Steve Edwards

Penny at the MST3K, back when television was great. photo: Steve Edwards

Phil Requist on his route, Buddhist Palm. If you move off the actual Buddhist Palm hold, your arm goes numb for 3 days, hence the route has seen no mortal redpoints. photo: Steve Edwards

"China is here." What does that mean? I don't even know what that means. photo: Steve Edwards

Kevin Thaw about to do the dance... photo: Steve Edwards

Victoria "Torgo" St. Clair on some 5.8. photo: Steve Edwards

Canary Island Heli-Tour leader Wolfgang Leeb strolls up Epic Garuda. photo: Steve Edwards

Sporting some sorta Curt Smith early-90's do, Wolfie warms up his tendons. photo: Steve Edwards

Tuco the Rat at his favorite spot on the planet, chasing rocks at the Teri Polo boulder, one of the single best boulders near Santa Barbara. photo: Steve Edwards

Andy Murtomaki goes bolt testing at Otay. photo: Steve Edwards

Hmmm, for a short cliff Jeff Brown makes it look pretty exposed, or perhaps it's just due to the size of the holds. photo: Steve Edwards

Ratso enthusiastically asks for a rock to be thrown as Bob steps up to Gyroscope, "the best bouder problem in the world." photo: Steve Edwards

Tuco snarls are the terrible fall that temps his boudering pals, Steve and Bob, on The Undertaker. Photo: Jonathan Kingston

The left to right low traverse across the short north face of the Trojan boulder features powerful crimps to heinous slopers. Randy Judycki works the beginning. photo: Steve Edwards