Photos by bvb

this secluded and little-known area has vast potential for those willing to do the 100 mile drive from flagstaff.

some burly dude from phoenix does the heart cave, avoiding the dreaded curt shannon "signature series" beta.

drew applies maximum torque to the heel-toe cam, midway through this vee-sharma flagstaff testpiece

curt sails toward the bucket on the heart cave problem, using his shannon "signature series" beta.

sam pulling hard in an obscure limestone draw near flagstaff

extraordinary color accents this extraordinarily good highball in an obscure canyon near flagstaff

blood crushed out of his tips at 500 psi, ryan pimps and crimps through the crux of a new B2 boulder problem at glorias rocks, march '05

after 20' of horizontal, luke breaks out into the sun and the angle 'eases' into an 8 foot, 120 degree headwall.

"world leader pretend", a stellar roof problem near preist draw, arizona. photo by jocelyn van belle

andy on an obscure roof near preist draw, arizona

jvb on the steep and unrelenting center route on the brain, big rocks, utah.

jvb on the impeccable rock of "the shield" at big rocks, near capitol reef national park.

bvb on the steep, positive cutter edges of "radio free loa", big rocks, utah. photo by john wason

bvb on an unnamed 5-star highball at big rocks. photo by jocelyn van belle.

moving into the crux wide fists section of this unnamed, dead-horizontal, 17' roof crack. photo by andy d.

a scary, unnamed 20-footer on "the vert" boulder, hankry mountains, utah.

goldrush, typical of the stellar rock and thought-provoking heights found on hankry mountains boulder problems. photo by john wason.

noah's arete, one of the best boulder problems in utah. photo by john wason.

Oldskooler Vaino Kodas hiked this Priest Draw classic as a warm-up before moving on to the much harder sends. Your climbing prime begins at 40....

Note to sportclimbers, pocket fiends, and tusconites: bring tape. lots of it.

FA of Carnivore, and half the other early hards in PD. he da Man.

A small Basalt crag near Gloria's. Quiet, secluded, and choice.

You don't find true splitter cracks in Flagstaff limestone too often, but they're out there. Here, JVB launches out this superb 18' hands and fingers roof, predictably referred to as "The Bachar Cracker of Flagstaff"

Still crimping after all these years, old man shannon puts the smackdown on Jim Gault's overhanging crimpfest meat tenderizing nightmare at Gloria's. Ouch.

Another angle on this rarely-seen five star splitter. If you like pain, this bud's for you.