An A.D.D. tour of Art, Climbing, Skiing and other random activities.
Posted in Art, Climb, trip reports on Apr 28th, 2009
STARRING IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Pamela “the offwidth ninja” Pack HJ “does this shirt make me look like Bob Scarpelli” Schmidt AND, OF COURSE, JOSHUA “THE WHITE RASTAFARIAN” TREE Our story begins with the eruption of Mount Redoubt in Alaska. This was not only an ominous omen, (since climbers don’t really like mountains disappearing), but [...]
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Posted in Black Hills, Climb, Family, trip reports on Nov 6th, 2008
HJ and I did some fun climbing in the Cathedral Spires back in August, including the easy classic, Spire Four. The route is straightforward, and the approach is quicker up the back side. The climber’s trail splits off of the Cathedral Spires trail from Needles Highway, and goes up around the southeast side of the [...]
Posted in Art, Black Hills, Climb, random on Nov 5th, 2008
This is a view of the Cathedral Spires in the Black Hills of South Dakota from the southeast. The right hand side is spire 9.
Hey guys, do we really want to go through this again? Notice that Greg is smiling.
Posted in Climb on Jun 30th, 2008
This is for Chris. A nice shot near the top of Goodrich Pinnacle in Yosemite Valley.
Posted in Climb on Mar 31st, 2008
Even though it’s still snowing, some of us are getting psyched for a trip to Devils Tower. So, to help get the psyche going I’m posting up a few photos from trips past. For climbing photos
Posted in Black Hills, Climb, Family, trip reports on Mar 13th, 2008
One of the things we climbed last summer in the Black Hills was this clump of rocks at the top of Pine Creek Natural Area. I’d been looking for this peak for a while, and finally found it two summers earlier by simply hiking uphill. Duh! Simple when you know how. Anyway, HJ, Karyn and [...]
Posted in Black Hills, Climb, random on Mar 12th, 2008
This shot has shown up a lot of places, and I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of it. It’s on top of Superpin, a 5.10x in the Needles of South Dakota. Hulahooping is a bit of a sport in my family. We have a family reunion every 4th of July at our family’s place [...]
Posted in Climb on Feb 11th, 2008
In the fall of 1982 David Cole and I made multiple trips to Pok-O-Moonshine, trying to climb the route Fastest Gun. I kept getting to about 40 feet and encountering a parallel sided crack that I couldn’t protect that was quite hard. After two separate attempts where I got to the same spot and then [...]
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An A.D.D. tour of Art, Climbing, Skiing and other random activities.
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