Thursday, January 31, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
A Peak
at last Saturday's adventure.
A trip to Taggart Lake in Jackson, WY, with my large format camera, on our mountain approach skis. Only wish I had a picture of me shooting.
Oh, and you see all that snow? That's really a frozen lake. Which was incredibly fun to run around on, it be frozen and all.
A trip to Taggart Lake in Jackson, WY, with my large format camera, on our mountain approach skis. Only wish I had a picture of me shooting.
Oh, and you see all that snow? That's really a frozen lake. Which was incredibly fun to run around on, it be frozen and all.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Stoke&Dance Music + Photo
2010 Trip to California to visit family
Jose Gonzales- Heartbeats
O'Death- Bugs
This Video
Mumford and Sons- Below My Feet
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros- 40 Day Dream
The Knife- Heartbeats
Matt and Kim- Let's Go
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Lulls
In the summer it seems as if there are never lulls. You can head out after work ends at five and climb or bike and on slow Sundays you can pedal through the duck ponds and nature preserve with your dog alongside you. You can walk to church and road bike on your off days.
In the winter you're either flying on a snomobile or hitting a jump on your board. It's too cold and icy to step outside for evening strolls and Maycee becomes a little bit of a tyrant when she's bored. What's left on your off days, as you've already witnessed on my last post, is dreaming of summer sports and not having your nose boogies freeze when you walk to class.
Which brings me to this: Pointless. Pointless is a crag my dear friends Heather and Dean started bolting a few years back. I'm even proud to say I helped a little bit in the process and by the end of summer last year my lead fears had subsided, leaving goals to be achieved...
A little bit about the crag(all in the words of Dean, and more info found here):
Located in the Wolf Flats Recreation area along the South Fork of the Snake River, Pointless is a short rim-rock basalt crag just a few miles up river from Heise Hot Springs. This zone is best thought of as a locals crag. On a more positive note, the Pointless Crag offers a very scenic location for climbing with many easy to moderate routes and closely spaced bolts.
Expect dirty, flakey rock in places. Loose hand and foot holds will be a common theme until the routes see a lot of traffic. If you experience dirty holds or loose stone please take a few extra minutes to brush away dirt and/or remove loose rock. In a safe manner of course! Any help to clean up these routes would be very appreciated.
From left to right:
Black Betty 5.12a- 6 bolts. Steep and powerful climbing up a black bulge with a cool arete finish. Jugs, crimps, pockets. A MUST do! HARD. Just left of where the west trail reaches the base of the cliff.
Approx 50 yards
Head on a Silver Platypus 5.10a- 6 bolts to lower off anchors. Overhanging jugs to a fun face above. Climb the right side of a horizontal scoop for the first 3 bolts, then up a fun outside corner/face. Don't cheat the crux by going far left after clipping the 3rd bolt. Hint: try moving slightly right after the 3rd bolt.
4 Alarm Fire 5.10b- Technical, pumpy and slightly overhanging. Start right and traverse up and left under the small roof to the first bolt. Don't screw up clipping the second bolt. 4 generously spaced bolts to lower off anchors. Really good climbing!
Hoppe Hill 5.10c- 5 bolts to lower off anchors. A deceptive and hard to read overhanging pumpy technical experience.
Hustle and Flow 5.12d- 6 bolts to lower off anchors. Steep and Powerful! Requires equal amounts of brain and brawn!
Goat Meal 5.11a- 6 bolts. Overhanging with big moves and some big holds to a powerful lip. Lower off anchors. It will leave a smile on your face.. a big smile!
Hungry Eyes 5.8- Starts on the left side of a roof like arch. 8 bolts to lower off anchors. A long rambling journey on the tallest part of the cliff. Clipping the anchors might be the crux for shorter people.
Stingray 5.10c- 10 bolts to lower off anchors. Starts on the right side of roof-like arch. Gently overhanging with a sting in the tail finish! An Odyssey of enjoyment! Tallest route just before turning the corner when following the trail along the base of the wall .
Approx 20 yards
Orbit 5.10d- 8 bolts to lower off anchors. Difficult third clip. Technical crux to a rest at bolt 5 followed by a pumping juggy finish or flight time! A little dirty between the 5th and 6th bolts. CLASSIC!! The best and pumpiest 5.10d... in the world... of Pointless
Aprrox 30 yards
Rock-in My Sports Bra 5.9- if you follow the bolt line. 5.8 if you use the nerd crack left of the 3rd bolt! The bolts are close together, just follow the bolt line...
The Disappearing Hat Trick 5.9+- Stick clip the first bolt. Cool crack feature mid route. Popular! Crack 5.8 - first bolt of Black Bear then left and into a nice inside corner hand crack. Trad gear. Black Bear 5.12c - Amazing arete climb on black bullet stone. Technical and thin crux. 5 bolts to anchors.
What's the Point 5.11b- funky start. Difficult second clip. Tricky overhang. Cool crack finish. SO, SO, GOOD!
11 O' Clock 5.10a- strait up fun! Look for the 11 O' Clock pocket if you get stumped! 5 bolts to anchors
Team Trailer 5.8- super fun inside corner climb! Dirty start but well worth it once above the second bolt! Stellar experience...
The Bicycle Thief 5.10a- DO IT! 5 bolts to lower off anchors. Be careful between the first and second bolt. Pumpy column finish!
Alien Pod 5.8- cool pod feature. Short and easy. 4 bolts. Good first lead climb.
1. Dean belaying Heather 2. Outlook from the top of the cliff 3. Me climbing Bicycle Thief
In the winter you're either flying on a snomobile or hitting a jump on your board. It's too cold and icy to step outside for evening strolls and Maycee becomes a little bit of a tyrant when she's bored. What's left on your off days, as you've already witnessed on my last post, is dreaming of summer sports and not having your nose boogies freeze when you walk to class.
Which brings me to this: Pointless. Pointless is a crag my dear friends Heather and Dean started bolting a few years back. I'm even proud to say I helped a little bit in the process and by the end of summer last year my lead fears had subsided, leaving goals to be achieved...
Located in the Wolf Flats Recreation area along the South Fork of the Snake River, Pointless is a short rim-rock basalt crag just a few miles up river from Heise Hot Springs. This zone is best thought of as a locals crag. On a more positive note, the Pointless Crag offers a very scenic location for climbing with many easy to moderate routes and closely spaced bolts.
Expect dirty, flakey rock in places. Loose hand and foot holds will be a common theme until the routes see a lot of traffic. If you experience dirty holds or loose stone please take a few extra minutes to brush away dirt and/or remove loose rock. In a safe manner of course! Any help to clean up these routes would be very appreciated.
Black Betty 5.12a- 6 bolts. Steep and powerful climbing up a black bulge with a cool arete finish. Jugs, crimps, pockets. A MUST do! HARD. Just left of where the west trail reaches the base of the cliff.
Approx 50 yards
Head on a Silver Platypus 5.10a- 6 bolts to lower off anchors. Overhanging jugs to a fun face above. Climb the right side of a horizontal scoop for the first 3 bolts, then up a fun outside corner/face. Don't cheat the crux by going far left after clipping the 3rd bolt. Hint: try moving slightly right after the 3rd bolt.
4 Alarm Fire 5.10b- Technical, pumpy and slightly overhanging. Start right and traverse up and left under the small roof to the first bolt. Don't screw up clipping the second bolt. 4 generously spaced bolts to lower off anchors. Really good climbing!
Hoppe Hill 5.10c- 5 bolts to lower off anchors. A deceptive and hard to read overhanging pumpy technical experience.
Hustle and Flow 5.12d- 6 bolts to lower off anchors. Steep and Powerful! Requires equal amounts of brain and brawn!
Goat Meal 5.11a- 6 bolts. Overhanging with big moves and some big holds to a powerful lip. Lower off anchors. It will leave a smile on your face.. a big smile!
Hungry Eyes 5.8- Starts on the left side of a roof like arch. 8 bolts to lower off anchors. A long rambling journey on the tallest part of the cliff. Clipping the anchors might be the crux for shorter people.
Stingray 5.10c- 10 bolts to lower off anchors. Starts on the right side of roof-like arch. Gently overhanging with a sting in the tail finish! An Odyssey of enjoyment! Tallest route just before turning the corner when following the trail along the base of the wall .
Approx 20 yards
Orbit 5.10d- 8 bolts to lower off anchors. Difficult third clip. Technical crux to a rest at bolt 5 followed by a pumping juggy finish or flight time! A little dirty between the 5th and 6th bolts. CLASSIC!! The best and pumpiest 5.10d... in the world... of Pointless
Aprrox 30 yards
Rock-in My Sports Bra 5.9- if you follow the bolt line. 5.8 if you use the nerd crack left of the 3rd bolt! The bolts are close together, just follow the bolt line...
The Disappearing Hat Trick 5.9+- Stick clip the first bolt. Cool crack feature mid route. Popular! Crack 5.8 - first bolt of Black Bear then left and into a nice inside corner hand crack. Trad gear. Black Bear 5.12c - Amazing arete climb on black bullet stone. Technical and thin crux. 5 bolts to anchors.
What's the Point 5.11b- funky start. Difficult second clip. Tricky overhang. Cool crack finish. SO, SO, GOOD!
11 O' Clock 5.10a- strait up fun! Look for the 11 O' Clock pocket if you get stumped! 5 bolts to anchors
Team Trailer 5.8- super fun inside corner climb! Dirty start but well worth it once above the second bolt! Stellar experience...
The Bicycle Thief 5.10a- DO IT! 5 bolts to lower off anchors. Be careful between the first and second bolt. Pumpy column finish!
Alien Pod 5.8- cool pod feature. Short and easy. 4 bolts. Good first lead climb.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Snomoshredding: Green Canyon
Charly, friends, and I woke up and headed out to Green Canyon. A couple of jumps were built and hit. A little one for Kelsey and I and bigger ones for the big guys. Then there's the tunnel slide. I don't have photos of it...maybe someone else does? I'll have to upload the video they took later. One phenomenally long slippery slide that went through two tunnels- we dug one through the first jump we made and the second through the cornice- and went down them on top of our backcountry shovels.
