I recently went down to California for the dual purpose of retrieving Jade from the previously-posted summer in the Sierras, as well as hitting up Tuolomne for some classics. Time is always shorter than you’d hope, but we tried to make the best of it. Arriving mid-afternoon on Wednesday and miraculously finding an [...]
A Sierra Summer
WORK
Our meadows
PLACE
Yosemite Valley
South Lake Tahoe, our home
Lake Tahoe chillers on a day off.
Yosemite Falls
A big tree
CLIMB
V0 highball at the Buttermilks. Bishop, CA
Adam on an unclimbed boulder.
Bouldering at Lover’s Leap.
Atop Manure Pile Buttress, Yosemite.
View of Royal Arches Route (16 pitches, 5.10b/5.7 A0) from Glacier Point.
Looking up at the blank 10b slab and the A0 pendulum on [...]
Mt Hood, Tactical Retreat
Took a trip up Hood for a slog and an ice climb, but got turned down by consistent 40-60 mph winds and 10 feet of visibility. All white out! Check out the face-cicles:
At one point they joined to form and ice-thmus from hair to mustache.
Videos for Trackers NorthWest
Here follows a collection of web videos I produced during my Winter Term in the TrackersTEAMS Immersion Program at Trackers Northwest. Featuring soundtracks from the Lasercave music repository.
A Proposition:
We -the most capable, brilliant, and innovative of us- descend upon a carefully chosen, largely depopulated (< 100) town . . .
thereby taking over the voting apparatus of the town . . . thus gaining control of some useful resources and infrastructure that could then be moved in the direction of self-sustaining
communities; as well as [...]
Tactical Recon: Monkey Face
Jade and I had the pleasure of rather lovely weather for a trip to Smith Rock with aspirations for a Monkey Face Climb. We got to Smith later in the day on Sunday, so we cragged around on some pretty fun basalt columns in the lower gorge. Met some hilarious 19 yr old [...]
Full Power!
India will never give us what we hope for, and tends not to give us what we expect. But as soon as we give in, agree to love or hate it, it smacks us in the face with a stomach flu or sunset river dip.
Request: Pre-Publish Edit/Commentary
Title: Fall-Apart-Park novella
Date: October 25, 2009 5:00 PM
Category: novella
Tags:
FALL_APART_PARK_
BOOK 1
1.
The doors -monstrous- creak, crack, crunch, and moan: open.
Step over the threshold and accept this City; cast foot upon this portentous promenade, do come along this caustic causeway . . .
Through the doors . . . A gnarly cinema marquee [...]
On the Aesthetics of Kingship – A Photo Essay by Jonah
- Palace becomes museum. 35 rooms open to the public, eastern wings still house the living members of the Scindia dynasty, still influential, having weathered, like the Gwalior fort, the waxing and waning of several empires.
Sobering Numbers
13,000 – Approximate number of people who climb Mt. St. Helens each year
8,365 – feet the crater rim rises above sea level
52 – Age of climber Joseph Bohlig when he died after a cornice gave way during a casual photo at the crater rim
68 – Number of times Bohlig previously summited the mountain
Very experienced guy [...]