Contributed Photos |
| Photo |
Caption |
Location |
Great Image |
Date |
| An overview of the area, showing Mary's Bust, its left buttress (The Devil's Backbone is the prominent arete bordering the deep gully on the left), Moonlight Rock (slender tower on upper left of left | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : Mary's Bust | | Oct 28, 2009 |
| Current routes on Mary's Bust, left buttress.See details in comment below. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : Mary's Bust | | Oct 28, 2009 |
| Nice exposure from the top of pitch 5. John Langston emerges into view after pulling the crux overhang. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : The Brown Palace (5.11a) | 1 person | Aug 5, 2009 |
| Bermuda John finishing the crux on pitch 3. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : The Brown Palace (5.11a) | | Aug 5, 2009 |
| John Langston follows the 3rd pitch. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : The Brown Palace (5.11a) | | Aug 5, 2009 |
| John Langston leading the crux pitch. This photo doesn't do justice to the fine position of the climb, but it's the best we could get. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : Sympathy for the Devil (5.12a) | | Aug 5, 2009 |
| Mary's Bust SE Face route locator (my ratings)1. Mary's Tricks 5.10d (around corner)2. Proud Mary 5.12a A03. Deceiver 5.9+ to 5.10+ (height dependent)4. The Brown Palace 5.11a5. Dynamite 5.1 | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : Mary's Bust | 1 person | Aug 4, 2009 |
| Mary's Bust - West Face Topo.Violet Blue 5.11c ***.There's Something About Mary 5.12a ***. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : There's Something About Mar... (5.12a) | | Jul 27, 2009 |
| Mark Ronca retreating from an early attempt -- he's even with the launching point belay ledge at the base of the wall. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : There's Something About Mar... (5.12a) | | Jul 13, 2009 |
| Is that Brett Fav...ruh following the 3rd pitch? He has neither a Packers nor Jets helmet on; must be the off-season. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : There's Something About Mar... (5.12a) | | Jul 13, 2009 |
| Devil's Backbone from the left side of Mary's Bust. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : The Devil's Backbone (5.11c) | | May 16, 2009 |
| Claire on East Chimney, Longs Peak | Bernard Gillett : cousins | | Apr 23, 2009 |
| Claire and Katie on top of Longs | Bernard Gillett : cousins | | Apr 23, 2009 |
| my kids and their cousins | Bernard Gillett : cousins | | Apr 22, 2009 |
| Bernard Gillett leading the 5th pitch. The crux is the next ten feet. | CO : Alpine Rock : ... : The Godfather (5.11a/b PG13) | | Mar 26, 2009 |
| John Gillett on the gorgeous knobs of the 4th pitch | CO : Alpine Rock : ... : The Godfather (5.11a/b PG13) | | Mar 26, 2009 |
| Mark Ronca top rope soloing at the 3rd pitch crux headwall the day we worked out the bolt placements. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : The Devil's Backbone (5.11c) | | Mar 23, 2009 |
| The main (roadside) face of Mary's Bust. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : Mary's Bust | 1 person | Mar 23, 2009 |
| Continuity, 5.10c ***, 7 bolts, fine rock. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : Continuity (5.10c) | | Jan 8, 2009 |
| Continuity Crag as seen from the pullout. It's the thin slice of rock on the left. | CO : Estes Park Valley : ... : Continuity Crag | | Jan 8, 2009 |
| Left Crack (we called it Butterfly Jam, 5.10), was done by 1984, as was Right Crack (that one might have been 1983). In this 1985 photo, I'm doing what we called Hercules Unchained, where both cracks | WI : Rib Mountain : ... : Butterfly Jam (V2) | | Oct 21, 2008 |
| Bernard Gillett on an early (likely first) ascent (1985?), though as shown in the photo, I used the left arete once at the top. Perhaps modern ascents avoid this. No bouldering pads back then, so we | WI : Rib Mountain : ... : Over the Top (V3-4) | | Oct 21, 2008 |
| Skippin' out of track practice at UW Madison to do Cheap Thrills (1985? '86?) | WI : Devil's Lake : ... : Cheap Thrills (5.12b/c) | | May 12, 2008 |
| The snowfield at the head of Keplinger's Couloir in October. We actually turned around here, 500 vertical feet from the summit, because I was unwilling to take my 9-yr old across this dangerous passa | CO : Alpine Rock : ... : The Ramp to Clark's Arrow t... (5.0 Easy Snow) | | Jul 28, 2007 |
| Katie on the second pitch of Skyscraper in July. Her shoe got stuck in a crack right out of the gate on this pitch, and she could not retrieve it, so she climbed the entire pitch in a sock (I had to | CO : Alpine Rock : ... : The Ramp to Clark's Arrow t... (5.0 Easy Snow) | 1 person | Jul 28, 2007 |
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