Contributed Photos

P5 looks intimidating for "5.9+". Photo courtesy of Mike Cowper.

International : Canada : ... : Borderline (5.10d)

Aug 20, 2012

Nearing the top of pitch 3. Photo courtesy of Mike Cowper.

International : Canada : ... : Borderline (5.10d)

Aug 20, 2012

Pitch 2 (the 11c version). Photo courtesy of Mike Cowper.

International : Canada : ... : Borderline (5.10d)

Aug 20, 2012

Jon leading on the first ascent, 2/12/2012

WA : Index Town Walls : ... : An Act of Strange Boar (5.11a)

Mar 26, 2012

Baby Tapir (leftmost finger crack through small roof), Strange Boar (center dihedral), and Rice Krispies (flake just right of the Boar)

WA : Index Town Walls : ... : Baby Tapir (5.11a)

Mar 26, 2012

Pitch 2, on a sunny December day.

WA : Index Town Walls : ... : House of the 7th Bobcat (5.11d)

Mar 26, 2012

The short starting handcrack

WA : Index Town Walls : ... : House of the 7th Bobcat (5.11d)

Mar 26, 2012

Pitches 1 & 2, from the base

WA : Index Town Walls : ... : House of the 7th Bobcat (5.11d)

Mar 26, 2012

Jon giving Bowling a much-needed makeover, November 2011. The bottom of the route was overgrown but should be very clean for the 2012 season.

WA : Index Town Walls : ... : Bowling to Biscuits (5.10d)

Nov 21, 2011

2nd pitch of Bobcat, from base. Savor them chickenheads. Bobcat Cringe is the thin splitter at the junction between light and dark, right of the bushy dihedral.

WA : Index Town Walls : ... : Bobcat Cringe (5.12b)

Nov 21, 2011

At the anchors after a long dogged battle

KY : Red River Gorge : ... : Continental (5.12a)

Nov 18, 2011

Late afternoon shot of the route. Crux is high on the route, getting established on the flake.

KY : Red River Gorge : ... : Dave the Dude (5.11d)

Nov 17, 2011

Iron oxide holds at the base of the climb

KY : Red River Gorge : ... : Comment

Nov 17, 2011

The shadowy broken crack cutting into the L edge of this photo is Suffering Bagpipes. The dihedral is Sacrifice (10c, **, listed in Darryl Cramer's Sky Valley Rock). The bolted arete to the R is Pig

WA : Zeke's Wall : Suffering Bagpipes (5.10c)

Sep 22, 2009

The bomb bay. Bolted line partially visible to the R is 5.12.

WA : Zeke's Wall : Cheeky Monkey (5.10d)

Sep 20, 2009

Drilling on pitch 5.

WA : Zeke's Wall : Mortal Coil (5.12a)

Sep 20, 2009

Erik Neumann on one of many work outings. The crux undercling roof just above him starts with perfect fingerlocks and terrible feet, and ends with tips and marginal feet. Save an orange TCU to place

WA : Zeke's Wall : Mortal Coil (5.12a)

Sep 20, 2009

The initial slab pitch

WA : Zeke's Wall : Mortal Coil (5.12a)

Sep 20, 2009

Looking back at the start of p5, on a solo cleaning day a couple years before the FFA.

WA : Zeke's Wall : Mortal Coil (5.12a)

Sep 19, 2009

Fixed lines during the cleaning and rehearsal phase. The route follows the doubled ropes, taking a sharp left above the p4 roof.

WA : Zeke's Wall : Mortal Coil (5.12a)

Sep 19, 2009

View of the wall from low in the clear cut. The prominent sunny buttress near the center is home to several outstanding routes, including Squeaky (12b), Hanna Deanna (11d), and Flow (11a).

WA : Zeke's Wall

Sep 19, 2009

View from the chimney on P5, taken while cleaning the route in preparation for the FA.

WA : Zeke's Wall : Flow (5.11a)

Sep 19, 2009

Me, navigating the first pitch a week or two after Erik's FFA. I think I bathed later that day. The climb has cleaned up a bit as well.

WA : Zeke's Wall : Flow (5.11a)

Sep 19, 2009

Erik Neumann on the FFA of the crux first pitch, several years before the first complete ascent. Photo by David Harris. The initial pitches were a joint project with myself, David, Erik, and Mari Ak

WA : Zeke's Wall : Flow (5.11a)

Sep 19, 2009

Foreshortened view of the first 2 pitches of Flow. Upper pitches jog R into a dihedral near the waterfall. Some drowning risk on pitch 3 during spring runoff.

WA : Zeke's Wall : Flow (5.11a)

Sep 19, 2009