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Long ago and far away - some Canadian ice pics from February and April 2012 - Click for details
 Long ago and far away - some Canadian ice pics from February and April 2012
Well, not really too long ago nor really that far away.... In January of this year, when I was already on the road taking some pics and doing a bit of ice climbing ( ...

by BMcC
6,329 Jan 15, 2014 31
The Nose of El Capitan First Ascent Stories from Wayne Merry
by Chris McNamara
6,319 Aug 13, 2013 13
Out and About in the Ruth Gorge - Click for details
 Out and About in the Ruth Gorge
Out and About in the Ruth Gorge In June of 2009, Lauren and I flew into the Ruth Gorge for some alpine schralping. Lured by the Supertopo guidebook and the tantal...

by Nate Furman
6,317 Nov 29, 2011 29
Yosemite Valley Pictorial - Winter Eye Candy - Click for details
 Yosemite Valley Pictorial - Winter Eye Candy
I spent 5 days in Yosemite with 150 8th graders at Yos Institute during the 3rd week of December. We arrived a day after a week of snow storms filled the Valley, but was greet...

by Slater
6,305 Oct 31, 2011 11
Devil's Tower, The Extended Weissner, 5.8, solo - Click for details
 Devil's Tower, The Extended Weissner, 5.8, solo
The Weissner route climbed in 1937 by Fritz Weissner, William House and Lawerence Coveny was the first modern climb on the tower. The previous ascents had been by the Riple...

by Jaybro
6,303 Jan 19, 2016 60
Don't Drink the Punch - Click for details
 Don't Drink the Punch
The Devil's Punchbowl. Home to some of my earliest climbing memories. So after regaling my other half with tales of kitty litter slab, rusted hardware, tenuous gea...

by justthemaid
6,301 Apr 20, 2015 64
The Quickest Way From 60 Lake Basin to Bishop..... The Danger That Lurks Out There - Click for details
 The Quickest Way From 60 Lake Basin to Bishop..... The Danger That Lurks Out There
my sweetie and I left onion valley intending to through-mountaineer clear to twin lakes in northern yosemite. during our first week we hoped to set up a base camp ...

by insatiable
6,291 Oct 11, 2011 62
2012_06 Arroyo Seco River Adventure - Hiking/Scrambling/Swimming with Kids - Click for details
 2012_06 Arroyo Seco River Adventure - Hiking/Scrambling/Swimming with Kids
Any good car camping trip in our family must include a substantial serving of Chicken Apple Sausages cooked over the campfire: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-niCqE_JN6G4...

by nutjob
6,286 May 22, 2016 16
If You're Into That Sorta Thing- The Needles - Click for details
 If You're Into That Sorta Thing- The Needles
Rock climbing is a weird activity. Yes it is. Don't you sass me boy- I know the truth. So many little moments go by that fan fire on the stoke, but for most those very sa...

by snowhazed
6,284 Jul 24, 2014 57
Zion Climbing TR - Touchstone Wall - Click for details
 Zion Climbing TR - Touchstone Wall
So I wrangled up a couple days off around the first weekend in March and made plans to go to Zion and get my first big wall under my belt. I had been trying to get a climbing ...

by crossman04
6,281 Jul 08, 2010 6
Tollhouse Rock: January Satisfaction. - Click for details
 Tollhouse Rock: January Satisfaction.
You know, sometimes eating at your family's favorite middle priced local restaurant can be more satisfying than eating out at the most expensive, in-vogue restaurant where the...

by Slater
6,278 Oct 10, 2016 73
Surgeon General or Tom's Tooth - Click for details
 Surgeon General or Tom's Tooth
"Is this the route on which Ammon’s head was bleeding mixed with some white ooze?" I heard the question, each time I said that I want to climb Surgeon General. “Yes, t...

by Regan
6,274 Feb 08, 2015 42
Ho Chi Minh Trail: Your Substitute RNWF Experience Awaits - Click for details
 Ho Chi Minh Trail: Your Substitute RNWF Experience Awaits
A ripped climber is standing in the Curry parking lot. Perhaps in the same spot you yourself have stood, reader. She may have been born in Charleston, Puebla, Liverpool, ...

by le_bruce
6,265 Feb 22, 2019 43
East Buttress of El Capitan TR - Click for details
 East Buttress of El Capitan TR
Trip Report: El Capitan, East Buttress 5.10b Gary Carpenter & Ed Hartouni June 10, 2007 I suggested this climb as a test to see just how in shape we were... and I did...

by Ed Hartouni
6,258 Nov 08, 2014 41
Moby Dick, and/or the Whale (book & trip report: Mt. Whitney plus Whitney Portal)
by Trad
6,252 Sep 22, 2013 12
Solo on the Prow - Click for details
 Solo on the Prow
I’d been itching to knock off another big (ok, medium) wall since I soloed the West Face of Leaning Tower back in March. I spent two nights on the wall, and topped out...

by The Hoosier
6,250 Feb 23, 2016 34
North Face, Mt Whitney-Hammerless solo FA? 1971 - Click for details
 North Face, Mt Whitney-Hammerless solo FA? 1971
In September, 1971, I soloed Mt Whitney via an excellent route involving a couple of pitches of perfect 5.8 straight-in hand cracks on a nearly vertical section of the Nort...

by Keith Leaman
6,209 May 11, 2018 38
Liberty Cap Beating #1: Liberty Ridge - Click for details
 Liberty Cap Beating #1: Liberty Ridge
Mt Rainier - Liberty Ridge (III-IV, 55 degree snow/ice, AI2/WI2) July 15-18, 2011 This July I climbed Liberty Ridge on Mt Rainier with Eric, a l...

by PellucidWombat
6,208 Aug 24, 2011 26
Castle Crags TR - Click for details
 Castle Crags TR
Spent the weekend with Frank Baker and Bill McConachie at Castle Crags State Park. Did Cosmic Wall on Mt Hubris (5.6) on Saturday. This route, which rivals SE Buttres...

by tuolumne_tradster
6,203 Nov 29, 2009 47
 TR: A quick and bad one... but it's free (New Jack City)
Really quick and really bad TR.... we went to New Jack City for the day. The usual crew, me, Will and Sooze. There may be a 50/50 ratio of broken glass to sand at the base o...

by Russ Walling
6,198 Feb 10, 2018 85
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