Peace, Contentment, and Tranquility while climbing

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NutAgain!

Trad climber

South Pasadena, CA

Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 4, 2014 - 01:55pm PT

Seamstress and survival's comments in another thread inspired this idea...

Post pictures that you associate with peaceful, content, tranquil moments whilst communing with nature, on the rocks, etc.

I have lots of images burned into my brain of special times like this, and usually the pictures don't do it justice. That's ok. This is about the pictures that trigger your special memories, not just the most beautiful eye-candy you have. Here are a few for me:

Chillin' with the Wynah after he hurt is leg in Black Velvet Canyon, but before we made it up a new route (or a least a new variation of a route we didn't know existed). Just a nice time shootin' the breeze, taking in the desert scenery:

Hanging out with le_bruce atop Bishop's Terrace after a rainy ascent of the hot wet crack. Feeling totally centered, relaxed, and present in a wonderful moment:

Lingering on the west side of Sugarloaf with my wife and friends after a good day of climbing:

A peaceful day with Em, punctuated with light cells of rain and snow coming down the canyon at Woodfords:

So many more moments, like the time belaying on Bongs Away Left, Reeds area at sunset, watching the spider silk parachutes catching the last golden light. Or the amazing pink glow off the rock at Glacier Apron at sunset. Or when I proposed to my wife on top of Half Dome with the summit all to ourselves during a golden pink swirling mist at sunset, after climbing Snake Dike. Seems like I enjoy sunsets! But the pics I shared here are ones I could quickly find pictures of.

Edit: One more of a sunrise, from atop Lower Brother, after a great adventure with le_bruce:

pyro

Big Wall climber

Calabasas

Jun 4, 2014 - 02:25pm PT

peaceful!

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Jun 4, 2014 - 02:27pm PT

I'll play. I took this one a few years ago on a glorious November day of new routing up on Zeke's Wall. Give me a huge dose of calm every time I look at it.

NutAgain!

Trad climber

South Pasadena, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2014 - 02:42pm PT

I've never seen a sunset reflected on a blanket of fog or clouds like that. Beautiful! Pyro, bringing the class, lass, and ass to the thread :) A few years (months? days?) from now that context will be lost. C'est la vie. Life is right here, right now.