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| The party on Mescalito is barely visible on this picture. No zoom lens on my camera, sorry boys! |
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| Sunset atop the nipple. Grand. |
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| A "hold." If you ask me, I'd prefer to just grab the bolt! |
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| Cruising up pitch 2 |
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| Getting off the ground. |
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| Jugging up the lines for the haul. Note the freshly seam-sealed Fish porta-fly in the foreground. Photo credit: Mark Hudon |
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| Sunset on the way to P8. |
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| The nipple. With the gear I had left from shortfixing that one was interesting |
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| Jack is still going strong at 65 on Zodiac, El Capitan |
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| Looking up at the Zodiac from the base. This is the typical water flow in May when the first 3 pitches are usually soaked except between 10am-6pm when the wind moves the water east. The water dries up sometime in June. |
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| A climber jumaring the Nipple Pitch, pitch 10 of the Zodiac. This pitch is so steep that the climber is almost ten feet away from the wall. |
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| A climber at the twelfth belay on Zodiac using an umbrella for shade (great idea!). |
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| A steep and clean line. |
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| Terry defying the brake-hand rule while rapping |
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| Direct start on Zodiac |
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| Sean Courage coiling a rope on the summit of the Zodiac, El Capitan. The route finishes just a few feet behind him. From the edge, it is 1600 feet straight down to the base. |
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| Miles Smart leading the crux of the Nipple Pitch on El Capitan's Zodiac route. This section, if climbed hammerless, requires multiple inverted cam hook placements in a row. These placements are terrifying but secure. |
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| Belay 4 with Horsetail Fall behind (spring conditions). |
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| Canadian soloist at the top of the first pitch |
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| Brett at portaledge bivy on Zodiac, El Capitan |
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| A climber leading the twelfth pitch with the Devil's Brow (just out of the picture) on the Zodiac. |
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| Leading the Nimple pitch on Zodiac. |
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