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Dec 21, 2025 Needles Of Rush… > Mt Rushmore National… When you know it's time for a new dandruff shampoo. ● Choss View Comment
Dec 15, 2025 Interior Alaska… > Denali NP > Ruth Gorge > Moose's Tooth Ham & Eggs WI4 M4 Steep Snow ● "If we had some ham we could have ham and eggs if we had some eggs." View Comment
Mar 20, 2025 Denver South > Castlewood Cany… > Gargoyle Wall Scenic Solitude (originally: Just Another Sucking Chest Wound) 5.12- ● Scenic Solitude sounds like the title of some weak ass poem I wrote in 8th grade. View Comment
Feb 2, 2024 San Bernardino… > N Slope > Juniper Flats Area > Super Splitter Wall Right Line 5.12 ● I aided this in 1994. w/ Rich Hoover on belay. View Comment
Jan 13, 2024 Southern Nevada > Red Rocks Watch out for ringtails at Red Rocks!! ● I've heard of people seeing ringtails way up on Dinner Ledge on Washingtons Column. View Comment
May 23, 2023 Yosemite NP 1973 .. Some weird bloke kept coming to the Brit Campsite .. I think he was after our corn flakes ? Thats my VW in the background .. Driven from NH with H. Barber ● He wasn't after the Corn Flakes, mate. View Comment
Jun 25, 2022 CO Ice & Mixed > Indian Peaks &… > Arapahoe Peaks > Skywalker Couloir (Steep Snow) Aaron Cloud drops into the Princess Leia finish. Photo by Devan Johnson. ● Tele til your smelly. View Comment
Aug 27, 2021 Central Idaho > Sawtooth Range > Elephant's Perch > Myopia (5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c) Pitch 2: 5.10- finger crack on left, 5.9 chimney on right. ● I was able to reach over to the left and snag the thin crack after shimmying up the right chimney a ways. S… View Comment
Aug 27, 2021 Central Idaho > Sawtooth Range > Elephant's Perch Myopia 5.11b ● I'm pretty sure that Myopia is also a Jeff Gruenberg/Jack Mileski route like DG. View Comment
Aug 21, 2020 ZZZ Area for Ho… > Nick Wilder’s T… > test sub area t… > test route (5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b V17 9A WI3- M2- A0 Steep Snow R) the test photo ● Decent grouping but you might heeling the trigger. View Comment
Apr 18, 2020 Europe > Italy > Dolomites > Brenta Group > campanile basso Via Normale 5.8- PG13 ● FA: Otto Ampferer and Karl Berger, 1899. On the final pitch they traversed around to the north face to gain… View Comment
Mar 3, 2020 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Crescent Crack Buttress Crescent Crack 5.7 ● Hah! Reading all these comments brings me back. This was my "welcome to Little Cottonwood" route. I started… View Comment
Nov 18, 2019 Southeast Utah > Potash Rd > Wall Street matt freesoloing flakes of wrath ● lol look at this fkn spaghetti head showing off for all the ladies View Comment
Jun 17, 2019 Southeast Utah > Island In The Sky > Bird's View Butte / C… Third pitch of Word to the Bird. March 2008 ● Pg. 61 of High On Moab guidebook by Karl Kelley View Comment
Dec 22, 2018 Southeast Utah > River Rd > Northside Routes Trail of The Navajo 5.11 ● There used to be an old binder of topos in Pagan that had a hand drawn topo for this route. It was called T… View Comment
Nov 30, 2018 Southern Nevada > … > Calico Basin > Red Spring > Riding Hood Wall > Over the Hill to Gran… (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) John employs a headjam in order to free his hands maybe for a quick pee? ● Looks like the final scene from Blair Witch Project. View Comment
Mar 28, 2018 Southeast Utah > Potash Rd > Wall Street South Skinwalker 5.11 ● Thank you for the correction, Spencer. Looks like the description has been updated. I was never good at giv… View Comment
Dec 20, 2016 Southeast Utah > Island In The Sky > Trad Wall AKA Green R… A Circle of Quiet 5.11b/c ● FA Bret Ruckman and Marco Cornacchione, FFA Bret and Stuart Ruckman (as per Bjornstadt guide) View Comment
Sep 14, 2016 Southeast Utah > Island In The Sky > Bird's View But… > Rim Routes These Rim Routes are located on this west facing wall... ● The green line marking Word To The Bird is correct except that the last pitch traverses past the first dihe… View Comment
May 24, 2016 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Crescent Crack… > Mexican Crack (5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a) Mexican crack ● He's using a stopper because in this section the crack opens up on the inside causing cams to umbrella… View Comment
May 17, 2016 S Central Utah > Henry Mountains > Horn "Super Sharp Crack of the Henrys" 1994 or so blue - 5.10 sport arete green - "Super Sharp Crack" white blob - person on SSC ● 10a first pitch. View Comment
Jan 27, 2015 Northern Arizona > Navajolands > Monument Valley > Totem Pole (5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b A2) Totem Pole. Classic view. ● New desktop background! View Comment
Sep 30, 2014 High Desert > … > New Jack City > Box Canyon East > Raven Rocks > Raven Rocks N Face "P… " Hey buddy, you can't sleep here". ● "Whats really funny is I'm on this bank job all the way in Secaucus. I'm in the middle of the fuckin' weeds… View Comment
Aug 21, 2014 Northeast Utah > Uinta Mountains The Recess ● I remember the initial topo that JW drew up for the routes at the Recess all had British E-ratings. I love… View Comment
Apr 26, 2014 Southeast Utah > Indian Creek Unknown crack at the Creek. ● This is either Ham On Rye or Rudy's Crack, I can't remember. There is a roof (fists) above the climber wher… View Comment
Jan 3, 2013 S Central Utah > Henry Mountains > Horn "Super Sharp Crack of the Henrys" 1994 or so blue - 5.10 sport arete green - "Super Sharp Crack" white blob - person on SSC ● I think the "sharp crack" is called Burning Taco? View Comment
Aug 6, 2012 Southeast Utah > Castle Valley > Castleton Tower castleton tower in the lower left. ● thanks ben. get my rights and lefts mixed up sometimes. thanks too, slim. View Comment
Jul 2, 2012 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Lone Peak Cirque > Summit Wall Wonderwall 5.9 A3 ● it appears that nik berry freed this route at 5.13c R. source nikberry.blogspot.com/2011/… View Comment
Jun 25, 2012 Southeast Utah > Potash Rd > Wall Street South Skinwalker 5.11 ● thanks for the correction, steven. i also think that this route is not as hard as the 11c rating implies. s… View Comment
Jan 30, 2012 Southeast Utah > River Rd Lighthouse Tower ● Lighthouses rule. youtube.com/watch?feature=p… View Comment
Dec 19, 2011 Southeast Utah > La Sal Mountains > Mill Creek > Other Mill Creek Areas Anybody know anything about these? Sorry for the piss poor photo, no bolts but been climbd The left is easy ten hands on the upper, the right s just plain fun, the arete? theres some redick stuff across and further up canyon. Brumly ● Left handcrack is unnamed, I think. The thin right crack is an old Linus Platt toprope that was later lead… View Comment
Nov 5, 2009 Southeast Utah > Little Valley A mom and her baby near Roberts Rift in Little Valley ● very cool View Comment
Dec 16, 2008 Southeast Utah > Indian Creek > Optimator Ram Implosion Wing 5.12 ● letmegooglethatforyou.com/?… View Comment
Nov 16, 2008 Southeast Utah > Castle Valley > Rectory > Fine Jade (5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c) You better hope these guys flying the lawn mower engine machines aren't above your head while you're climbing. They are extremely annoying. ● the flying lawnmower guy died. i think his name was terry and he crashed his flying lawnmower a couple year… View Comment
Nov 5, 2008 Southeast Utah > Potash Rd > Wall Street Astro Lad 5.11a ● Staying in the corner is supposedly harder (11+) but I think it's less intimidating than breaking out left.… View Comment
Sep 2, 2008 Ryan Fischer > climbing chris dawson on sinestra a scary 11 at indian creek ● ahhh, the switch. View Comment

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