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6 days ago High Sierra > 08 - Bishop Pass & Ev… Trapezoid Peak ● As of August 31, 2026, there is a large rockfall zone high on the east face directly above Shield of Dreams… View Comment
Aug 26, 2026 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Upper E Face > Beaver (5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a) An overlay of The Beaver route. ● Yep! A fun up and over of Long's! View Comment
Aug 24, 2026 W Desert > House Range > Notch Peak > Upper N Face Book of Saturday 5.11a R ● We rapped with a single 80 - 12 rappels from pitch anchors with the exception being we came up 20 feet shor… View Comment
Aug 6, 2026 Lake Tahoe > … 1 > Main Formation > Main Wall > Main Wall > Traveler Buttress (5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a) Pitch 3 Traveler Buttress ● Thanks. Corrected! View Comment
Jul 28, 2026 Central-E Casca… > Stuart-Enchantm… > Mt Stuart > Direct N Ridge (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) Route Overlay Gendarme. ● Thanks drew for the corrected beta. View Comment
Jul 23, 2026 Yosemite NP > Tuolumne Meadows > Lembert Dome > Northwest Face > Northwest Books (5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b) Route Overlay for Northwest Books and DirectNorthwest Face. ● You're welcome! View Comment
Jul 7, 2026 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Big Cottonwood… > JHCOB Wall > Outside Corner (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Route Overlay Crescendo and Outside Corner. ● Thanks Scott! View Comment
Dec 21, 2025 Southwest Utah > Zion NP > Watchman > Silmaril (5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a) Our approach track. Colored by elevation. ● connect.garmin.com/modern/a… View Comment
Oct 22, 2025 Southeast Utah > Grand County > Potash Rd > Wall Street > Bad Moki Roof (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) Looking up from belay. The route that busts out right under the roof is a 12d called Horizontal Mambo. ● nice lead! View Comment
Jul 3, 2025 Southern Arizona > Cochise Stronghold > E Stronghold > Wasteland > Teenage Wasteland (5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b) First rap bolts on summit. Five single-rope rappels plus scrambling get you down. ● "Metolius Rap Hangers are large, rounded bolt hangers designed so you can thread your rope directly through… View Comment
May 26, 2025 Southeast Utah > Grand County > Castle Valley > Sister Superior Group Black Sabbath 5.11 ● Trundled a death block at the base of Pitch 2 on May 26, 2025. Video of trundle here: youtu.be/aASVEoVuYV4 View Comment
Apr 2, 2025 Estes Park Valley > Lumpy Ridge > Sundance Buttress Route overlays for some routes on Sundance Buttress. ● If you plan on climbing at Lumpy often, I would get one or both of the following: - Rocky Mountain Natio… View Comment
Jan 26, 2025 Southeast Utah > San Juan County > Indian Creek > Supercrack Butt… > Incredible Hand Crack (5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b) Cam lobe scars etched into the soft sandstone. These scars occurred right before the crux roof section, so they are probably from falls jamming the cam lobes into the rock. There a couple of deep ones from some pretty big whippers (or heavy climbers)! ● Good point. The Incredible Hand Crack 5.8 C1. View Comment
Nov 5, 2024 Yosemite NP > Yosemite Valley > Valley S Side > F. Liberty Cap Scarface (Free) 5.12 ● Awesome adventure climb with lots of quality and challening well-protected climbing. The giant flake leadin… View Comment
Aug 19, 2024 Alpine Rock > Indian Peaks > Indian Peaks Tr… > LA Freeway (Long's to… (Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c) A map of LA Freeway. ● Full res: drive.google.com/file/d/1gU…. View Comment
Aug 4, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Chasm View Wall > Red Wall (5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b) Looking up pitch 4. The crux roof looms above. The death block looms even closer (it is possible to set the belay above the block, as I did on a future ascent). ● Belay above the death block: mountainproject.com/assets/…. View Comment
Aug 4, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Chasm View Wall > Red Wall (5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b) Looking down from the belay at the top of pitch 3. This is a higher belay option above the death block. ● Belay below death block: mountainproject.com/assets/…. View Comment
Jul 30, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Glacier Gorge > Spearhead > Sykes' Sickle (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) A photo route overlay Sykes' Sickle and The Barb. ● I like both routes equally. They are quite different from each other, and I consider them similar in diffic… View Comment
Jul 23, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Glacier Gorge > Pagoda Mountain > W Ridge Bypass (Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c) Pagoda West Ridge Bypass. ● And also thanks for posting this route on MP. I had wished for a good way to traverse from Chiefshead to Lo… View Comment
Jul 22, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Glacier Gorge > Pagoda Mountain > W Ridge Bypass (Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c) Pagoda West Ridge Bypass. ● Martin: thanks for your reply. Based on the photos being correct, I do still believe these photos represent… View Comment
Jul 20, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Glacier Gorge > Pagoda Mountain > W Ridge Bypass (Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c) Pagoda West Ridge Bypass. ● Martin, thanks for the reply. Does Michael Butts' photo on MP ( mountainproject.com/assets/…) and th… View Comment
Jul 18, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Saber > Southeast Corner (5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b) A photo route overlay of Saber SE Corner, Kor Route, and SW Corner. ● Thanks! View Comment
Jul 11, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Glacier Gorge > Pagoda Mountain > W Ridge Bypass (Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c) Pagoda West Ridge Bypass. ● The "easy 5th Class corner" is actually directly below the words "5th Class", so the route line shown goes… View Comment
Jan 24, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Diamond > D1 (5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a) A photo route overlay for D1. ● Yes, we did. The first time (Aug. 2019) we stopped at top of pitch 4 and rapped. As I recall, I think it wa… View Comment
Dec 26, 2023 Southern Arizona > Cochise Stronghold > W Stronghold > Sheepshead Area… > Muttonhead Have You Seen It? 5.10 ● There are 16 bolts on Pitch 1 (not 12 as in the guidebook we had). View Comment
Dec 25, 2023 Southern Arizona > Cochise Stronghold > W Stronghold > Sheepshead Area… > Muttonhead Have You Seen It? 5.10 ● You can easily traverse left 15 feet from the top of Pitch 2 to the top anchor of Tour Buses Welcome and ra… View Comment
Jul 30, 2023 Estes Park Valley > Lumpy Ridge > Bookmark Penis Chimney 5.9 ● If you have one, a #7 protects much of the chimney. View Comment
Jul 16, 2023 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Notchtop Rap 1 of 4 down Instant Clarification's anchors. There is a higher rap from near the top of Notch Spire that you can use instead, but this is the one to use if you come in from the true summit. ● Rap 1 of 4 down Instant Clarification anchors. There is a higher rap from near the top of Notch Spire that… View Comment
May 12, 2023 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Glacier Gorge > Spearhead > Kingfisher (5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a PG13) Hand-drilled bolted anchors at the top of every pitch, equipped for rappel with a single 70m rope (until final rappel). ● You can make the final rappel with a single 70 under two scenarios: (1) the snow is high enough at the base… View Comment
May 11, 2023 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Keyboard of the Winds Routes in Keyboard of the Winds. ● Just uploaded updated version with Wind Chill Tower. View Comment
Oct 22, 2022 S Platte > Devil's Head > Sin City Revelation Route 5.11a/b ● Bolt count: P1: 5 bolts. P2: 11 bolts. P3: 12 bolts. P4: 11 bolts. P5: 12 bolts. P6: 4 bolts. P7: 7… View Comment
Sep 5, 2022 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Glacier Gorge > Arrowhead Bequeathed 5.10d R ● Nate A and I climbed the route on September 3, 2022. We found it a fun and worthy addition to Arrowhead! View Comment
Aug 23, 2022 Gunnison > Black Canyon of… > N Rim Routes > Aretes > Russian Arete (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) A route overlay of Russian Arete. ● Thanks for the nice comments! View Comment
Dec 31, 2021 Southern Arizona > … > E Stronghold > Out-of-Towners… > S Face of Out o… > El Cautivo (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) Rappel the route. 5 raps with a single 70. ● When oriented like in this photo, rope doesn't kink. View Comment
Nov 22, 2021 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Glacier Gorge > Spearhead > Sykes' Sickle (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) A photo route overlay Sykes' Sickle and The Barb. ● I think Rossiter mentions the two options in his route description. View Comment
Nov 15, 2021 Central-E Casca… > Stuart-Enchantm… > Mt Stuart > Direct N Ridge (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) Climber leading Pitch 1 of the Gendarme, with the North Ridge stretching below. ● And three years later I climbed with you. It's a small world! View Comment

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