It's Cody Time

Snuck down to Cody for a little Sendero Illuminoso. Aaron on the ice, Joel on the ropes, and Anya on the camera.

Anya coming up the last 20 feet.

Break (dance) Time

Out to Lunch. Check back in a couple weeks. Work, Travel, Team, Routesetting. We'll get back to the Alpine Life when we're good and ready. In the meantime check out the SteepTeam site.

More photos from the spire.

Joel leading through the crux of pitch 2.

Joel hauling the pack on pitch 3

Storm Spire

Our camp with Storm Spire looming 900 feet above us. Our seven pitch route took the north face directly up out of the lake. I should have a couple more good photos from some of the other pitches in the next week or two.

Daniel starting up the first pitch of seven.

The Doctor coming up the wandering fith pitch.

The Doctor, Daniel, and Monseur Danaher on the summit preparing for descent.

Summit Cowboy

Proud

Hiking in to camp with our objective ridgeline looming above right. A storm struck us within a ropes length from the top and we spent the next 3 hours descending the north face.

Anya nearing the summit of the large gendarme, about an hour before the storm, and 11 rappels.

Daniel and I turned around on our line up Inabnit and all we got was this photo and some sore feet.

The Standard Shot of Whitetail

Whitetail Peak and it's northeast ridge on the left, the basin of the West Fork of Rock Creek on the right.

Camp.

Summit shot, 6:32 in the morning.

Two Cent Tower Reprise

Looking down the tower from the top of the third pitch. The west fork valley expanding below.

D-Man coming up the classic third pitch.

Wild Bill's Buttress

The first two pitches were a little messy but the 160' 3rd pitch to the summit was worth the effort.

Joel getting prepared for the roof and sweet hand crack on the upper headwall pitch.