Fun With Rocks
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Fun at Taylor's Falls!

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Big fun on a new route.  Jess looks so comfy in her hanging belay rope nest. She called it her "rope blanket." ...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Exploratory Bolting

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Peter G. and I wanted to see if we could bolt any new routes on the tall cliffs along the St, Croix just north of Hudson. The cliffs are hig...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Climbing At Arcola

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Peter, Tan & I climbed some new routes at Arcola on Wednesday. We also discovered a new type of chickenhead to sling - a bottlehead? A b...
Friday, October 10, 2014

New Routes We Bolted At Arcola

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Getting down to the river.  Wednesday, we climbed and bolted a new route at Arcola. ( Some photos here. ) There are now only 3 routes bu...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

"When It's Raining Big Fatties, Get Out Of The Way"

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Haven't seen this yet, but with the amount of "baby sitting" going on in the gym, it's bound to happen soon.
Friday, September 19, 2014

Rattlesnake Bluff

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Ron, Peter and I climbed and did some route exploration at Rattlesnake last Wednesday. We started out with some liquid breakfast. (You know ...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Black Hills Slideshow

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A short trailer of our climbing and a longer version. Black Hills Slide Show
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Red Neck Rapping on Conn Diagonal

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Just got back from a few days climbing in the Black Hills. We climbed Conn Diagonal. The belay ledge was so crowded we had to hide Greg. He ...
Friday, May 23, 2014

"Cupcakes and Cigarettes"

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Today at Red Wing, Ron told Pete and me that his winter climbing program was "cupcakes and cigarettes." It worked well for him; I ...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Aid Climbing On Saturday

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Peter O., Marianna and I practiced some more aid climbing on Saturday morning. Lots of work cleaning on aid a traversing and overhanging rou...
Friday, May 2, 2014

We're Pathetic. Really?

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This article accuses modern people of bei ng pathetic. Could it be that our ancient ancestors were more fit than we are today? I don't b...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Red Rocks - Dark Shadows

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The last day, we climbed "Dark Shadows." It was forecast to be high 80s and this route's in the shade. This was my favorite ro...

Red Rocks - Olive Oil

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They brought me to the ba se of Olive Oil in the short bus. There was one group ahead of us at about 1PM so we waited 20 minutes to start. ...

Red Rocks - Day 4

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Marianna and Erik left our rented house about 5:30 in order to beat the rush at Epinephrine. When they got to the base about 7AM, there were...

Tunnel Vision

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" Tunnel Vision" is one of the many c lassic climbs at Red Rocks. We figured there'd be a long line when we arrived at the bas...
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