Archive for 2006

One more shot from last weekend. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. October 2006.

For more shots of the day and the hike click here.

I got the rest of the pictures from the day up on the main site. Check them out here.

Another good weekend, even if it was rather cold. On Saturday, we got a little climbing in with Dylan and Ann again at the Palace. I experienced a cold against which all other “cold” will be measured that day. I walked across the Poudre River in near freezing temperatures. My feet hurt soooo bad at first, and then my legs went completely numb from the knees down! It was quite an experience, and happily a short one as I had dry socks to put on once I reached the far bank. We hit two fun climbs, a long 9+ and a fun 10a that were in and out of the sun. Eventually, the snow from Friday night returned and we retired to Coopersmiths for beer and fish and chips. I’ve really had a great time hanging out with Dylan and Ann lately, and I’m really happy we’ve been able to meet such cool interesting people.

Today, we hooked up with Grant and tried embracing the coming winter with a hike to Chasm Lake. We lost the trail somewhere above tree-line in 50 mph winds and blowing snow, so we decided to turn around. These interesting cornices hovered over the trail near tree line. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Yep, we got our first snow of the season earlier this week. I’ve been a little sick the last couple of days, and I was not feeling up to really getting out and documenting the event. I think it was Tuesday afternoon that the white stuff started coming down. It melted on contact for much of the day, but then started sticking at around 4pm. By the time Mark got home (around 6p that day) there was an inch or so on the ground. By the next morning, there was probably 2 inches. Luckily it was all melted by 1pm or so that afternoon.

I took this shot just for the fun of it while I was out walking the dog before dawn on Wednesday. It was so dark, and I was having fun playing with the flash and the bright white snow.

This is one of the shots from the climbing we did on Saturday. Greyrock mountain is a huge granite dome just northwest of Ft Collins. The hike in is pretty rough, 2 miles with some serious elevation gain. Usually, after doing such a massive approach, Mark and I climb one of the 4-5 pitch routes to the summit of the dome. Liv usually hangs out at the bottom and guards the packs from rodents. But on Saturday, there were signes up everywhere warning of active bears in the area and loudly dissuading everybody from leaving pets and children un-attended.

We decided to keep Liv with us and explore the South Slabs area. These are a group of single pitch climbs that turned out to be really nice. We still got in 4 pitches of climbing, and Liv got to spend the day sleeping next to us on the ledge.

For more pics from the weekend, click here!

Last weekend Mark and I spent two days climbing hard on the sweet granite of the Poudre Canyon, just outside Fort Collins. On Saturday, we climbed the South Slabs on Greyrock, and on Sunday we finally got a chance to meet up with the Cyberhobo. We had an awesome day climbing with a great group of people on some fun climbs at the Palace. This is Cyberhobo/Dylan thinking hard about the next section of climbing. Poudre Canyon, The Palace, Northern Colorado.

For more pics from a great day, click here!

A perfect wave cloud hovering over Arthur’s Rock this afternoon. October, 2006.

Yep, I’m still posting these pictures. Hey, they turned out well! And the place was incredible!

On Sunday, Mark and I went out to the Fish Creek Falls area, which is a little campground/picknick/hiking area about 5 minutes north of Steamboat Springs. The area centers around a 280ft waterfall. I tried taking pics of it, but the light was right behind it, and I was too far away for anything really spectacular.

Anyway, after a little while we found the hike recommended for fall color viewing in the paper that morning. This trail ran up the mountain south of the waterfall and ended at an old, abandonded uranium mine. It was a really cool hike.