Climbing Adventures

Climbing Adventures

Proposed Adventure Calendar for 2000

Here is a collection of my climbing adventures. Feedback is encouraged. If you’d like to be added to my climbing mailing list, click here. Trip reports are mailed out to this list before posted on this web site. Sometimes months before and sometimes the trip reports never make it to this site.

Latest adventures	Desert Towers	Climbing By Year
Climbing Partners	Yosemite adventures	Fifty Classic Climbs
My First Climb	Colorado 14ers	Colorado Speed Climbing
Speed Records	Climbing Grades	My Gear
Boulder's Easiest 5.11's	New Aid Rating Proposal (coming soon)
Routes I've Climbed	My Accident	Colorado Wide Crack Routes
Funny Climbing Moments	Brief Synopsis of My Climbing History and Ability

Yosemite Adventures

Here is a collection of my climbing adventures in Yosemite National Park. Feedback is encouraged. Enjoy.

Salathé Wall on El Capitan

Direct North Buttress of Middle Cathedral Rock New! - actually very old, but new to this site.

Right Side of the Folly (The Good Book) and Arrowhead Arete New! - actually very old, but new to this site.

Superslide, Keystone Corner, and Copper Penny New! - actually very old, but new to this site.

Half Dome

Cobra,

Lucky Streaks,

Rostrum (sort of),

East Buttress of Lower Cathedral Rock,

Running Half Dome

The Nose of El Capitan

Yosemite Point Buttress Direct

South Face of Washington Column

Kor-Beck on Middle Cathedral Rock

West Face of Rixon's Pinnacle

Braille Book on Higher Cathedral Spire

North Face of Quarter Dome

Hobbit Book

Fifty Classic Climbs

Shortly after I first started climbing, the book Fifty Classic Climbs of North American appeared in my local climbing store. It is not a stretch to state that this book changed my life. It started a lifelong quest to travel and climb a great variety of routes. At first I didn't have the skills to climb any of the routes listed in this book, but it was my motivation to increase my skills. Many nights were spent re-reading this book and planning adventures to come.

Now, almost twenty years later, my passion hasn't diminished. I've done thirty of classic routes now and I expect that I'll top out at forty. The last ten are either too hard, too dangerous, too remote, too miserable, or maybe just too much. But I have lots of climbing lists now and the lists grow far faster than I can check off routes. No matter. It is the quest for adventure and travel and new challenges that are important. But having that original Fifty Classic list and re-reading it on winter evenings and dreaming about adventures to come still remains one of my greatest pleasures. Heck, when I dream about adventures, I dream the weather is always great and I'm always climbing strong.

Below is a table of the 50 Classic Routes that I've done.

California	Colorado	Desert Southwest	Pacific Northwest
Half Dome	The Diamond	Castleton Tower	North Ridge of Mt. Stuart
The Nose	Northcutt/Carter on Mt. Hallet	The Titan	Liberty Ridge on Mt. Rainier
Salathé Wall	Ellingwood Arete on the Crestone Needle		West Ridge of Forbidden Peak
Royal Arches	Petit Grepon		Liberty Crack on Liberty Bell
East Buttress of Middle Cathedral Rock	Wyoming	Canada
Charlotte Dome	Wolf's Head	Northeast Ridge of Bugaboo Spire
South Face of the Clyde Minaret	Pingora	East Ridge of Mt. Temple
Regular Route on Fairview Dome	Direct Exum Ridge on the Grand Teton
East Face of Mt. Whitney	North Face of the Grand Teton
Lost Arrow Spire	Direct South Buttress of Mt. Moran
Traveler's Buttress	North Ridge of the Grand Teton
Steck-Salathé on Sentinel Rock	Devils Tower