Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Climbing

Red Rocks, Nevada
3 Weeks
Trad and Sport Climbing


One of many towering cliffs to be dominated in our 3 weeks stage in the climbing mecca of the nation. To put that in perspective that is over 2000 ft. tall.


We Multi-pitched which means that the climb was longer than one rope length 70 meter or 210 ft. this picture is about 600 ft off the deck.


Single pitches averaged about 70-90 ft. These put your skills to the test. This is me on a 5-11a climb (Spicy climb)

We had the opportunity to ascend some pretty unique landmarks.


Hiking to the Crag for a day of vertical medicine.


In our free time people enjoyed hearing me preach. This was a sermon on washing your hands so you didn't get fecal oral contamination, or the soupy poopy as I like to call it.





Good luck finding me on this pic but this was on my way up a 2000 ft+ cliff.






Looking down on a bird's eye view will put all your life in perspective. This gave a whole new meaning to mountain top experience. If you want to get a clearer vision of God it just takes some upward movement.





Ceiling like this with 800+ feet of air under you will make you bring an extra pair of underwear.


14 hrs of climbing. 18 pitches. 2000 plus ft. of vert. bloody fingers, stomach churning ceilings, 5-10 move after 5-10 move, sketchy protection. Life is good! Now how do i get down?





The instructors kept on saying "put D-Luxx on Ying-Yang" "Put BJ on Ying-Yang we'll see what he really has"
A simple 5-11d flash and there was no more talk.

My favorite climbing moment.

2 comments:

Justin and Heather Bland said...

... I have no words... simply beyond awesome.

Justin and Heather Bland said...

"if you want to get a clearer vision of GOD it just takes some upward movement"

I LOVE that thought! very well put.