Photos by TheDullEnd

Starting up the first pitch of Haystack. My first big-boy trad lead (the first was Gutenberg Direct at Cosumnes).

With two seconds, someone's going to be spending a lot of time hanging out and just looking around.

There are three pieces in this, I swear. Yes, I probably could have placed a nut higher, but I'm still a trad-rookie and nobody died, so that's not bad.

same picture, different angle. am i fiddling with pro? look how low angle that is, still scary for a newbie though!

Hah, Tom.

The photographer himself. I'm too cheap to own a digital camera, so I stole all of these pictures from Tom. Thanks Tom.

I love it when the sun hits the rock this way.

just kidding, he's fine.

Look!

Me cleaning some gear, with perhaps some weird spinal posturing.

Steve on his second lead ever, pretty steep, good stuff,

Steve-O keeps on crankin up.

Left their headlamp on for this picture, so it's all washed out. About to rap off old woman rock on Friday night, my first rappel through an episode of Battle of the Planets. Maybe you saw us.

Acro and TheDullEnd after a night ascent of Dog Leg, Old Woman Rock. Tough climbing, and very sustained, probably the hardest 5.8 I've ever led.

Two pumped seconds very happy to reach the belay.

Acro comes up Hands Off (5.8).

Mmmmm, the kiss of quartz monzonite. Poor Steve-O.

Steve-O, hand jamming TO THE MAX.

TheDullEnd making the exit moves on Hands Off (5.8). It looks like I'm doing it with my eyes closed, but I'm not.

I do, however, plug all of my pro with eyes shut.

Steve-O about to take his first lead EVER up The Eye (5.1). He's growing up!

Steve-O about to follow up the squeeze chimney. Relatedly, Steve-O about to realize that clipping two pairs of shoes to his harness pre-chimney was a BAD IDEA.