Photos by aulwes

This is a fun climb! I've heard the 5.7 variation is if you use the wall behind me in this picture. Picture was taken by Mitch.

This is a topo of the routes at The pillars of Stratford. Fun place to train, very close to home.

This is a topo of the routes at The pillars of Stratford. Fun place to train, very close to home.

This is a topo of the routes at The pillars of stratford. Fun place to train, very close to home.

This is a topo of the routes at The pillars of stratford. Fun place to train, very close to home.

This is a topo of the routes at The pillars of stratford. Fun place to train, very close to home.

This is a great route! Starts out with a finger sized crack then to a roof. After topping out on the ledge the route continues to just feet from the top of the rock. I would love to lead this crack, but the sandstone is soo soft to hold pro, but just hard enough to climb on. Beware there may be some lose rock.

This was mitch's 3rd lead ever! Nice job! Now he stilll needs to take his first big lead fall. ;-)

C'mon Mitch he needs more slack, you're starting to pull him off the route. This is a great route, I reccomend it for everyone! The park service really needs to allow these old spinners to be re-bolted.

This was a good Slab route; I thought it was rating 5.7, but it doesn't matter it was fun. The pic is of me belaying Bryson.

This is a shot of the Great zot from the bottom of the climb. We had a great time on this climb! My buddy JC threw-up at the end of pitch three; but we pushed on and we finished the climb with a great view of the valley. I recommend this climb to anyone visiting the area.

The bottom of the route was several 5.9 to 5.10 moves. Then the final moves were 5.11+ maybe 5.12. Variation that I enjoyed is to move left before the last moves and finish on the neighboring route.

This is a great place to camp while at trappers cam. Please take your trash with you; last time I was camping in the cave I had to sweep up broken glass in order to clean a spot to lay the tent.

For those Newbies and Trolls I've made it very simple. On the left is 3mm nylon cord. the other is 11/16th sewn sling. If your going to make your slings do it right!

The hair line crack int the center of the picture is protected by 6 pitons that are rusted and at least 10 years old. To the left of that the a large bulge, I refer to it as cedar ledge because of the cedar tree growing on it.

The route was covered with sand, but the more sand I brushed off the less rock there was.

This is a photo os Sandy climbing in his hiking boots at Palisades, SD... on the route Garden Path.

Cemetery Gates, on Harkor Tower. It is a fun 5.10 route!!! (Climb the face/thin to finger sized crack left of the corner)

First I lead up this fun crack, and I decided to climb it again to feel the the difference between the lead and the top rope. I'm not sure who took the shot, but thank you all for the great weekend!

This is kyle's first climb! (Left corner of Everyday Buttress)

This is a top view looking down on Sarah climbing Jammer (5.9).

This is an example of an idea to greatly reduce the possibility of it rotating and receiving a dangerous ‘cross-gate’ loading, when arresting a fall. When the job is done and it’s time to remove it from your belay loop, simply seperate the velcro and it flops out of the way.

This is an example of an idea to greatly reduce the possibility of it rotating and receiving a dangerous ‘cross-gate’ loading, when arresting a fall. When the job is done and it’s time to remove it from your belay loop, simply seperate the velcro and it flops out of the way.

Here is a shot of Halloween Wall while I was climbing on Wave Back Wall!

This is it a fun little 5.9 climb the extends out over the water!!!