Photos by bikerecker

We hit Spire the day before Dome, near the end of the Traverse, August, 2003

Glissading off Dome Dropping off Dome, we did a long standing Glissade, went on for hundreds of feet, then we plopped down to arrest and start walking back to camp above Cub Lake

Cool ridge off of Dome's true summit. The catwalk summit ridge is somewhat hairy, but this thing looks scary...

Final trudge up the snow to the rock ridge of Dome. The place is beautiful. Dome was bittersweet, it marked the lsat summit for our Ptarmigan trip. We climbed five peaks along the way, and gained in admiration for the original Ptarmigans.

Finally heading out of the high country after 6 days above tree line in the N. Cascades. That shirt was getting pretty rank...

A lot more to AR than sweet sandstone and politicians and rednecks. Rock and Roll came from the Blues, and the blues was invented in the Delta, which is half in AR, half in MS. W. Helena has a great fest every Fall, now called the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival. Pic is of a typical street scene, 2005.

I blieve this is Aretes of fun, which lives up to its name. We go back to it time and time again. We ahve gone to the Lilly Boulders when it was too wet to climb, and just hung out, enjoying the Japanese rock garden ambience. What a great place.

One of the nicest 5.9s around. We climbed on a nice Friday afternoon in November, had ALL of South Clear to ourselves, walked out in the dark with no lights...

Took this on one of our first bouldering trips to Lilly, we used a blanket instead of a pad and had a blast. Amazing how few people climb at Lilly Boulders.

the light and color looked right. I was sitting on the belay ledge below Cheap Seats and this looked like a decent image.

Believe this was from Spider-Formidible col, before drop to Yin-Yang lakes below Leconte. Dome, Gunsight off in the distance. Trip was made in '03, so memory is foggy, but what a glorious view!

Clear Creek from Lilly overlook. Great swimming and fishing when the rock gets abusive