Photos by superbum

This is a view of Old Smokey from the road where you park. Good Hip Vibes takes the obvious left crack.

This here is an awesome splitter. It was raining when this was taken so the detail and lighting sucks...but you can tell it's a good one!

Me crossing the 3rd class exposed mini-ledge on Dragon Peak in the high Sierra, fondly called the Holdless Horror in refrence to the blind person who described this well featured slab as holdless...

This is my buddy Shane's dog Levi wondering what in the hell is going on. The buttermilks aren;t just about the boulders ya know...Cullen about to enter the .11a crux moves on Abandonment Issues

This climb is super fun! Steep, jugs for rests and hard little cruxes. Almost no gear at the top makes this route stick in your mind...Try the traverse at the bottom too...awesome, and crowd free!

Here is Caveman Dan getting ready to cross Liddy's Mouth. Note Vanessa's yoga pose in the background...

Vanessa enjoying our favorite stop on the way to the Pollengrains...

Another Jedi Pic...except from a new point of view. Spotter's ready?

Jason walking on water as we head towards Bishop Pass to climb Mt. Agassiz. Needless to say, it was COLD!

Great climb, great position, hard enough to challenge and frustrate...Here is Dan demonstrating the dynamic caveman beta

This is the first crux on the gift. From these holds with the heel you have to bump out left to a small sloper (see next pic.) when you are tired and pumed w/ a bad right hand. Brilliant.

In the middle of the first crux. Notice the bad handholds. What is really holding weight is your heel. If you miss going for the left sloper you fall straight on your back! The next hold is a jug where you can rest for the top out deadpoint second crux. Best problem ever!

Here is another pic of my route Smoke Screen and the crack beside it. Smoke screen follows the black streak up to the twin white spots where there is a flake and a bolt. A big reach out right to another thinner flake, then the first horizontal. HUGE reach (or dyno) up to the next horizontal. DO NOT USE THE VERTICAL CRACK! From there stay left of the mini roof block, protect the next horizontal and continue over the bulge to the top of the wall. 5.10+. Harder if you are short.

Another Gift pic. My right hand is on a very open-handed sloper. You match there, bring your feet up and reach up and over the lip to the only feature on top of the boulder...a tiny crimp rail. Rock over and DON'T FALL! bad landing from there...

Here we go, another pig pen pic. Even though the quality sucks, you can see the crack and the leg-eater hole. Hardest v3 on the planet.

Well, as you can see, the sun is JUST coming over the ridge. That means that it is COLD, the creeks are frozen, the road is closed, the cracks of our intended route are filled with ice, and I am pissed. A miscalculation in direction made us sit and get high on coffee while our route stayed nice and shady. fck.

yet another Pigpen pic. Here I am swinging my leg into the maw...I can't remember if this was the leg that should go in there or if it was the other...fckn hard bloody crack!

This is a picture of my rack (hardware). No, I don't carry this up the rock every time, but these are the things I own...

This is a picture of my rack (software). No, I don't carry this up the rock every time, but these are the things I own...

This is my beloved old school wooden axe (that I need to sharpen and stain) hanging out on the john...

"OH MY GOSH! Stop the fckn car!" That was a direct quote from me when I first saw this awesome feature. It's hard to tell at first, but this is a large, smooth tubelike cylinder that is about 50ft to the leftmost ledge with another 20ft of headwall above. I had some serious goes on toprope (I cleaned a crack just above the left hump/ledge, you can see it) and now believe it to be impossible. Now, I realize I am not a great climber, but the steepness combined with the fragile and tiny nature of the holds leads me to think that no amount of skill, strength or sticky rubber can accend this feature. If ANYONE succedes, let me know!!!!

Awesome lighting developed after a rest day stop at the canyonlands outpost. Had to snap this pic on the way back to camp...one of my favorite walls in the creek.

On the way back to Indian Creek after a rest day in Moab, literally stumbled upon this vulture paradise...I LOVE THE DESERT! Serves the rancher right....

This is an easy fast way to this spectacular summit. In fact, Paradise Point Camp in McCall uses this route for an outing called Mountain Adventure Camp. Fun!

CAmper nearing the big ledge and finishing jug. Cool route for beginners and a solid anchor with mnimal gear.