Photos by timpanogos

Here lies a great partner! Plus have him explain the finer design points of the fish double ledge (ask him about the pee hole)

this is about pitch 13 - 6 or 7 days into the climb what a geek!

Yes the wind blew - notice the 30' of the loose end of the rope - straigth up in the air!

YOSAR practiced some helicopter resuce most of the day - off Cathedral across the way p fun to watch - and a bit strange looking way down on a helicopter in flight.

Bring you cam hooks, hooks, hb brassies and small gear! First pitch - what a blast

The incredible geometry just keeps coming at you - pitch after pitch - along with it's thhhhiiiinnnn placements this is top part of pitch before the nipple and the lower part of the nipple pitch.

it just keeps coming at you - the geometry, the beauty - the thin aid

Yep, zodiac, more increable geometry - moon and sky

Well if it is not super thin - it's waaaayyyy thick! #5 cam jumar anyone?

ok, about enough, but like I said, the geometry/climb/intensity of zodiac just keep coming at you

This is the top out view for Zodiac - very very nice stuff! What a fantastic climb in a wonderfull place.

I was hauling to the base of WSR, heard a roar turned around and saw a big rock slide on Cathedral. caught a few pictures of the after math.

I was hauling to the base of WSR, heard a roar turned around and saw a big rock slide on Cathedral. caught a few pictures of the after math.

Complements (and special thanks to) Eric Kohl, who put these to gether and got them out last minute for us

This is just half of the liquid that we will need.

Getting ready for the big trip, yea yea, I'm gonna die. And Looking forward to it

This is the baby sized brass wired tooth brush, somewhat useful for heading

Ok put away the baby stuff and get out the man's pasting brush! had to cut this dude in half and make two

This is actually the 2nd time I'd set this same head in the same spot - it popped with easy weight the first time, It appeared like it would hold this time - it did not easly bounce brought it out Look at the seam around the head - this was virgin rock hard to work on cleaning this for awhile - I think part of the deal with the first two placements was simply the powdering of the rock until it had conformed to the head size

This poor head was getting beaten by now - I pounded the alumnum back towards the wire then tried it again. I think the first two simply poweded the granite until the shape was right - then it finally worked - I wonder if one should just shape the seam a little in the first place, leaving the head in better shape?

After cleaning the #1 head - I pasted a #2 head in the same placement The dead head cleaned easily with small punch hitting upward from the bottom of the placement and prying outward after it was drove in a bit.

My question deals with the back of this head - notice that immediately behind the wire - it had not deformed, let a lone, flowed into the rock. And yet the wire failed before the placement

This head took a fairly aggressive aider bounce test just fine It failed with funkness with an hammer swing I would catagorize as "a firm tap" I was a bit surprised at how easy that wire popped.

After getting on it with aiders and bouncing it a bit, I funkness tested. Dang #1 heads, not much more than the weight of the hammer falling did this

This placement lightly bounce tested fine with aiders.