Photos by billiebob

Here's my buddy noah leading the steep steep snow gully three rope lengths up Pamolas fury 3 in late march 2003. It was warm that day, but -16F the night before in the parking lot.

Noah scrambling up the exit chimney on Pamolas Fury 3 after the wind picked up to about 50. We were pretty happy to be out of that gully. March 30, 2003

I really didn't believe you can climb ice 3 mm thick, until I got on this stuff. If you don't move your feet at ALL, scrape your picks in and pre-weight them, you can do pretty well! nuts.

Lions on the beach, January 2003. Thick plastic ice. woo hoo.

George Ide on Positive thinking when it formed HUGE Feb 10, 2002.

Cody running another lap on Gravity's Rainbow, a fantastic 12c at Lost City. This was in December 2001, a season where every single weekend was t-shirt weather until mid-month.

Peering behing the totally detached el cap tower halfway up the Salathe. June, 2002

Serge bored belaying me off off el cap tower at 6am. june 2002

This photo is from Feb, 2001, taken by Rob of Massachusetts. I had this black outfit I used to wear while winter climbing in AZ. Usually it was too thin for the shade and boiling in the sun. Days is a classic 3 pitch climb on End Pinnacle in the East Stronghold

Serge working the single bolt hauling anchor on the pitch below the sewer, Salathe wall june 2002

Here I'm leading the roof just as light fades. As fate would have it, we didn't get to Long ledge until 3am. I spent 6 hours at the hanging belay in the middle of the headwall. The roof looks so small from sous le toit!

Here I'm leading the flaring chimney off of hollow flake ledge on the Salathe' Wall. june 2002. Like a moron I didn't stop at the belay and had to stop in the middle of the next pitch.

Early morning on lung ledge, june 2002. Cody led hollow flake in the dark the night before, and rapped back to the ledge. At least we don't have to wake up to that.

Looking down towards the nose of el cap off the Block ledge on the Salathe Wall, june 2002. here is where the exposure gets real big. OK, bigger.

I'm aiding off el cap tower early in the morning on the salathe' wall. Any delusions of freeing this 1.5 inch pitch faded long ago through hauling and carrying a huge rack.

I took a pic of this anchor cuz I liked the colors. The alien backs up the two crappy pins. Gotta love the anchors on the Salathe, eh?

this photo reminds me of the climbing ad campaign a while back that went something like "through adversity...." salty peanuts weren't all that appealing, tho, with too little water in the bags

First day of the Salathe' wall june 2002. like idiots, we forgot our hauling ropes on the ground while shuffling the bags up to heart ledge, so we had to carry them on the freeblast. Here you can see the whole el cap above you.

First day of the Salathe' wall june 2002. like idiots, we forgot our hauling ropes on the ground while shuffling the bags up to heart ledge, so we had to carry them on the freeblast. Here you can see the whole el cap above you.

one of the coolest things about climbing el cap is the changing perspective of cathedral rock below. This rock is so huge, yet looks small a couple of days up el cap.

One of the most incredible views off the Salathe' is off of the tiny Sous le Toit ledge. God, I wouldn't want to sleep on this ledge. Maybe alone after 12 hours of climbing or something.

this photo captures the feeling of being on the Salathe' in the sun. It fries you. Here Cody gets psyched for the cool comfort of the Ear. Yeah right.

this photo captures the feeling of being on the Salathe' in the sun. We're looking up off the Block ledge, watching the leaders rope snake through the steep steep rock above.

One fine afternoon in June 2002, the sky was crystal clear and the moon was over elephant rock.

I just liked the colors in this scene. White flowers, white gravel. Lots of yosemite.