The Darkened spots in the corners are a result of my point and shoot getting clogged with sand and the lens cover not fully opening. I didn't notice till later, but rather like the result. Great canyon!

I at first wanted to discard this image, but then fell in love with the blurry darkness of the whole thing. To me it captures the essence of deep, cold, dark canyoneering. A sense of urgency. Maybe I'm an idiot. Maybe I'm an addict. Either way, I'm a canyoneer!

While hiking a slot in the San Rafael Swell, I stopped behind the group to snap a shot. The ripples in the sand and the lines in the sandstone especially appealed to me. Taken with my Sony point and shoot digital.

Once on the main ledge, two difficult pitches lead to the summit. This is the first of those pitches.

After doing the first ascent (not very clean) we worked it on top-rope, which is where the name came from.

got bored, decided to make a vectorized version of one of my pics....... I'm not very good at photoshop, but I think it turned out ok. This is one of the boulders at the bottom of Pine Creek wall. I don't think it'd been climbed before as we had to clean it alot, and some of the holds we used at first broke.

Utah can offer good climbing any time of the year. The Utah Climbing Club found this south centeral Utah location ideal for February.

The Utah Climbinb club has some talented climbers like Julie that are just plain fun to watch. Of Course the location is inspiring as well.

The San Rafael Swell area east of Castle Dale Utah offers some prim winter climbing.

A photo of Jeff Campbell climbing at the Swell and catching the last rays of sun before the end of the day. I have reposted this photo with a better scan. No photoshopping has been done. View more photos at www.cruxphoto.com

My brother and I just wandering into the reef and explored random slots. Lots of dangerous sketching chimney climbing. lots of dead ends. lots of posibilities of getting lost, stranded, injured, killed. lots of cool little rappels, all in all One hell of an adventure!

The route "On A Bender" takes the partially shaded corner where the tower is attached to the main wall (5.11 thin hands to fingers). A second pitch climbs a short bolt ladder to an A2 crack/seam to the summit.

the most technical part of the climb was trusting my weight on a little peble sticking halfway of of the wall, probably one of the most scary climbs I have done.

left of save me jebus, this climb offers little and takes a lot.

The death wall is nothing more than a crumbling mass, I wouldn't stop if I was you!!!!!

This is down by the river at the mouth of Buckhorn wash. Awesome day for hangin' out is some of the most beautiful country in the world.

My wife Jenna traversing the side of a huge boulder in the river bottom. Awesome area with a few nice problems. Hardly any sign of previous climbers.

This is a sweet boulder we found along the river in the San Rafael Swell. Has an amazing highball, slightly slabby, face. Amazing.

About to launch for a small right hand crimper on an unknown boulder in the San Rafael Swell.

Climbing unknown boulder in San Rafael Swell. Most the boulders seemed rotten but we were able to make a few problems.

The LightBulb 5.9+ A0, fun climb to a very small summit.

Mitch climbing the beautiful Old Bushmills in the San Rafael Swell.

Honestly felt like that flake was going to pull right off.

12 feet across, 45 feet down, and 7 miles into the canyon. This is on the list of dumbest things I've ever done.

After a brief hail storm (litterally 10 minutes before this photo) the sun came out and allowed us the best route of the day.