Photos by climbingnurse

In all it's glory... A sunrise view from the trail up to Chasm Lake.

This was my first ice climb. Tim (pictured) was basically guiding me up this. We were gonna do Kiener's, but a late start combined with fresh snow on the route meant we ended up going all the way back down Lamb's Slide.

2-year-old Dannie tries out rockclimbing with a little help from her mom, Anissa. Picture by Stefanie. This was from a day of climbing I organized for the mom's (and their kids) in my nursing program.

Finishing up the day with Stichter Quits.

45 degrees and raining... 2.5 mile approach hike. Sketchy Aid climbing. This is what it's like to be a trad climber in the DC area in the middle of winter.

This came out with a tug on the aiders after I clipped it. I ended up not doing the "A1" line out the roof. From the ground it looks like it would take small gear, but you'd basically have to rely on old pins like this to do the climb. Unless of course you are willing to pound your own iron, but I'm not.

No idea who this is, but he was posing for someone else and I snapped his picture.

I was at the belay for Stichter Quits as the sun went down and was treated to this great view

It rained on us for two straight days, but we did get to see this pretty rainbow.

Funny story... When we went to get our rental car they had run out of cars. They were very apologetic about only having 12 passenger vans left. They were soooo sorry that they gave me a free tank of gas.

This was such a fantastic climb and a fantastic photo opp as well.

-Metolius TCU's (00 through 4) -Metolius Power Cams (5 through 9) -CCH Aliens (Black through Yellow) -BD Camalots (.5 through 3) (#3 is the only C4) -BD Stoppers (4 through 13) -HB Offsets (3 through 6) -Camp Tri-Cams (pink through blue) -20 BD Neutrinos -3 Bent-gates Coming soon: -A BD #4 C4 Camalot and another neutrino

This is what I carry with me on trad climbs for draws. Sometimes I don't carry all of them. There are a total of 10 trad draws and one quickdraw. The last three trad draws are distinct so as to serve as "gas lights" to tell me I should start looking for an anchor.

This is me doing a little buildering between classes. Excellent photography by Russ Watts.

Another shot from the canal sessions by Russ Watts.

This was the scene as I was climbing the last 200 feet or so in December of 2002. Mt. Marcy is the highest peak in the Adirondacks (NY), but a fairly easy walk up. By the time I got to the top, the clouds had socked in and I couldn't see a damn thing.

Me somewhere between the upper and lower saddles on the Grand.