Photos by okieterry

Terry Andrews on FFA of Skin Flick, Cave Creek, Arkansas, 1995

Sequence of me on successful attempt of Skin Flick, 1995.

Pic of me leading Midterm (5.10) at Arch Rock.

Pic by Marion of me before my first attempt of the nose with Mark and Jon. I think it was 1981 or so.

Pic taken by my sister back in 1981 of me on the Chandler Park classic "Wings of Steel".

Pic by Julie Emory of Terry on the first ascent of Ants in Your Pants. He is just pass the crux and moving up and right to his encounter with the flying ants!!

Rick McCusic and I topped out on the Nose in June 1992. It was a wonderful experience and my first time to the summit of El Cap.

For her first multipitch climb, I took Allison up the League of Doom and then finished with the ultraclassic Spaceballs pitch. She loved it!!

crag dogs celebrating a wonderful morning at lake lawtonka, wichita mountains, oklahoma

Chauca is owned by Julie E and accompanies Julie on many trips. She's always well behaved.

Stacy did a wonderful job of leading this stiff 5.9 located on Mount Scott in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. The route has a scary 10 foot run-out at the crux. She cruised it.

Route named for the spooky sounds enamating from an old windmill located off in a field nearby. Pic of okieterry by Luke.

Loran on her first trip up the Snakehead at Baldy Point, Dec. 11, 2005. In typical windy and cool conditions.

One of the great partnerships in the Wichitas was formed by Jimmy and Jon. Here's a photo of the first ascent of Critical Mass during the fall of 1978. Jon is leading and he managed to really scrape his arm up on the rough rock inside the crack.

Learning to trust the mono on the classic traverse outside the bouldering room at OKCRocks.

Jimmy Ratzlaff bolting on the first ascent of Chicago Bound. Climb completed during a typical August heat wave back in 1979 or so. Photo by Jon Frank (I think)

Picture of Duane at Quartz back in the early days. Not sure who took this photo but Jimmy Ratzlaff sent it to me several years ago.

Photo of Jimmy, Duane, and Rick scoping out Quartz Mountain in the old days.

Matt on Spaceman Spiff. The route has one bolt and then protects with small cams from 0.3 to 1.5 inches. The finish is a little burly for a 5.10 and very memorable.

This guy helped us bolt this new variation to an old climb by bringing the drill and bolting gear. It doesn't look like he's having fun does it?

One of our own...making it big in Colorado. For a week back in the summer of 2004 I got to climb a few days with the Neptune Mountaineering Buyer...another Oklahoman doing well in Colorado.

Julie Emory on the crux move of the "Unnamed Route" on Hidden Wall. This route is to the left of Serpentine and is one of the best routes in the Wichita Mountains. Its rated 5.9 but its very sustained.

Pic taken during the Thanksgiving 04 weekend showing the steepness of this fine face route.

Who is this guy???? Most of the time he's mild mannered, easy going climbing retailer....but once he arrives at the crag he just goes "Mr. Hyde" on us! I quickly snapped this photo of him after he calmed down a bit.

Thanksgiving 2005 - Thomas gives Power Series a try. He's almost to the fingercrack and good pro.....

Wroyce starting the steep part of "The Claw" on Crab Eyes Formation in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma.

Well....here it is! After a long wait, we finally went back for a gander. Bolts are still there. Pins are still there. A couple of draws hang off of the last bolts before the final obstacle...a ten foot horizontal roof with few holds!!! A word of caution..before you go move onto the block at the end of the rail system...test it...the last time I was on it I swear I felt it shift!!!

Chris Marks (berkly) doing the first ascent of this fine route. I had been eyeing this thing for years but always thought that it was filled with poison ivy. As Matt and I were trying Corndog, which is located just to the right of the crack, I suggested to Chris that it would make a fine first ascent. He agreed and quickly sent it while stripping the vines out of it as he climbed. This route is very classic. It has a kinda scary "no hands" traverse down low and then a good crux near the end that felt like solid 5.9 to me. Great climb for a guy on his first trip to Crab Eyes!!!

Pic showing the "The Full Monty" route in the Narrows of the Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma. Route starts at the waterline and ends at the Kerplunk belay.

Terry getting set before the crux throw/reach for a bomber hueco. The pit below is deep and dark.

This guy lives near the barn and has one heck of a self defence system. Don't tred on me!!

This is a closeup of the polish on "The Main Rub". I think that this polish is from large land animals rubbing themselves on the rock. Since a lot of the polish extends about 15 feet up, its possible that some of this was caused by mammoths.

Terry working on the initial moves of the largest boulder at the mammoth rubs. This thing actually starts out steep and then overhangs near the top.

Terry on one of his many attempts on Thinman, which is a very thin problem on the Skid Mark Boulder.

Pic by Rebecca of me spotting Steve Gilliam on one his first tries on The Main Rub.

Pic by Rebecca as Terry does first ascent of "HolyMoly" on the big boulder by the barn.

Spivy doing a great job leading Last of the Good Guys as the sun sets Saturday at the 2005 Spring Fling. Although he was scared, he did a great job and didn't fall. This part of the climb (after the mantle) involves a 10 foot run-out to the next bolt and can be very intimidating.

Although Peter Croft was impressed with the climbing in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma, the thing he was most excited about was the wildlife setting. This is a pic of okieterry and a typical trail scenario.

Pic of me by Dre during our ascent of J Crack, June 2004. Although we had known each other for years, it was actually the first time we ever climbed together. All clothing donated by Amber...I think I look pretty suave!!

Okieterry training on his 20 foot long crack machine. It's made of two 2' by 12' pine boards that are held apart using 3/8 inch threaded rod. The crack size and taper are easily adjusted. The inside of the crack has been painted with a very fine grit paint.

Pic by Luke or Okieterry right in the middle of the crux move of the route (2nd pitch) June 04. Belayer was Allison Brown. It was her first multpitch route!

This route follows a very bold line up the Leaning Tower. Jon Frank did the first ascent many years ago in the mid 1980s but a fixed pin that had protected the crux was gone. Jimmy, Matt, and I spent most of a day hanging around and replacing the old bolts and a bolt where the pin used to be. Then Jimmy sent the route. Ultra steep and hairy...just what Jimmy likes!

Pic that Hal Cantwell shot of me on "Lost my Religion" at Lost Dome, Wichita Mountains in the early 1990s. I scanned this page from "Oklahoma Magazine".

Hey! Get off our line!! Jimmy on the "descent" from the summit of the Rostrum.

Just a beautiful fall day on one of the best routes in the world - the eighth pitch of the Rostrum goes up a nice corner and around a little roof to an nicely exposed belay stance.

Yeah right!! Julie finding out about climbing chimneys. What a trooper. She's also hauling up the water too! Pic by Okieterry, October, 2003.

Wolfgang Gullich on Clever Lever in 1980. I found out later that you could make this move a lot easier by sticking your left toes under a flake up and left of his left hand and levering out for the next hold with your leg. Duh...the "clever lever"! Oh well...we got it anyway.

Uhhh....no thanks! Wolfgang and I hanging out at the belay under Psycho Roof in the summer of 1980. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't reach a hold near the lip. I didn't want to do it because I was scared of the runout traverse once you turned the roof!

Back in 1980 I was playing around and barely managed to pull my favorite roof aunaturale.

Okieterry pushing one of the crabeyes around. Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma, photo by Allison Brown.