Photos by russman

So, after 30 years of never ownign a dog....I finally broke down and got a 10 week old Lab puppy for our kidz.

I figured I woudl get a dog when the kidz were old enoggh and I owned my own house....well, here she is...ALLIE, the new climbing buddy and all aroudn house dog for us

Here are the side view plans for a shed I am building..
using this pic in conjunction with this thread

Here is another section of my extended 25' of webbing to reach my anchor (phone pole).

Just behind the black buckle, I have the webbing wrapped thru the pre-sewn "rap-Ring" and laced back towards the carabiner, and then to the buckle as a tightener. So I guess that is giving me a 2:1 ratio on that end.

Here is a shot of my solid anchor end. It is wrapped aroudn a tree about 5.5' up the base...

Showing the Ethos tension right here

OK, here is me, still tryign to get my line tight enough for my 180 lbs to walk on it....this was about 8 feet from my solid tree anchor...

When I finally did get it tight enough to walk a littel bit, I would 'zing" right off. I need to figuer out a way to shorten the line to make it more walkable.

Here was my original dilemha. I had the line streched the full length, and was still short of my final anchor by about 25'.

A quick webbing order later, I rigged it up, but it still took a bit. Still not tight enough for my to walk, but I will figure that out over teh winter.

OK, so I set up my line and it is a little too long and short fro my fat arse to walk, but my 3 YO who weighs in just over 40 lbs. loves to walk it.

Next summer, I am sure he will be wanting daddy to set it up more and play more.

I Had to buy some more webbing to be able to tension my line to the Phone Pole 20' away from the end of my line.

Here is a shot lookign down the length of my line. long way to the other end for a back-yard line

Here I am fondeling my band new rope...kinda looks like a n00b askin, "What do I tie in this? And what is all this Krap hangin on my shoulder?"

thanx for the pic T

Here Bobbi and I are watchign Robert show us some other important steps to figureing out placements and such.

This was my first time to really play with Trad gear and learn soemthing. Most do it again, Thanx Robert

pic by nikegirl

Here Hangerlessbolt is teaching me some Trad. We Top Roped this route (10a for a trad go, first time, I am a freak) and then I would go up and set the pieces and Robert came behind to check out the placements and such.

Was pretty cool, a fun route too....I will get to the top next time, and not just 10 feet away:)

Pic by nikegirl

Here is the look of a FOOL that throws 2 ropes in one rig after a day of climbing, then takes the other truck to the crag the next day, and didn't realize that the ropes were nowhere to be found until we were 45+ miles away.

Thanx for the pic T.

This is what happens when you leave BOTH of your ropes behind an Hour and a Half away...and so you drive 10 minutes to buy a NEW rope....

You get the pleasure of the first untangeling at the base of the climb.

It took Hanger and I around 10 mintues to flake that new beauty....glad you bought the 60m Hanger:)

Thanx to nikegirl for the pic

This pic was taken 3-21-04. Ryann is just over 6 months old. We were not paying attention to her big brother very well.

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Here is a shot of Hunter (Lil-Cwboy) showing off his new baby sister for the first time. This was the first time Hunter got to see his little sis, still in the hospital.

This is our new baby

Ryann Michelle Harrington. I will give her a user name soon and post more pix.

Here is a picture of lil-cwboy checking out the Granite slabs less then a mile away from my little brothers new house.

We need to go back and really check this out, since I have never been on granite, we can have a first together, after I get his new harness (in the mail).

This is a peel on logo like most you see on Cars and stuff. It is made of the same material that you see with "Calvin pissing on everything" and his uncle.

We have a limited number for the first order to see how this goes. The price is $10 (shipping included). You can make your payment via PayPal to Sales@rockclimbing.com. When you place your order, please state that it is for "Russ' Truck Logo". Get them while they last the first time, a second order could be coming soon.

We got to the crag at around 9 Am and there was not a soul around, so we got the run of the place. We started looking at the climbs and I noticed a draw toward the top of the climb.

So here I am, gearing up as quick as I can to flash up this 5.8 so i can get soem "Booty Gear". I got up there and almost missed it, I can't understand why it was left, the climb was real easy adn you didn't even need that hanger in the placement.

One mans loss is another one's gain...MINE.

During the GiG2 here in Vantage, I decided to try out the heel-hook action on my new Madrock Sharks.

The shoes are still new, I have only wore them twice, and they hurt my toes, but I think I can get past that if I keep wearing them. They are a pretty cool shoe.

My family adn I were out driving on Sunday in March and wanted to see what the Park looked like. It is closed during the winter, but there was a couple of guys out making thier way from climb to climb.

This is one of our family pix that I wanted to put up on the site. This will be my new profile shot (I needed a new one). Hunter is almost 20 months old in this shot.

This is a shot of the Rock from Forest Service Road #618. Down below the Tree Line is where I think most of the climbs are, down below the big Yellow face on the left hand side of the pic.

Here is a different shot of the fist image. This is a little wider shot.

This was a very impressive rock to watch and look at.

Here is a shot of Wolf Rock as we were standing just below the rock on the Forest Service #15 road. From here, you are about 20 meters from the base. No visible climbing routes on this side.

My new goal is to check this area out more and learn about it and climb some of the established routes.

Here is our Adopted Belay buddy before his little nap on my bag.

I think those are Jules feet and she is probably looking for something to give the little pup. Her and Bobbi were droolin over her the whole morning.

Here is Russman starting off on Throbbing Gristle (5.9). Leejams had a hard time keepign up with me (so he claims) as he said I flew up this pitch. It is about a 20 Meter climb or so and Lee said I set a speed record on it:) Nice Belay Lee

In the foreground, you can see Mark roping up for the MuMu climb and jsut behind me you can see Kelly's red helmet as Jared is climbing the crack just tbehind me.

Here is Rocks4Jules on Justified Ascents of MuMu.

Way to go Jules...and nice color coordination:)

Here is Coyote_climber (soon to be a member here) on Hakuna Mata.

He was attempting to rescue all of the gear from Rollingstone and Leejams attempt of Chips and Dip, jsut beside him.

Unfortunatly, El Coyote had to also have one of his draws rescued by another climber as he could not figure out the crux.

Here are Jared and Corey up our first 2 climbs of Sunday morning. Jared was on Throbbing Gristle and Corey on Justified Ascents of MuMu.

Both were fun climbs and we worked about 9 climbers thru them both in a short period of time. BTW...that is my head in the blue stocking hat watchign Corey work his way thru the problem

Jared, (only the but view)with our first climb of the AM from the Sunday Central WA GIG. This was a long pumpy 5.9. 13 bolts to the top and man is it a ways up there. What a fun little climb.

Kmunderground is belaying Jared while Coreyr is getting some more gear from Rocks4Jules before he gets to the start of his first lead of the day.

This cute little puppy decided to take a little nap on my clcimbign bag while I was belaying Coreyr on the Justified Actents of MuMu.

I added this pic for Jules and Bobbi...they both wanted to put her into our bags and take her home.

This is N8's girlfriend Alex. This was the first time she had ever tried to do any climbing (except at the fair). She was wearing her Tennis shoes too...and still made the climb.

This was the first time Bobbi climbed outside. She climbed this .7 and a .5 on her first attempts. The only problem was the wind that hampered us the whole day.

At Frenchmans Coulee, N8 took the pic with our camera.

Here I am trying to slap onto the big jug just out of my reach on the Oblong Lounge Route. Needless to say, I never made the slap stick:)

Here is Bobbi's frist try at Bouldering Outside. Here she is on the start of Drill Team.

Here is a pic of me on a mixed combination of Drill Team and First Timer.

Fun little boulder...about 25' off the deck when you get to the top

Right off the bat, Monday AM; Krusty jumped on 5 Gal and Rickon 9 Gal buckets for the first leads of the day.

This was the first lead that Rick had done in almost a year. Did very good all day.