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It was a really long drive of a lot of open space.
There were a lot of cool sandstone arches and other...
Looked like something fun to climb. Right off the road too!
Shot from a different angle.
Another interesting rock formation.
Looks like a great splitter crack! Too bad it's probably...
We stop to fill up with gas, and also fill the jerry can...
Joel fixing the fuel can to the roof.
Closest we came to fourth of July: 3rd of July fireworks...
While Joel, Turtle and I were in transit, Andy and...
As soon as we headed out, the wind picked up...
Juniper berries! This is what they flavor gin with. I...
The canyon we decided to descend into. In retrospect I'm...
Joel and Turtle, hiking under an ominous sky.
Neat little sandstone formations.
Joel and Turtle, hiking around some obstacles.
I have no idea how this rock is staying here. Looks like...
Joel and Turtle.
Turtle. I don't know she keeps those pants so clean.
Fun slide without water.
Joel trying to keep his toes dry.
Turtle on the dry water slide.
Joel and Turtle trying to keep their feet out of the muck.
More full body bridging.
Joel exploring a more difficult way.
Neat potholes. Would be pretty to see this canyon with water.
Turtle, in a narrow section.
I don't know what causes these "tire tread" patterns in...
Canyon gets narrower.
Joel.
I think that was a mouse. I like canyons with flowing...
Don't take a swim with Mr. Mouse!
Turtle, as the canyon starts to slot up again.
Red white and blue rocks. Happy Fourth Of July!
Joel and Turtle.
Turtle and Joel moving sideways through a narrow sandy slot.
Big spider! (Look carefully.) I think this is a harvest...
Just a short hike! Then back uphill to camp.
Back in the sunshine, on Navajo slickrock.
I feel bad I took this route. I was trying to contour to...
Our canyon, and a tributary that joined from the left....
Joel and Turtle hiking along. Way in the distance before...
I lost my hat. It was really windy. I'm glad it didn't...
Doesn't this kind of look like a man, with a tree stuck...
Neat sedimentary rock.
Mystery fruit. We picked a couple and kept them in the...
Happy Fourth Of July. No USA this year. Just a star.
And a circle. What can we say? It was a long day.
Day two started off with a bang: a 270+ foot rappel into...
There is no way I could get far enough away to record...
Andy working his way down to the canyon floor 270 feet below.
Andy, pausing on rappel to sort something out with the ropes.
Joel used a foam pad to protect the rope from wearing on...
Meredith, part way down.
That's Turtle's head up there! View from the bottom.
Turtle on rappel.
Turtle at the bottom.
It's important to unrig quickly and the descender gets...
Sun flare! Joel.
The rock quality was very poor.
Meredith finding a way to move down canyon. Joel below.
It was very, very hot and dry with almost no shade.
Turtle body bridging.
A hairy armpit spider-ball. These were all over the...
Close-up of Harvest Man spider ball.
Joel and Turtle marching through a wide section of canyon.
Andy found a horse, or maybe a bull to ride.
Andy riding his bull.
I thought the different types of light in this section...
Meredith (Joel in the background).
A narrow sandy slot.
A big, fat lizard.
The crew hiking downstream with the Escalante drainage...
A wide wash where we would try to find an exit, rather...
Stopping for lunch. Not a whole lot of shade. And it was...
Hiking back to the car.
Almost back to the car: the crew gazes into the maw...
So, the next morning, we set out on an overnight to see...
Descending down the Navajo slickrock. Improbably enough,...
Entering the Glen Canyon National Rifle Association. Oh...
Seven in the morning and it's already really hot.
Trying to figure out which way to go and taking note of...
Trying to find a way to the bottom of the canyon system....
So amazing how the scenery changes! Just an hour ago, we...
Andy, cooling his heels in the Escalante River.
Joel and Turtle walking in the Escalante. The trail...
For some reason, these deer flies really liked Turtle.
Crossing the Escalante.
The river felt pretty nice actually. It is definitely...
Some 19th century petroglyphs depicting cowboys...
Having dropped our packs at camp, our plan was to hike...
Joel and Turtle, hiking up in the 11am heat.
Looking in at Neon Canyon from an overlook.
Trudging uphill in the hot sun. No shade anywhere....
Andy and Turtle find a stick bug. You know, one of those...
Stick bug!
Whoa! Crypto! Otherwise known as cryptobiotic soil, "a...
Close up of cryptobiotic soil.
Neon Canyon below us.
Andy, Turtle and Joel hiking up river.
Hey there buddy! I think he (she?) is defending her...
Very pretty markings on this lizard - reminded me of an...
Eying me warily before disappearing into his home. He...
One more shot of the lizard. Maybe he was a Great Basin...
I guess these guys are all over! Turtle spots another one.
Same species for sure. Maybe a 1/4 mile down the trail...
Andy, Joel and Turtle hiking in the distance.
This next part of the hike was like walking in a solar...
Precariously balanced rock.
Andy, with Neon Canyon.
Scouting possible entry points.
It's deep! We were initially apprehensive our rope...
On the canyon floor.
The team pulls the rope down.
Starting to wander downstream in Neon Canyon. Kind of...
Looks kind of like a subway tube.
Here you have two options: 1. Stem / body bridge and...
Turtle, Joel and Andy in Upper Neon Canyon.
Andy, downclimbing past an obstacle.
Ugh. Frog soup.
Joel handing down Andy's pack.
It was really hot that day. Staying in the shade as best we can.
Beautiful section of narrows.
But then it soon got wide and sunny again.
Andy walking through a wider section.
Strange mud formation caused by daily evaporation...
Andy and Joel and Turtle in upper Neon.
Andy, staying out of the drink.
Circumventing a cold and smelly looking pool. Joel gives...
Success!
Some pools were unavoidable. Joel jumps into a pool with...
Swimming out of one of many smelly pools. It was nice to...
Partial subway of Neon Canyon.
Turtle and Joel staying high and in the sun to avoid the...
Can't see it here but there's a 15-20 foot deep channel...
Turtle on landing.
Andy in Neon Canyon.
We came to a branch in the canyon (it seems canyons do...
Joel and Turtle, relaxing for a bit.
Food and water break.
Joel swimming with a dead bird.
Climbing through an awkward section that was both narrow...
Pretty red, white and blue rocks
Joel in a section of narrows.
Joel, again.
Bright green moss growing directly on the sandstone canyon wall.
Time to get wet again.
Andy, utilizing some rock climbing skills to get up to a...
Setting up a rappel on a fixed line to avoid the keeper pothole.
Joel drops in below the big pothole with the dead hawk in it.
Andy on rappel.
Turtle on rappel.
Looking back up canyon.
Mr. Dead Raven.
More puddles. So funny that a few hours ago we were on...
Finally a little bit of sunshine!
And then back into the shade.
Andy does his best to warm up by lying on a sunny rock wall.
Andy on rappel.
Next up was a rather complicated maneuver: a guided...
Next step was for Joel to take one end of the rope...
While not strictly necessary, it was a bit more fun and...
Turtle crosses the pool. It was flat enough that...
Almost all the way across!
Victory!
Next up: Andy on the zip line.
Turtle sits on Joel to provide an extra measure of...
Andy crossing the pool.
Uh oh. What's this? So apparently we made a mistake...
Going the other direction is a bit harder since there is...
Getting closer.
And closer.
And closer still.
Almost there!
I had to pass a knot, since the rigging had moved somewhat.
Working to pass the knot. I used redundant daisy chains...
Finding away to unweight my rigging so I could pass the...
Basically there at this point.
Almost able to reach with my feet.
From here it's easy.
Tada.
Rigging the rope properly.
Re-rigged, it's time to come back.
Back on the right side.
Pulling the rope down, the right way this time.
Dropping through the double "bomb bay" doors into the...
Sorting our gear, resting and snacking in the glorious...
From here it was just a pleasant half mile hike back to...
Scenery as we walk back to camp.
We were pretty tired, and so we all managed to cook...
At this point, we had decided to bail on Choprock Canyon...
Beautiful morning sunlight in Lower Neon Canyon.
Joel, on the hike back to the car.
We had plenty of time on the way back, so we decided to...
Andy and Joel study some Native American petroglyphs.
Petroglyphs between Neon and Choprock on the Escalante.
19th century tagging. Hall 1881.
Cowboys fighting.
Admiring the petroglyphs.
On our hike out through the Escalante, I spot a big...
Turtle and Joel hike back through the Escalante River.
Turtle and Joel - Joel helps Turtle through a murky deep...
Andy finds some shade and stops for a break.
Hiking back up onto the Egypt Bench at high noon. It was...
Hiking up to the Egypt Bench. Joel and Turtle.
More of those mystery fruit agave plants that have red...
Cool looking burnt out tree.
Andy. Motivated by the fact that there is a cooler with...
Turtle and Joel.
Turtle and Joel, walking by that same National Rifle...
Hiking up the slickrock and moki steps onto the Egypt Bench.
Can you spot Joel and Turtle?
Return to vehicles.
Turtle's melted shoe.
That evening, we drove out to the main road, got showers...
We left Joel's vehicle at this trailhead and drove...
We left our car in a rather remote spot and started...
Andy, using his GPS to figure out where we are, exactly.
"I guess we're supposed to go down there" says Joel.
But how?
Eventually we found a way.
This canyon's challenge is its narrowness. Although the...
Joel, staying high.
Turtle and Joel.
Turtle watches Andy on a short rappel.
A neat little alcove.
Pictures of people taking pictures.
Squeezing into a particularly tight section. It didn't...
Andy in a section of dark, sandy narrows.
Joel and Turtle. At least it was wide enough here to wear a pack.
Slightly less wide now. Time to take off the pack.
Very narrow.
Even narrower.
The parts that leaned over felt the most awkward and...
Joel, staying high and in the sun.
Definitely some fresh air below. It was far too narrow...
Turtle.
This part you could take the high road or the low road.
Joel, half-body bridging.
Turtle in one of the deep narrow sections.
Staying out of the tiny slot.
Stopping at a rappel station.
Joel just having fun.
Self portrait. My beard is getting long. The trip must...
A lizard!
Another self portrait.
Andy, navigating some boulders in Boss Hog Canyon.
Just when we thought it couldn't get more narrow... this...
Pretty slot canyon.
Maybe this is where I ripped my pants. The sandstone was...
The slot starts to open up....
Andy staying cool in the noon-day sun.
Finally the canyon opened up, giving us the full blast...
Leaving the narrows of Boss Hog Canyon.
The team is looking a little overheated.
Afternoon thunderheads starting to form in the background.
Despite the heat, there were some toads hiding in the...
We found a shady spot to enjoy a little rest and a snack.
The last part of our hike ended up being in the desert heat.
One cool thing we did see were lots of rock badger burrows.
Hiking in a relative oasis in the sweltering heat.
Back to the car! Bridge picture for Catherine.
Blasphemy! What could they be talking about. The world...
Driving back to retrieve our approach vehicle.
Pretty lame store / gift shop inside a mountain.
Our campsite, at a place called the Irish Canyon...
Getting ready for an hour long romp through Lucky Charms...
Andy in a beautiful narrows section.
Andy climbing up a sloping section.
Andy turns around to help Joel and Turtle.
An Aaron Ralston stone.
Andy and Turtle.
Neat looking piece of tumbleweed!
Staying high.
Very smooth but textured rock.
Andy climbs a 25 foot dry fall.
Andy sitting near the top of Lucky Charms canyon.
Turtle climbs up.
Joel does the same.
Joel observes the world below. The road is where our car is.
Going back down a different canyon.
Walking back to the car.
Lots of little bugs here. Time to get out of dodge.
All of Joel and Turtle's crates got plastered with bugs...
Sorting the cars for the trip(s) home. Joel and Turtle...
Joel trying to pour the extra fuel he bought into his tank.
Oops.
Lots of bugs.
Old washing machine at a cafe in Hanksville turned into...
Lots of big domestic trucks here.
Driving through Capital Reef National Park on the way home.
A better shot of one of the features in Capital Reef NP.
First view of amphitheatre at Bryce
Close-up of a grotto which will probably develop into a...
Some more grotto area
Another view of the first amphitheatre
It really was chilly that morning. We had left...
Looking down into some of the rock formations
Colors are supposedly most spectacular at sunrise and...
There are trails under the rim, and also from the valleys below.
View into the same valley and the farm land below.
We decided this sort of looked like the Sphinx.
Tall growing manzanita at the top of the road which goes...
View from the top. Ebeneezer Bryce, who farmed just...
I suppose this should have preceded the photo taken from...
Annie soaking up the southwestern sunshine with a...
Now we have his attention. These ravens were plentiful,...
One of the many natural arches in Bryce. Supposedly you...
A more impressive view.
Looking back toward Bryce from the area just East of it.
The 1950 era convertibles parked in the lot of the...
All set for tonight's show. If you rent a trailer for...
Some other tourists had stopped to gawk. This spot is...
More cars and the refreshment stand being photographed.
Dad really liked this place. Who can identify the year...
One of the typical Airstreams for rent for the night. ...
The owner finds them, restores them, and then rents them out.
Off the beaten path (Route 12) and heading south on...
More of the HooDoo's which were just scattered around...
More of the same
Anie and Peter exploring the area
A pair
A close up of four friends.
And a fellow all by himself
And another fellow off by himself
Close up .... what does he look like?
Meg and her friends.
More of the same
Maybe they were all connected at one time?
Still exploring
More of the structures that were once attached.
View off to the west
Dirt road into Capitol Reef NP on one of the view...
If you lived here, you just have to study geology. Why...
... And over here something different
.. and exactly how did all these holes happen?
And did a big circular chunk slide off?
I found Capitol Reef NP a little known gem. Dirt road...
Annie taking a closer look at the formations
This was down on a side road (also dirt), off the main dirt road
Lots of hiking opportunities
Including some on flat land, which is what we did
Heading down the path
Heading down the path vertically
At one point there was an auto road through here, so we were told
Early traveler grafitti ... something from 1883 if it is...
South of Capitol Reef, having passed through Hanksville...
Very barren land
Detour to Natural Bridges National Monument. One is...
Also at Natural Bridges, showing the path down to the...
South of Natural Bridges, a road called the Moki Dugway
Great sign of Highway Bingo .... paved road ends, dirt ahead
The beginning of the Moki Dugway .... it drops off a...
To the left is the road we are coming down; below is...
Looking back on our path
Seeing the switch packs cut into the side of the cliff
We started on the top of this thing
Almost at the bottom, and on to Mexican Hat
The next morning (Mexican Hat was not recorded), as we...
Some of the typical "mitten" formations
Why oh why didn't I study geology!
Monica at the base of Tube Steaks Tomorrow (5.10+) on...
April on belay. It was so hot on Friday we did anything...
Monica climbing Tube Steaks Tomorrow.
Monica climbing an unnamed 5.10 next to Tube Steaks Tomorrow.
Looking up at several hundred feet of Wingate sandstone.
View from our perch at the base of Second Meat Wall.
Monica on an unnamed 5.10 next to Tube Steaks Tomorrow.
Lying back.
The route involved jamming hands and fists into a...
Monica, grabbing for a rare jug in Indian Creek.
Reaching high for the next hold.
At the crux move.
Jay and Monica hiking the trail back to the car...
A desert cactus flower in bloom.
With April's feet for scale.
Another desert flower.
Second Meat Wall and April, on the hike back to the car.
The next morning: South Six Shooter Peak, taken from the...
Monica climbing the climb that started it all. The aptly...
"Luxury Liner" is a splitter 3" fissure that drops like...
Clearly visible from the road, it beckons and begs to be...
Closeup of Monica. The challenge of this crack is its...
Monica belaying while John wrestles with the awkward and...
Then the fun begins.
The crack starts as narrow hands but soon widens to very...
Pulling the small roof on Luxury Liner.
Wide hands forever. I could sink my arms up to the elbow...
Esteban climbing Luxury Liner for the second time... it...
Throwing a leg out for balance.
A petroglyph and somebody's tag.
One of our cams got stuck and Estaban wrestled with it...
Monica taking photos while I'm taking photos.
Mutual photography.
There seems to be a tradition of finding a loose piece...
Coyne Crack, which looked like a lot of fun but we were...
Monica posing at the base of Coyne Crack... perfect 5.11...
Coyne Crack.
April, ready to lead a 5.9+ unnamed route in Donnelly Canyon.
April, placing gear.
A cute caterpillar crawled onto April's rope.
The drive back to camp.
Group shot. North and South Six Shooter Peaks visible in...
Colors kept getting better and better.
North and South Six Shooter.
Cryptobiotic soil!
More desert flowers. The desert was really in full bloom!
Hiking back to Second Meat Wall on our last day. We had...
Monica at the base of Second Meat Wall.
And here we ran into Jay belaying David on a horrific...
Jay belaying David.
Jay with his spiffy new windbreaker.
North and South Six Shooters from up high.
John, about to bite into Top Sirloin, 5.11.
1" crack in a striking crimson corner for 110 feet, non-stop.
Scenery shot taken by Jay.
Oops.
Another scenery shot.
Slow but steady progress. What a workout!
Self portrait by Jay.
Indian Creek climbing still life.
John, about 3/4 the way up. It got a little easier...
Getting lowered.
Exhausted.
Jay, with much bigger hands than I have was up for a...
Cracks are often referred to by the size cam that can...
Monica comes wandering in from climbing the aptly named...
Jay chewing the fat on Top Sirloin.
Monica and her pile of cams.
John and Monica with the pile of gear we needed to...
Monica, on her first outdoor 5.11.
Monica showing the boys how it's done.
Monica finds an easy-to-miss foot chip to stem on and...
Past the bulge. Still not easy but past the worst of it.
Jay at the base of Top Sirloin. I think this is the...
April shows off her battle wound with Low Cholesterol,...
Monica putting the Top in Top Sirloin.
Finding another unique opportunity to rest.
Done at last... Monica on the way down.
First outdoor 5.11!
Showing off the hands. Monica climbed sans-athletic tape...
David the machine eats up Top Sirloin.
Monicas hands closer up. Not too bad!
Jay belaying David on Top Sirloin.
April climbing Low Cholesterol.
Monica, Jay, April and John back at the parking lot....
On the road to Bryce, you go through an area called Red...
Just a view along Route 12 in Utah on the way to Bryce
Also still along the road
Now we are in Bryce, looking into one of the amphitheatres.
And again
Not sure of why the different colors ... do understand...
Grottoes which will continue to erode to form hoodoos.
As Ebeneezer Bryce was quoted as saying: Hell of a...
Happy lady
Trouble with any of the hiking paths: they had down...
Enjoying Bryce
Have moved on to Capitol Reef. Like being at the bottom...
These holes, or at least similar ones in Monument...
This looked to be like a giant geode
Ah ... Paul starts the hike down the Grand Wash in...
Beats the hike up to the top of Cassidy Peak ... where...
One of the denizens in Capitol Reef
Moving on to Canyonlands. This is the north most...
The White Rim trail is mainly for mountain bikes. ...
Still at Island in the Sky
Must say it doesn't look very hospitable down there.
About to set off to see the Upheaval Dome, advertised as...
There it is behind me ... a collapsed dome ... and that...
Various theories as to what caused the collapse of the...
So here it is ... impressive. (Not)
A better view? Still not impressive
But at least I guess we can say we saw it
Another outlook point on the upper plateau
More of the White Rim trail
Pretty sure this is Shaffer Canyon overlook in Island in...
Definitely Shafer...
Don't know the name of this one. I believe it is in...
Will include it in the Canyonland series since it abuts it.
Either the Green or the Colorado River viewed from Dead...
Still at Dead Horse Point
We've seen this before
This place is huge ... and desloate
The three gossips, along the road in Arches Natl Park
I believe this was either the Organ or the Court House. ...
So then this is? I believe it's part of "Park Avenue"...
This must have had a name, but it escapes me. Any guesses?
These are the gossips again
Part of Park Avenue. Sorry about those campers
At the top, just right of center is what looked like the...
See it climbing out of the canyon?
Big pull off for "Balanced Rock". "Balanced Rock is one...
Now we see why it's called "arches"
A lot of the rocks in Arches were highly defined and led...
This is North Window Arch. You can see the stairs...
And now you're at the top
Can't figure out how we took this, as I'm pretty sure...
With Peter and me sitting in the shadow of the Arch
Now this one is South Window Arch ... so maybe this is...
Closing in on Afrida
Peter following Paul towards the south Window Arch
From certain view points you can see both.
More of the elephant herd. Front view on left; hind...
Looking back at south window arch
Get both of them
Different part of Arches, approaching Double Arch
There's a prairie dog guarding the entrance
And a mean looking guy with a turban on his head and a...
Getting closer to Double Arch
... and to the mean guy
Am I really getting closer? This sand is deep / hot /...
Some side points of interest
This is as close as I am getting. Is that South America...
Stuff in Arches was really spread out. Quite the...
How's that for an elephant??!! He even has a...
This is Inspiration Arch ... at quite a distance. The...
Inspiration Arch from a distance
Unnamed arch on the road south of Moab
Ditto
This is Newspaper Rock on the road into the Needles...
I see Santa in the middle right, riding one of the...
Lots of flat footed people? With six toes? I think it...
A bison or two, a skeleton, a snake or three
A pair of six-shooters. Should look familiar to those...
Some interesting formations in the Needles section ......
Found these forms fascinating
So took a lot of pictures of them
Left the Needles section via a Forest Service road up...
Love this shot. On the road from Monticello, somewhere...
We are on the road that will curve and take us down to...
Which will lead us down to Monument Valley
Brilliant flowers growing on the shady side of the cliff
This one is Sacred Datura. Poisonous and beautiful
The iconic shot of the buttes outside of Monument Valley.
On Monday morning we drove into Arches National Park....
View from the top of Owl Rock.
Monica sitting on the top of Owl Rock.
View of the parking/viewing area for Owl Rock from the...
Strange formations looking similar to Owl Rock to the Southeast.
Monica again.
Looking down, another climbing party had arrived and is...
Monica.
Monica again.
Monica on Rappel from Owl Rock -- sort of looks like is...
Owl Rock from the parking lot. The climbing route goes...
After that, we decided to take a short 1-2 hour hike...
Me during our hike.
Another big arch.
Hiking around the desert. More small towers.
After our hike, we drove over to Balanced Rock for a...
Balanced Rock and Off Balanced Rock.
After lunch, Monica and I drove back to the hairpin...
John and the 3 Penguins (far left). To access the climb...
3 Penguins viewed from the side: looking like 1 Penguin.
The route felt incredibly exposed right from the get-go:...
View from the base of the climb. I think we are in a lot...
Monica past the crux on pitch 1 of Right Chimney, Three Penguins.
Standing on top of the middle Penguin's head.
Fun summit.
One more.
One last one.
Monica on the head of the middle Penguin with the right...
View of the road from the top. Also the Lasal Mountains...
Hey look, you can see the silhouette of the Three...
Monica stacking the rope back at the feet of the...
Monica and Penguin The Right, fluffing its breast feathers.
On the hike back to the car across the narrow shelf.
John, posing with a fistful of large cams (for the off...
After Three Penguins, Monica and I decided we had had...
Impressive fin of Dewey Bridge (I think) sandstone layer.
Closer to it. Really liked the contrasting colors at...
More formations. Spotted a few anchor bolts on this...
Lightning bolt crack.
Monica and I agreed this sort of reminded us of a ship,...
Aid line straight up the center of this face.
Courthouse Rock.
Monica and the Three Gossips.
Courthouse Rock up close.
Looking back up Park Avenue.
Chockstone and the (almost) full moon.
Toward the end of our hike.
On the drive out from the park, we stopped below the...
On Tuesday morning, we woke up early in Moab, grabbed...
The hike in was amazing: the air was crisp and quite...
The approach was an impossibly steep and winding...
The views on the approach just got better and better....
Castleton Tower and Castle Valley to the right.
Top of Pitch 3 of Jah Man (5.10c) looking down to the...
Monica, having passed the crux 5.10+ traverse on Pitch...
Monica at the top of the 4th pitch of Jah Man, with...
View to the south from the summit of Sister Superior.
Monica, just a few feet below the rounded off summit of...
At the summit, looking north with the Colorado River...
Sort of couldn't take enough pictures up here.
We had run into another climbing party on the approach...
Not a bad place to ponder the yonder.
Looking east toward Professor Valley. See the small...
Lift-off!
View down over the edge, yikes! Our approach trail can...
Stefan and Brendan join us on top.
Enjoying the view.
Monica on rappel from the top of the tower. Check out...
Better shot of the calcite.
Back on (relatively) level ground: Sister Superior's...
Monica at the base of the climb ready to hike back down....
Looking at the path back down to where we had parked the car.
Monica and Sister Superior. We climbed up the face on...
Sister Superior again. Note the calcite varnish.
Wish I hadn't taken this one slightly crooked.
Monica leading the way.
Steep trail!
Colorado River.
Sister Superior Group with the Sister on the right.
Better view of where we climbed... you can kind of see a...
Monica.
Lots of cryptobiotic soil.
Checking out a cliff edge.
Monica.
Monica and Castleton Tower. Castleton Tower has several...
Sister Superior Group.
Some idiot driving a dune buggy through crypto.
Interesting mesa / formation near Castle Valley.
We made it back to the car! Sister Superior group is the...
John back at the car.
On the recommendation of our climber acquaintances from...
Fisher Towers and the almost full moon. Monica has much...
One more somewhat blurry shot right before sunset.
We were planning to just check out the towers before...
View of some of the more unbelievable formations at...
Moonrise over the the Towers
Well, here's Monica at 7am on what I promised her would...
Guess which one is Ancient Art.
Corkscrew summit!
Coming into slightly better view.
Monica heads up the approach trail.
Somehow I always take crooked pictures on hillsides.
Monica working through the 5.10d crux (or 5.6 A0) on pitch 1.
At the top of pitch 3: Monica sits at the belay looking...
Shot from higher up.
Monica gets ready to climb the corkscrew.
What a ridiculous rock!
Making the 5.9 move.
Making the 5.9 move again.
Cleaning some gear.
Victory!
Woo hoo!
Ok, what next?
Back at the base of the corkscrew, under the Eagle's Head.
After climbing Stolen Chimney, we stashed our climbing...
View of Castleton and Sister Superior in the distance.
Self portrait with Ancient Art in the background.
Monica with the Titan in the background. Apparently this...
Monica hiking among the Fisher Towers.
Castleton Tower in the distance.
John hiking at Fisher Towers.
One more shot.
Clearly the fossilized remains of an ancient alien...
The Titan?
Colorado River in the distance.
Monica, toward the end (turning around point) of our hike.
Colorado River in the distance.
Looking down a canyon near Fisher Towers.
Tree clinging to a few rocks to survive.
The spiral summit of Ancient Art.
Parting Shot of Fisher Towers
Diagram of sandstone layers northwest of Moab, UT.
Monica in front of the Monitor and the Merrimack, two...
The Lasal Mountains on the way to Dead Horse Point.
Fracking!