Thursday, October 3, 2013

Dirty Little Secret

So I was looking at this 500' line for two years wondering if it would go on the thin stretch of decent rock between the dirt:




It took a few days of work with a lot of cleaning but eventually we made Dirty Little Secret, 4 pitches, 6a+.  It's about 10 minutes walking from my house plus maybe twenty minutes walking uphill to the base from the trail.
















Friday, September 20, 2013

Feliz Cumpleanos


AnnaMaria has turned seven.  Here are a few photos of this event.























Wednesday, September 18, 2013

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Gregg Biesly, Robert Rauch and I went to Tortoral Pampa to try a new ice route.  We climbed The Itsy Bitsy Spider (V, WI4, M4, 1000m) which lies pretty much dead center and tops out near 18,000':


We left La Paz after I dropped AnnaMaria at school.  Illimani on the way there:


A pleasantly uneventful 2.5 hour drive brought us to a place where we could leave the car at about 15,000':