Afternoon Exploration

A few pics from the brotherman...out on a midweek exploration mission...wish I could been out there too...hopefully I can remedy that soon....

Quite the squeeze roof!

Cheers!

The Narwhal

Headed out on Saturday with Odenbeck to meet up with Hutch over at Resort Rocks. I've only kicked around there a couple times, so we went on a walk about while waiting for Hutch. Some decent potential out there, and about 8 new problems...including a very nice arete that Patrick nabbed.
   We then went on the hunt for the Narwhal, a boulder that Hutch had stumbled upon a few weeks back...a truly wild feature, a large horizontal jutting roof dagger around 15' long. Something pretty unique in the land of slabs. The hike up to it was a bit long, but worth it. Currently it sits in an undeveloped zone, but as usual, the hillside is packed with fins and potential.




Music is from the new the Scott H Biram album...SHB also happens to be rolling through Missoula on the 12th to play the Palace with Joe Buck Yourself....might have to make my way over to the zoo for that one...

Cheers!

Iso weekend finale'

A lot of activity happened over the weekend at the Iso's and surrounding area. I didn't get out much, but the kids and I met Andrew, Zana, and Sam for some pulling during the oft-chilly Sunday afternoon. Some captures of our exploits:



Small pebble, smaller pebbles on face--Lyddie pic



Great kiddie OW--the snow flakes made it "out of condition" :-)



Sit-start arching finger crack--short but superb



Ladd pulling on the most knobulous face I have seen yet in the 'Lith



Last boulder of the day before heading home--I climbed the right/white line on it to top, main face yet to be sent. Great shot by Lyddie.

Trailer Daze

February was a pretty quiet month for me. With the boss out of the country, I had some time to pull out the trailer and hang in the Boulder Batholith. While we've encountered a wetter winter than usual, thankfully the psych has been at great levels. Lots of exploring, new finds, climbing, scoping and fun was had...and we're getting ready to finish off the month right by heading out for this weekend. Should be a great time.

Here's some pics from over the last month, a handful being taken by my good friend Brian Hayes check him out at: http://www.flickr.com/people/fotohayes/


Home Sweet Home


cleaning top outs






techie OW


Lights of Butte




My favorite bar in Butte, The Freeway Tavern




Birthday Crack


proj...


New problem in the Druthers




Got to see Scott H Biram down at the Filling Station...great show!








Snow hindered a send, but Pat will cruise in better conditions...really cool line!


They Dance Alone...Dwight Bishop's hardest sport route?




Exploring the 'ice caves' and tight canyons of Tony's




New find in the Trailer Boulders


Maybe I'll see you out there?

Cheers!

Tom

Weekend Whiteout

No, not the sniffing kind--the cold and blustery stuff.



Hardcore K-bros climbing weather


Coming off the hill after being "over" the weather--next stop, the Desert...



Once we headed from the Resorts to the Desert, dryer rock not hit by the mini-storm was located.



Pat, pebble project progressing...



Tom and Lyddie eyeing the future



Back in the warm confines Tom's camp trailer

Keeping the stoke goin'

To give another perspective of a fine pebble...




What wideness waits in the wings?



Can it get better?

A Rock Resorts Re-visit

Tom and Ron ventured over the big hill, after leaving the trailer stashed in the Batholith, and had a little afternoon time to check out the bouldering and wide at Rock Resorts--one of the drier venues to climb this month. Some photos of the day:


Nice warm-up crack




Coral Island and Grand Illusions spires



Future OW project


Side-view of OW proj, showing the steepness of the wide



The only climbing shot of the day--Ron testing a way-harder -than-it-looks crack:-)