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Ha ha! This was our last night of the trip. We are so haggard; except my awesome sweater from the Jacson Hole thrift store.

Trip: Wind River Range - Pingora Wolfs Head Haystack Date: 6/15/2012 Trip Report: The day after I finished my finals in school, I jumped in a car with three fellow dirtbags and we began our long travel to The Wind River Range in Wyoming. As we were buying Deet and bug nets at the local climbing store in Pinedale we were surprised to heard that no one reported climbing in the Winds yet this year. We were stoked to learn that we would be kicking off the season in the Winds. Opening Blake's article in this months Rock And Ice I showed the locals where we were traveling from and told the dudes we would give them a condition report when we returned to civilization. Snow travel was perfect, bugs were not a problem and there was almost no one up there. All the routes we climbed I consider truly classic and we overly impressed. It's worth the drive i promise you. Every day in the alpine is like being awake in a dream; I am so thankful that i have such amazing partners to share the memories with. Routes: South Buttress and Northeast face of Pingora, East Ridge of Wolfs Head, Minor Dihedral on Haystack Approach Notes: Snow was very minimal and easy to travel.

Hell yeah dudes! Way to keep pushing the Enchantments into the new generation. As soon as the weather clears up I will have to go check this one out. I like how the route meets up with the final, super cool, ridge section of Acid Baby. The views from "Aasgard Sentinal or Spineless Prow" are amazing. Looks like another new school classic Thanks Blake, Scott and Graham.

Way to get after it!! I'm glad that your memory card was not damaged, so you could add to the CC stoke. That route looks so amazing I for sure need to do it next year!

Yes there is snow the whole way on NBC. In fact I saw a bad ass skiing it on Monday!

Dana! I was stoked to meet you guys on such a spectacular day. Way to get after it!! Hopefully I will be seeing you around. Layton: the route is a classic for sure. Thanks for finding this gem. The fourth to last pic is of Dragontail from Acid Baby. Not sure what route that would be.

Trip: Colchuck Lake - North Buttress Couloir - Acid Baby Date: 5/27/2012 Trip Report: Wow. Climbing has been providing me with experiences that words really can not capture. I am so thankful to have such inspirational people and amazing landscapes around me everyday. On Saturday I got to the trail head at 6am and started moving. I was considering doing The North Buttress Couloir or Colchuck Glacier; this was my first steep snow climb, so I wanted to feel out my options first. Once I arrived at the lake the snow was so perfect, I knew I was doing NBC. Deciding to travel light made the entire outing really fun. I ended up making back to my car just after 12pm. What a good morning. Asgaurd pass Beta On Monday Grant showed up to my house at 6am; Stoke was super high to get on this Leavenworth classic. Acid baby is an amazing route that provides EVERYTHING in the way of a fun climbing adventure. The route is almost completely dry and snow provides a super fast decent. I consider it to be my favorite climb so far. We walked across the lake on our decent and I DO NOT suggest this beta at all! Gear Notes: NBC: Pickets and rock gear would work great for a running belay or simu-climb. Acid Baby: Doubles from Blue alien to #3 Camalot and a 60 meter worked great. Approach Notes: to avoid post-holing travel in early morning. To cross Asguard pass without crampons wait tell later in the day.

YA man i was just about to make this post myself. Have fun down in Chile dude! I WANT TO SEE SOME MORE TRIP REPORTS ON THE MOLE IN THE COMING WEEKS! CONDITIONS ARE STILL PERFECT FOR FAST SNOW TRAVEL.

You guys are so inspiring, thanks for all your commitment and work in our local climbing community Sol and Jens!

DUDE!! mtep you and your partner must have had a blast! i might have more pics of you on Der Sportsman i can send

We approched from the Snowcreek trail head

Trip: Prusik Peak - West Ridge, Burgner/Stanley and Solid Gold Date: 5/11/2012 Trip Report: Crazy ideas were flying around earlier this week about an early season hit of Stanley/Burgner. This would be my first three day weekend from school all quarter. A perfect weather window solidified these dreams into reality. Sometimes in life we are just in the right place at the right time. As far as first alpine experiences go, I could not have dreamt of anything better. The weather, my partners and the days of the Prusik Peak to ourselves all made for a life changing experience. We only intended on climbing the Stanley/Burgner route, but as soon as we got up there on friday we had to run up the West Ridge. Satrday we enjoyed Stanley/Burgner and on sunday we jumped on Solid Gold before hiking out. A weekend well spent. Gear Notes: A party of three: two 60 meter ropes, a douple rack of camalots to 4, Metolius TCUs and small Aliens. Approach Notes: Travel was amazingly fast. Post holling will become more of a propblem as the temps creep up.

Trip: Red Rocks, Zion, Capital Reef, Indian Creek, Moab - Date: 11/2/2011 Trip Report: For the majority of Rocktober my buddy Eric and I took an amazing road trip around the beautiful dessert southwest. We accumulated about 60 trad pitches, atleast 10 sport routes and few bolder problems.. Man i love rock climbing. Im not going to get into much more detail but here are some pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/69342015@N03/?donelayout=1

I am planning a trip to Spokane this week and planing on maybe camping a night somewhere near by and doing climbing. Could anyone suggest some of the better 5.10s and 11- sport climbs in the area? and possibly camping?