2011 in 10 Minutes - My Year in Photos

[Dannible]

It was a good year for me. Sacrificed quantity of climbing for quality. Hung out in some neat places, and met some good people along the way. These do not cover every climb. I need to get better at getting pictures from my partners.

 

Dragontail NW Face:

 

 

My headlamp broke two pitches below the summit, in a storm, and I couldn't put my balaclava on right while belaying.

 

Colchuck:

 

 

 

 

Pickets:

 

 

 

 

 

Denali:

 

My buddy Matt learning to ice climb at home, in rubber boots. Sorry about not rotating the picture.

 

The Ruth. Jens is on the far left and next to him is the great George Lowe.

 

Aaron drinking stout with British climbers, from a pony keg donated by Irish skiers.

 

11,300

 

 

 

Aaron brewing up before bailing on Dan Beard:

 

Me, too hot and dehydrated to be having fun on The Stump.

 

Graham on LA Express (Snoqualmie) or something.

 

I gave up the best part of the PNW summer to make some money, but saw some neat stuff:

 

 

[Tyson.g]

Great shots Dan! Thanks for sharing.

[sobo]

That one with the avy going off behind the climber is pretty damned cool. So's the one with the cougar. Rawr!

[dougd]

I dibs the bobcat square when the pool starts...

 

Very cool pic.

 

d

[fgw]

a good year for getting out & seeing what else there is to climb. put another 50k miles on the car...sorry about the format but i either have this size pic's or thumbnails

 

some desert stuff early on, like this streaker spire in sedona (hardest 5.7 I've sampled to date):

 

scared the shit out of ourselves with another quick in/out to stone mtn in NC:

 

some local fun

 

couple red rock outings...

 

...culminating with resolution arete

 

got out to BC for the first time

 

& gimli's s ridge was the highpoint:

 

yak check was also pretty good though:

 

failed many times in the sawtooths this year incl getting rained off splitgerber march

 

& slavaged that trip with a quick in/out to montana:

 

finally did Beckey direct (hard & not so very cleanly done...)

 

got our first taste of climbing outside of the western world in Madagascar:

 

hard climbing (for us) & sparse bolting ( a paradise for those climbing 11+)...pretty stressful

 

but beautiful for sure:

 

went to potrero chico for the 1st time & got some multi-pitch - like tsaranoro except with 2-3X bolt density & endless

 

bucket of 5.10ish routes

 

stuff we reminisce most fondly about is probably things we did with friedns, eg rooster post work, l-worth,

 

small red rocks routes. must be getting old as good company is as important as climbing it seems.

 

[dougd]

must be getting old as good company is as important as climbing it seems.

 

Me too.

 

Thanks for sharing the pics. Looks like a good year.

 

So, the lemur was just out walking around? He looks incredulous, and menacing all at once!

 

d

[tvashtarkatena]

Saweeeeet.

[BootsandPants]

While not as impressive as some of the other stuff you guys have done (which is awesome by the way!), it was my first real year of climbing here in the Cascades. Volumes of knowledge were learned, and a ton of fun and great memories were had.

 

2011 started off with a ton of skiing in the backcountry, and ski instructing at Stevens

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After it was time to climb. A kegger at camp Muir was a good start

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Got quite lucky to spend three weekends in the Enchantments

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...and got some sweet booty gear while we were at it

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Spent some time in the Entiat mountains

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and ate friend chicken on the summits

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Spent some time learning some ice climbing basics on Baker

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Got to check out Washington Pass and the wine spires for the first time, and climb a few things there too

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Was also able to climb at Vantage for the first time

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And now that the snow is falling, getting on some steep snow, ice and mixed routes

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All in all, it was a great year! While nothing went terribly wrong, I didn't make it out without a few injuries and a few long days

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But had a good time with great friends in great places

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Here's to an even better 2012!

[SeanO]

Awesome pictures everyone, and thanks for sharing!

[dougd]

and ski instructing at Stevens

 

Man, I coulda used some of that...

 

d

[tvashtarkatena]

If that's just your first year here I'd say you've pretty much got the hang of it.

Edited January 6, 2012 by tvashtarkatena

[throwdown]

Nice shots, it has been a good year!

[curtveld]

Wow, some pretty spectacular stuff, all! Dannible, fgw and Boots - would love to see some TRs from these trips...hear the stories...hint, hint. It's never too late.

[curtveld]

Boots, where was the shot right above the one with the wine box - Paisano?

[BootsandPants]

Boots, where was the shot right above the one with the wine box - Paisano?

 

Yep, I think it's the pitch 6 belay on Paisano. That was a fun pitch too and I'm glad it was my lead. I liked how the picture (taken by the guys a pitch behind us) captures my belayer's utter boredom as I'm leading. I'll have to try to kick rocks down on him next time to keep him awake

[ivan]

fucking bandit - great concept (wine by the liter, and in container perfect for the outback), shitty execution (tastes like ass)! they need to try a burgundy perhaps, who can fuck that up?

[fgw]

Wow, some pretty spectacular stuff, all! Dannible, fgw and Boots - would love to see some TRs from these trips...hear the stories...hint, hint. It's never too late.

thanks for good words. been wasting time on a blog (tr's): chossclimbers

[Pete_H]

Boots, where was the shot right above the one with the wine box - Paisano?

 

And what peak is that in the pic above the fried chicken shot?

[BootsandPants]

fucking bandit - great concept (wine by the liter, and in container perfect for the outback), shitty execution (tastes like ass)! they need to try a burgundy perhaps, who can fuck that up?

 

I didn't think the cab sauv was too bad actually, although it could have just been that I was tired and anything would taste good. Haven't tried any of their other ones though.

[BootsandPants]

And what peak is that in the pic above the fried chicken shot?

 

Mt. Maude's north face. We had climbed it the weekend before the picture was taken and you could just make out our line from the summit of Fernow, which I thought was cool.

[Pete_H]

Cool. Nice lookin ski line.