It brings a lark to your hand

Weekend

September 27, 2011 at 8:56 am | Posted in Life, Mountains, Skiing | Leave a comment

Autumn’s here; we spent a relaxed weekend enjoying it.

Getting out with the Partner was a pleasure.

Ski smiles all around.

Autumn in Washington.

Racing at the beach.

JJ turned Ten!

It was two weeks ago, but there’s so much eye candy in that virtual roll of film….

Eldorado on fire (click for slightly bigger).

Retrospective

August 29, 2011 at 7:17 pm | Posted in Life, Mountains | 1 Comment

Been busy, lots of photos, but not much time to put them up. Black and white edits well on my laptop. Color doesn’t. Here are a few from the past month.

Capitol Peak

Viewed from some projections, the spherical cow approximation is fairly accurate.

Boy getting it done.

Tiny jointing; field of view is ~6-8″ across.

Komo Kulshan.

Downclimb

August 5, 2011 at 12:04 am | Posted in Mountains | Leave a comment

Up a rib, down a gully. Repeat. She’s speedy.

Textile

July 27, 2011 at 11:33 pm | Posted in Climbing | Leave a comment

Got Blood?

Intended

July 24, 2011 at 10:51 pm | Posted in Mountains | Leave a comment

The plan was to solo a line I’ve wanted for years, but some friendships run deeper than ambition. Need to find a way to fly again before this season passes by.

It’s in; the exit I want is even in (and it never is). Humph.

Tahoma

June 13, 2011 at 10:16 am | Posted in Mountains, Skiing | Leave a comment

Listened to my gut and stayed low. The fearless three found their way toward heaven and came home again.

FOMO

June 10, 2011 at 8:55 pm | Posted in Mountains | Leave a comment

BOHICA.

Snowpack

June 4, 2011 at 1:48 pm | Posted in Life | Leave a comment

A friend’s running Western States again this year, so here’s the snowpack plot again, updated for this year. It’ll be updated again if I remember/he asks me to…