http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:07:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Colin Haley and I boarded a plane much to early this morning and set off on hopefully what will be a great trip to the rarely visited Stikine Icecap in Southeastern Alaska.    Our main objective will be a climb on the Devils Thumb, which is most famous for it's ... http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=384 THE GIRLS CRUSHED ANOTHER  HUGE ROCK!!! On June 21st Kate and Madaleine started up El cap with their eyes set on making a free ascent of the mega-classic Freerider.  This is no easy task.  El cap has probably been free climbed by  less that 100 people and only by 3 American ... http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=376 [caption id="attachment_370" align="aligncenter" width="544" caption=" "][/caption] I was surprised to say the least when I heard from the editors at Patagonia that they had selected a photo of mine for the cover.  I'd almost gotten the cover a couple other times but at the final creative meetings it had always been ... http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=368 Patagonia recently updated the Tinshed and inside they are presenting a video I shot and produced.   This was my first video short and a real eye opener to the amount of work that needs to go into making movies. Everything I had to do to make this short was new to ... http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=359 It's been a while since I've posted, partly due to being busy and partly due to just being lame. That being I've been up to plenty  lately. Kate and I left Washington in Early April and headed down to Moab to climb and for a work gig I had lined up.  My ... http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=346 [caption id="attachment_334" align="aligncenter" width="475" caption=" "][/caption]   Patagonia's spring edition of their media gallery, The TinShed, was released yesterday with a heap of new stories and videos.  There is some great stuff in there to check out.  There is one though that really sticks out as an absolutely amazing piece, and that is ... http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=331 The new Patagonia Online Fishing catalog just came out today.  And low and behold I managed to sneak a few photos into it.  The fishing catalog has historically been a real challenging catalog to get work into, as the Patagonia fishing crew is very close knit.   But they've finally ... http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=325 Here's a topo for the new route I helped establish on Acopan Tepui. [caption id="attachment_311" align="aligncenter" width="452" caption=" click for a hi-resolution version"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_316" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption=" "][/caption] http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=310 I wish I could say I've gotten countless cover shots in my life but that isn't the case yet.   So I'm especially excited about this one, which is my second cover.  I also have the inside cover shot in this catalog.  Sportiva has been a great client for me ... http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=302 http://mikeylikesrocks.com/blog/?p=297