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Kate topping out on After Six, Yosemite, CA
Kate and I are back in the grandest giant ditch of the them all, Yosemite Valley. The weather has been a little unsettled but we’ve been able to get out and about.
Leaning Tower, Yosemite, CA
Just got to spend a week in Zion doing a little climbing and a bunch of shooting. Had a good time with good friends and good routes. Here is a little selection from my time there.
The first galleries is of Brittany Griffith and Kate checking out the extremely burly Brian McCray route called the Silverback. It had a show stopping off-width move on it that looked really hard. I am glad I was behind the lens and not on the sharp end for that one.
2009.04.09 The Silverback, Zion National Park, UT
The girls also got on Sheer Lunacy, a route that branches off left of Moonlight Buttress. One of the best routes I’ve seen in Zion. Good pitches on good rock with good gear. They didn’t get the send on their first day but went back and got the proper redpoint shortly after. I even got to climb this one, my one token climb in Zion.
Majka Burhardt and Kate Rutherford wanted a little spooky slabby warm up for their trip to Nambia. They found it on Risky Business, in Red Rocks. I was able to convince my friend Tobey Carman to rope-gun me up the route ahead of the ladies so I could shoot the route.
2009.03.29 Risky Business, Red Rocks, NV - Images by Mikey Schaefer