3 YEARS!!!

Wow do I suck. Three years since I posted on this  blog. Now the camera is back in my hands and I'm hoping it stays there. Both it and I were a little rusty but we managed to pull off some great shots of even better climbers.

Steve working into High Noon at 3 o'clock.

I'm really thankful to Logan for generating a situation that has brought my camera and I back together.

Logan as he keeps getting better with every burn on the thin and hard Starvation Fruit.

This move...is hard and almost as equally crazy.

Lucky enough to have others working hard stuff below me while I was just hanging around.

Steven giving a solid effort on Coleslaw and Chemicals

This was heartbreaking but that is the nature of the route. Hardest moves of this hard route are right at the end.

He got the route the next day.

Peder almost made Big R seem casual. Really impressive.

 I was so happy to get out again and photograph friends doing what they love.

Show at the Ranch

Greg was at it again, getting a great group of people together with good tunes and social lubricant. A really good time nothing fancy just good fun. No crazy furry hippies this time but there were multiple fire dancers. Here's the proof.

Must have beard.

Happy Birthday!

Hangin' at the Smith Ranch

Greg knows how to throw it down. Awesome entertainment from Tony Smiley surrounded by good people, schwag,  good food, Mose's Hat, a gorilla, and a bear/kitten/.....

See you next time!

Random Biking

Konrad and I headed out into the wilds of the Bend area wilderness to snap some photos. We were stuck in the desolation that is the the Deschutes National Forest literally hundreds of feet from the car. In pure isolation with the only interruption being the constant flood of people. After surviving our grand trek from the comfort of the west side this was the result.

Though after this outing I think Konrad should be named "Konrad of the Jungle" because he will hurl his body towards any tree at any speed with little regard for the consequences. If the tree misses him he'll give it another opportunity to succeed. Thanks for running laps for me Konrad.

Hangin' at Widgi

Widgi must be the bouldering equivalent of the morning glory wall at smith. People are almost always there and you are bound to know someone in any crew that shows up. That being said I headed out there with a friend planning on meeting some friends. Then some other fiends showed up followed by some friends of my friends. That place really needs a cheers sign.

I've never seen someone so happy to be falling.

Notice how comfortable it makes the climber feel when you have proper form while 'taking weight.'

That crimp is not much thicker than Grant's fingernails.

How many more logos does this image need?

Damn

Little to the left Konrad

Notice the knuckles.