Outdoors

I'm in pain. It's not what you think.

I've been going through pictures from past climbs and trips, editing them, and hosting them. In this process, I stitched together 4 photos into a panorama. Here is the skyline that surrounds the Titcomb Basin, from the southern end of it. Easily the best place I've ever been in all of my journeys through the mountains.

So it took a few months. At least I did it... Be sure to watch the annotations. It's like the old VH1 pop-up videos, only less enlightening.

Here is the first of a two part video series about last week's backpacking adventures. Part two to follow in the next couple of days.

Down low, the holds were solid, up the main shaft of the pinnacle. It was easy climbing, low 5th class, maybe even 4th class. Gaining the top of the pinnacle required going over a small overhang, and smearing my body on the sandstone mushroom top. The move was awkward at best. Overall the climb to the top of the 15 foot high pinnacle was rather easy, and took all of 30 seconds. As I stood there, my legs started to shake a bit. The fear and doubt, the good sense that I neglected to feel a minute before, was flooding in to me. Getting down would not be so easy.