Our gear for Spaceshot
The obligatory shot of all our gear spread out on a tarp the night before the climb. We had already free-climbed the first three pitches, and left two fixed...1600 x 1200 pixels
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Me leading pitch 4
Starting up the initial bolt ladder of pitch 4, just before sunrise1200 x 1600 pixels
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Aaron jugging pitch 4
The sun still hasn't hit the floor of the canyon yet, but it has crept down past us on the wall.1200 x 1600 pixels
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Me leading pitch 5
The photo's a little out of focus, but I like the composition of it, with the beautiful crack, the solid #2 Camalot, and my body twisted a little to maintain...1200 x 1600 pixels
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Aaron leading pitches 6 and 7
I combined pitch 5 with the first 50 or so feet of pitch 6, so Aaron was able to link the rest of pitch 6 with pitch 7, bringing us to Earth Orbit Ledge....1600 x 1200 pixels
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Pig In Space!
The route we were climbing follows a crack system that runs up alongside a GIANT arch cut into the side of the wall. When you reach the ledge at the end of...1200 x 1600 pixels
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Me jugging the final pitch
The photo does not nearly do justice to the awesome exposure.1600 x 1200 pixels
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Me jugging the final pitch
Nice bloody fang, don't you think? What, I never told you I was a werewolf? Sometimes my lips will get dry and will crack and bleed a little when I'm climbing,...1600 x 1200 pixels
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Angel's Landing from the summit of Spaceshot
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Aaron's summit self-portrait
Aaron loves to take self-portraits like this, and they often turn out terrible or just funny, but this one turned out really good, with a nice view of Angel's...1600 x 1200 pixels
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Aaron's summit self-portrait, take 2
Another good self-portrait from the summit of Spaceshot, taken while I was jugging the last pitch.1600 x 1200 pixels
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Summit self-portrait
YES, OKAY, I DO WEAR WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR! I ADMIT IT! But only when I'm climbing a big-wall, something sufficiently manly enough to cancel out the girlyness of...1600 x 1200 pixels
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Aaron at the summit of Spaceshot
Angel's Landing in the background1200 x 1600 pixels
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Aaron and piles of gear at the summit
Now we've just got to get all this crap down... ugh. (After Prodigal Sun and Moonlight Buttress, we just walked down a nice trail, but here, we had to follow a...1600 x 1200 pixels
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Me setting up a rappel
I know it's badly washed out, but I like this photo. It's sort of an action shot of me, in the midst of rigging up our last (or second to last?) rappel from...1600 x 1200 pixels
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Spaceshot from the rappels
This photo was taken from a point in the middle of the rappels off of Spaceshot. Here you can see the giant arch that the route runs next to. The route goes up...1200 x 1600 pixels
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Pretty little waterfall
As we were rappelling from Spaceshot, Aaron spotted this little cascade off in the distance, up the valley from us.1200 x 1600 pixels
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Start rapping
Me about to start the last (or second to last?) rappel off of Spaceshot1600 x 1200 pixels
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Me and Aaron back at the car
All loaded up with our gear, and me still wearing women's underwear... now we just had a seven hour drive back to L.A.!1600 x 1200 pixels
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