2010-05-31

Simon Meis sending Big Baby

I watched and filmed Simon grunting, thrutching and stacking up Big Baby for over an hour, a pretty awesome show, albeit a little slow. I convinced him to where a head cam, so now you can watch it up close and personal too.

Big Baby, Indian Creek 5.11+ from alpine summits on Vimeo.

May Road Trip Photos



Simon sending Big Baby

Spring desert flowers

Another day in the Creek




2010-05-04

Climbing Riptide on Mt. Patterson

After a long winter of NOT ice climbing (John Freeman spent 10 weeks in the desert and I heli skiing for most of the winter) we managed to get our psyche up to go and climb Riptide. It was a great day with the climb living up to it's reputation of shitty ice and terrifying approach slopes. The big disappointment of the day came at the end while skiing out, John fell and broke his neck at (C7). It took 2 weeks for the doctors to find the break all the while John was biking and climbing.