• Leaning Tower Route.  Starts 400 feet off the ground with a very exposed approach...with a pig.
  • Begining of the traverse to the first pitch of the route.  I set a fixed line from here to the r
  • There were a couple of areas that were tricky to carry all my gear over...
  • This was the most difficult part.  I ended up carrying five loads over the traverse...I'd say 5.
  • Finally got all of my gear across.  Wally, my mascot, was happy to be there as well.
  • That was a lot of work so I had to make a PB&J, mmm good.
  • The first couple of pitches are mostly bolt ladders.  Easy you say...
  • My view for a week.  The west end of Yosemite Valley.
  • Finally leading up pitch one.  Bolts, bolts, bolts...
  • On the second pitch I realized that I'll run out of biners.  So I start spacing them out a bit..
  • Almost to the top of the second pitch.  You can see the spacing better with this shot.  And the
  • I stash all my gear at the top of the second pitch and rappel to my pig.  Done for the day.
  • As I rap down I get further and further away from the wall...
  • I'm about 10 feet away from the wall right there, and still a long ways to go.
  • A bit of shadow boxing.  Remember, 500 feet off the deck.
  • By the time I reach my gear I'm about 35 feet from the wall.  I just pull myself in with the rap
  • First pitch...bolts to the sky.  You can see the ropes hanging from the top of pitch two.
  • The next morning I released the pig, jumared back to the top of pitch two and hauled.
  • This shows a shot of the pig waiting for me to get to the top of pitch two.
  • And higher I go.
  • My gear as I left it.  There were a few areas that fixed gear was missing that I used  the cheat
  • I just got done hauling for the first time and now on to pitch three...
  • I linked pitches three and four which were mostly gear with some bolts.  It was a long day so I
  • Night...
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