Category: Climbing
The Waterstreak
A spin-off for my writings and other sharings (or just another substack). Just in time and just what you’re looking for; The Waterstreak is a side-hustle, spin-off project, (super group? no, that doesn’t work), curated collection of stories, essays, musings, postings, and dare I say…more? Probably not. But still. (Those last two are not actual…
More Guides and Stuff
After all this time I honestly can’t remember what I have and haven’t posted sometimes. It’s not until I go back through this website and previous versions of websites that I’ve saved over the years, that I discover if I have or haven’t posted something. In any case, I decided to beef up the Tulsa…
Photo Reflection – Ice Climbing and Ice Farming at the Silos in OKC
Photos of ice climbing through the years at the silos in Oklahoma City.
Photo Reflection: Climbing in Tuolumne Meadows
Flashback to summer of 2010 when Adam was working in Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite and I made the trip out to visit and do some climbing. Nothing like pristine alpine granite boulders and big mountain routes in the high Sierra! Related Images:
The Dunce and the Matador
Some of my best climbing experiences have been on the limestone walls of El Potrero Chico in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. I have been there six times and each time was a memorable experience. This is about one trip in particular that took place in January of 1999. I wrote about it in my journal at…
The Buildering Files: Historical Climbing Guides to Urban Ascents in Norman, Oklahoma
Publishing these guides online for posterity. If you are interested in buildering and buildering guides you will appreciate these. The Urban Climber was the first published guide for climbing on the OU campus. It was authored by Bernie Wire and Ramzy Telley. Though there is no copyright date on the version I have, based on…
Unearthed: Tour De Pump Climbing Competition – 1995 – Paradise Rock Gym, Denver, CO
Going through my old 8mm video tapes I located this gem. Another competition video – this one from the 1995 Tour De Pump climbing competition at the Paradise Rock Gym in Denver, Colorado. I haven’t scrubbed the video for names yet but you may recognize a few folks. My brother Adam and I – both…
Unearthed: Tour de Pump Climbing Competition 1993 video – Featuring Russell Hooper and other rock stars
In 1993 I decided to drive (or ride, as it were) to Boulder, Colorado for the Tour De Pump, an annual climbing competition that featured some of the best sport climbers of the day. Here were the superstars of the climbing world, and to a newly minted climber from Norman, Oklahoma, it was like being…
Photo Reflection – Climbing a spire in Mexico
This has always been one of my favorite routes due to its position, exposure and level of adventure. Here on the second pitch of the west Spire, the top of the climb ends at a small pinnacle just big enough for two people to run the rope through a bolted anchor and rappel the south…
Photo Reflection: Bugaboos Approach
I’m going back through my archives of photos to do some individual photo postings along with a short (or maybe in some cases long) blurb about the picture; who, what, where, when, etc. So we’ll kick it off with this one from 1997 (I think) from a month long climbing trip to Alberta and British Columbia.…