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"O-Face" – A Day of Hand Drill Bolting on Lead
Saturday morning and the cruise control was set at 80 mph heading down the turnpike towards the Wichitas. I just picked Jerel up from the McDonald’s rest stop half way between OKC and Chickasha. He was taking a much-needed break from his classes and work in order to belay me on, “O-Face” a route I’d…
Jimmy Forester
Horrible news as we learn of the death of a friend and long-time Wichita Mountain climbing icon Jimmy Forester. Details are still coming in but what is known is that Jimmy fell while soloing a route in El Potrero Chico, Mexico on November 24. At this point we don’t know the exact cause of the…
Uploaded – Quartz Fall Gathering 2006 Pics
The 10th Anniversary of the Quartz Fall Gathering was held on November 3 -5. There were quite a few climbers and the weather was nice the entire time. On Saturday many got up early and warmed up on the boulders near the parking lot before heading to the main wall. The afternoons were dedicated to…
Back to Cave Creek
Made it out to Cave Creek on Friday for a nice day of Arkansas climbing. It was good to get on steep sandstone again and back on some old favorites. Climbs like Stick in Your Eye, Processed Meat, Lips and Assholes, Dancing Queen and Gravity Slab. And I got on a route that I’ve been…
Oklahoma Climbers Donate to Skinner Fund
Donation period extended – send it in! As you may have heard, Todd Skinner was killed on Oct. 23, 2006 while descending fixed ropes on Leaning Tower in Yosemite. While many of us in Oklahoma may have never met or climbed with Todd we knew him throughs videos, photos, stories and slideshows. He was an…
Haunted House Results
All the time spent setting up the haunted house in my garage paid off on Halloween night. We had a TON of kids walk through. Some of the younger ones turned back just as the door was slammed behind them. They banged on the door until someone opened it to let them out. The ones…
Halloween
Halloween is coming up and I want to encourage everyone to participate by scaring the crap out of yourselves and each other. We built a haunted house in our garage this year and I’m really looking forward to seeing the response from the neighborhood kids. If it goes well we’ll continue to do it each…
New Super 8 Films
Got two rolls of processed Super 8 film back yesterday. One of them I shot over three years ago when I lived in Tulsa! The only parts that didn’t turn out were some climbing scenes I shot in the Little Germany area. It was early evening, under trees and in one of the limestone corridors…
News
I am working on a new site – a complete overhaul of this site to be released hopefully within the month of October. I’d say I’m about 1/3 of the way there. Shit, maybe less now that I think about it. I’ve had so much going on I can’t even keep it all straight. Problem…
Wind River Range Pictures
Finally made some time to post pictures from my August trip to the Wind River Range/Cirque of the Towers in Wyoming. Unfortunately, I haven’t put together a trip report but you can read the captions below each picture. Related Images: