Rocks Climbed

Thoughts on Climbing, and Other Reports:

Highlight Ascents

Trad Pitches

• Stingray 5.13d - Joshua Tree, CA

• Surviving the Times 5.13d R - Volunteer Canyon, AZ

• Tainted Love 5.13d R - Squamish, BC

• Medicine Man 5.13d [2nd go]- Sandia Mountains, NM

• Enter the Dragon 5.13d R - The Fins, ID

• Eve Traverse 5.13d  [FFA] - Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT

• Alpenbock Crack 5.13d - Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT

• Down in Albion 5.13 R, - Indian Creek, UT

• Slayer 5.13c [FA] - Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT

• Date with Death 5.13c [2nd go] - Sandia Mountains, NM

• All Systems Go 5.13c [2nd go] - Sedona, AZ

• Southern Fried 5.13c R [3rd go] - Volunteer Canyon, AZ

• The Equalizer 5.13c R - Paradise Forks, AZ

• Shoshin 5.13c - Volunteer Canyon, AZ

• Concepcion 5.13 [3rd go] - Moab, UT

• Fallen Arches 5.13b [Onsight, P1 and P2 linked] - Little Cottonwood, UT

• The Trident 5.13a [Onsight] - Sedona, AZ

• Cat Daddy 5.13a [Onsight] - Sandia Mountains, NM

Big Wall

• Freerider in a Day [unsupported, ground up, team send in 18:16] - Yosemite, CA

• El Corazon 5.13b, 30 pitches, [Redpoint over 7 days, ground up] - Yosemite, CA

• El Nino 5.13c, 25 pitches, [Redpoint over 8 days, ground up] - Yosemite, CA

• El Corazon 5.13b, 30 pitches, [Redpoint over 7 days, ground up] - Yosemite, CA

• Golden Gate 5.13a, 30 pitches [Redpoint over 6 days, ground up] - Yosemite, CA

• Freerider 5.13a, 30 pitches, [Redpoint over 6 days, ground up] - Yosemite, CA

• Sendero Luminoso 5.13d, 13 pitches, [In a Day redpoint, after rehearsal] - Mt Hooker, WY

• Father Time 5.13b, 22 pitches [Lead Rope Solo Redpoint over 5 days, ground up] - Yosemite, CA

• Cousin of Death 5.13d, 5 pitches [Redpoint in a day with no falls, after rehearsal] - Sedona, AZ

• Westie Face 5.13a, 9 pitches [Lead Rope Solo free over multiple days] - Yosemite, CA

• Rope Solo Nose in a Day [18 hour 30 minutes] - Yosemite, CA

• The American Way [FFA] 5.13a, 25 pitches - Ak Su Valley, Kyrgyzstan 

• Free Ascents of Zion’s “Big Three” Walls (Moonlight 5.12+, Spaceshot 5.13a, Touchstone 5.13b) - Zion, UT

Sport Pitches

• Parity Prow 5.14- [FA, Lead Rope Solo] - Volunteer Canyon, AZ

• Interrobang 5.14a - Lone Peak Cirque, UT

• Ecstasy 5.13b [Onsight] - Bishop, CA

• Iridescence 5.14a [FA] - Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT

• Sultan's Gold 5.13d [FA] - Flagstaff Hinterlands, AZ

• The Green Corner 5.13d  [FA] - Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT

• The Super Ramp 5.13c  [FA] - Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT

• Blade of Isilidur 5.13c [FFA, trady stem corner] - Flagstaff, AZ

• Box Elder Cling 5.13b  [FA] - Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT