Rock Climbing

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North Carolina

UNC-Chapel Hill owns the Forest Theater, which is sometimes used for outdoor performances. The walls are rough stone about 12ft high and offer a variety of difficult traversing and topout problems. These pictures, taken by Suguru Sato, are from an afternoon visit several years ago.

The Forest Theater

Yuko, Hannah and David

Hannah and David

David, Hannah, Yuko and Suguru

West Virginia and Pennsylvania

The Explorers' Club of Pittsburgh takes their climbing school students to Seneca Rocks, WV every year. These pictures, taken by Phil Sidel, are from the 2001 trip.

Racking up at the start of the day.

Hannah, Joy Geng and Craig Mills at the base of the last pitch of Old Man's Route (5.2). They had climbed Le Gourmet and Front C to get there.

Hannah, Joy Geng, Craig Mills and Hugh Shinn at the Old Man's Route belay station.

David on Candy Corner (5.5).

Small gritstone (rough sandstone) cliffs are scattered throughout the ridges of South Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia.

David on Bio-Fear (5.7), Breakneck Rocks, Connellsville, PA (Photo: Tim Anderson)

David on Wide-Point Roof (5.9+), Jimi Cliff, Cooper's Rock, Morgantown, WV (Photo: Craig Mills)

Eight placements in 25ft of 5.0! Inspecting one of Hannah's first leads on Cooper's Rock, Morgantown, WV (Photo: Craig Mills)

Red Rocks, Nevada

Red Rocks, just outside Las Vegas, NV, is one of the premier climbing destinations in the USA. These pictures are from a trip during May 2003.

Calico Hills viewed from the base of Magic Bus.	Hannah hiking in to the Magic Bus.	Desert varnish plates.	Inez Drixelius on Technicolor Sunrise (5.8 PG) at the Magic Bus.
One of several pools on the hike into the Black Corridor, Second Pullout.	Hannah in the Black Corridor, Second Pullout.	David on Black Gold (5.10b), the Black Corridor.	Redbud tree in the Black Corridor.
Rainbow Mountain and Rainbow Wall	Cactus along the Pine Creek trail.	Prickly pear along the Pine Creek trail.	Mescalito formation, home to Dark Shadows, Pine Creek Canyon.
Dark Shadows (5.8), Pine Creek Canyon	Climbers on pitch 4 of Dark Shadows.	Climber about to start pitch 1 of Dark Shadows.	Climbers ascending pitch 3 of Dark Shadows.
Hannah at the base of Dark Shadows after our descent.

The Gunks, New York

Pictures from the Gunks during November 2003 including full documentation of the crux sequence of MF, The Trapps (5.9).

Breakfast in the West Trapps lot.	Approaching the top of pitch one of Belly Roll, The Trapps (5.4).	Hannah on Belly Roll, The Trapps (5.4).	Nearing the crux of MF, The Trapps (5.9).
Starting the crux of MF.	Pulling through on MF.	Nearly there on MF.	Hannah on MF, The Trapps (5.9).
Easier initial sections of MF.	Surveying the crux.	Pulling the crux on MF.	Beyond the first crux, there is another on MF.

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