My friends often model for me with occasional excellent results. Thanks to my hiking companions for making these trips so memorable. Shown here are Katie Larson, Bill Briggs, Phil Hage, David Nebel, Dave Blakeslee, Janet Jacks, Joan Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Kim Clark, Elke Dratch, Jonathan Kriegel, and me. And thanks to Ricki Brown for permission to post his picture of Sandy Brown with the Neon Devil. Clicking on an image expands it.
The Golden Cathedral (Photo by Ricki Brown). Phil Hage climbing above an amazingly perfect saddle behind Phipps Arch. This image has been used perhaps one million times in calculus books to illustrate the idea of a saddle point. The layers form perfect contour lines.Stan entering Narnia Slot (Photo by Elke Dratch).Phil Hage near Georgies Camp Canyon.Dave Blakeslee at the crux of the Blue Wonder slot canyon.Janet Jacks at the White Domes.Joan Hutchinson at an exposed ledge on the Mee Canyon Trail.Stan Wagon finishing the crux move in Grand Junction’s Lemon Squeezer slot canyon (Photo by Bill Briggs)Phil Hage rappelling from the Waterpocket Fold into the upper reaches of Fold Canyon.Katie Larson on the Carmel sandstone atop the “Redbud Spine”, an area near Cliff Canyon that we believe had never been visited before (5.7 climbing needed).Kim Clark ascending to the Waterpocket Fold from Moody Canyon.David Nebel in a small canyon descending into Ichabod Canyon, on the Lower East Side of the Escalante River.Phil Hage in front of the remarkable expanse of Navajo sandstone near King Mesa. The prominent saddle in the center is King Mesa Pass, which is how we came from the Escalante River and the Scorpion Horse Trail.Bill Briggs on our route to the Redbud Spine.Elke Dratch visits Narnia.Walking the Wingate: Elke Dratch.Stan on a sport climb (5.9) near St. George, Utah.John Hutchinson at the entrance to the Vortex of the North Teepees.Jonathan Kriegel at our first camp during tne Death Hollow backpack (2010).Joan Hutchinson in Spooky Canyon, 1997.
