Summer 2004, South Dakota and Wyoming
Click on photo for larger image.
Photo 1 - Typical Needles topout. Climbers unknown.
Photo 2 - Outstanding views.
Photo 3 - Tossing the rope for rappel off the top.
Photo 4 - Climbing the Conn Diagonal in the Needles, SD.
Photo 5 - A view of others from our perch on top of Conn Diagonal.
Photo 6 - Somewhere on the classic Durrance route. We didn't find it very esthetic.
Photo 7 - I thought this 10c climb was a little stiff. But it went.
Photo 8 - A more relaxing view of the Tower.
Photo 9 - Tower summit. Basically looks like typical Wyoming plain, just have to watch the dropoff.
We climbed the tower fully three times and did some 1 pitchers in other areas. Lucked out and missed the storms
while we were actually on the rock.
Photo 10 - A view of the backpack in and out of the Wind River Range. Awesome climbing if you don't mind getting over what is called
Jackass pass.
Photo 11 - A view of Pingora with Wolfes Head in the back. We climbed up the face just right of the snow
on the bottom of Pingora, far right on photo.
Photo 12 - Heading up East face of Pingora. Highly recommended. As good as the classic Northeast face in my opinion without the extreme commitment.
Photo 13 - I'm heading up Cloud Dome here, basically in the middle of the Wyoming desert. Yes, it was hot!
