Photos Phor U

Here's a brief photo diary of the last couple of weeks.

Here's Nina at the base of White Satin

the first route I placed my new cams on, and my last route on Smith Tuff.

This is me at the top of BloodClot, after I wiggled and shook my way up. Thanks to Marco for the fantastic belay and hey, it was good to see you!

Nathan has the coolest phone cover ever.

My oh-so-brief stop at Castle Crags on the trip down induced massive salivation and palm sweating. And that was just the 2.7-mile hike up.
My next stop I felt obligated to take a picture.


And another one, closer up.



This one I didn't feel obligated to take, I just wanted to catch a whiff...



These are all Yosemite Falls, Upper and Lower sections. Ironically, I forgot to take my camera with when I hiked the Upper Falls trail, but I felt freer without it. Plus, that means I'll have to go back.


My first day in the Valley, and I take pictures of my feet. In the cold, cold Merced. I almost wanted to swim.


My first night, setting up my tent, I found this on the ground. A lot of the leaves had designs. I like it.

This is Vernal Falls, from the Mist Trail. What you can't see and what I didn't manage to capture were the thousands of stairs I had to climb to get to this point. Plus, there was so much Mist I had to be careful of my camera not getting too wet. So you'll just have to believe me about the million stairs.

Also along the trail, I found this,

And for a comparison, I took this -

And then this morning, I woke up to this: