Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Sawtooths



We finally made it to the coast and are hanging out relaxing in Seattle after a week in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. Had a few storms roll through...



Climbed Snowyside Peak...



Swam in some Alpine Lakes...



Caught some trout...



Smelled some wildflowers...



Eaten alive by horrible mosquitoes...maybe worse than Alaska...




More to come...

Friday, July 18, 2008

The Tetons


We just arrived in Idaho after spending the last few days in Wyoming. While there we climbed Teewinot (the peak on the far right in the above image, the "Grand" Teton is just to the left of Teewinot). It was an amazing climb with about 1000 feet of snow climbing followed by some 4th and 5th Class rock climbing. 5th class only because we got off route! Below is an image of Dianna pulling off her first mantle at about 13000 feet.



We also caught a few rainbow trout at our camp outside the park in the National Forest. The Park system was hatin' on Smoke.



After the Tetons we headed to Yellowstone, which was way overcrowded, so we bailed after a day of driving around to see all the weird geothermal activity.





More to come...

Sunday, July 13, 2008

On The Road Again



On our way to the Grand Tetons to kick off our summer road trip. Many updates to come...

Also, here are a few images from the past month. Puzzle Day tournament for the Clinton School, some wedding work and a story about the Border Patrol for the New York Times.