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Climbing :: Red River Gorge

Posted by Forest, 01 November 2012

Arriving late Sunday night on a beautiful fall evening in the Red River Gorge, I called Ashima's aunt (Kay) exchanged pleasantries, and made a plan to meet up with them for a couple days of photographing as 11 year old Ashima set out to climb some of the Red's most difficult routes.

"Let's meet at Miguel's I suggested, I'll be wearing a blue jack--"

Laughter from the other end of the phone cuts me off "just look for the tiny Asian girl!" interjected Kay.

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Utah :: Desert Sky and Dirt Bag Dreams

Posted by Forest, 02 December 2011

Over the last couple years I've been fortunate to reconnect with some old friends and make some pretty darn cool new ones as I've jumped/fallen/scrambled into the world of rock climbing. Along the way I've also picked up on the strange and varied vernacular of the climbing culture. "Crux", "splitter", "epicing", "bomber", "bootie", "gobi" "redpoint" and a myriad of other seemingly crude and nonsensical terms have entered my vocabulary, creeping insidiously into a deeper part of my psyche and awakening in me what can probably best be termed "dirt bag" dreams. 

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Alpine-a-palooza :: Glacier Gorge

Posted by Forest, 19 October 2011

Good times hunkering down with old and new friends for a week of climbing, bivying, back country bacon cook offs, alpine scrable, boulder garden exploration, lightning storms and photo shoots galore.

Check out more awesome photos from Garrett Grove.

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Patagonia Climbing Adventures :: Día VI & VII

Posted by Forest, 05 February 2011

January 29

9:00 I awake with a carefully crafted plan to spend today relaxing around el Refugio shooting Sean and Nico slack-lining - and thereby avoodomg the 2+ hour bushwhack/scramble to the adjacent valley to climb el Campanile with Blake and Scott. It's not that I don't like climbing, but having surpassed my expectations yesterday by climbing a 5.10 pitch on M2 (broken hand in tow) as well getting a number of solid shots of the guys climbing, I feel validated in a rest day.

10:00 Over a breakfast of fried sausage and polenta cakes topped with leftover pasta sauce, Blake...

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Patagonia Climbing Adventures :: Día IV & V

Posted by Forest, 03 February 2011

Day IV & V we climb, shoot, climb, shoot, grub, sleep, repeat.

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