Hello everyone. I've been working on my thesis revisions and generally staring at my computer in a dumbfounded nature. I feel like it's been working. And in amazing news I woke up to a glorious whiteness that is winter. There was easily a foot of snow down before I even left for work. Pretty sweet. Plus it's been snowing all day and we'll be above 20 inches here soon!

Anyways, the real point of this post is to throw up some pictures from climbing Devils Tower. This has a pretty good story to it too.

A couple friends told me they were heading there one day and I said I would be heading back home so I'd meet them there the next morning and climb with them. Well, they get there in good time, throw up a camp and are able to have a good 'ol time while I'm trying to pack up my climbing gear back in Bozeman.

Well, I'm gathering my gear and since I had just finished up school I was hoping I still had enough brain usage to remember all my things. I don't leave Bozeman until almost 9pm. This makes for a long evening of driving and I finally pull over somewhere in Wyoming and sleep just off the interstate with some truckers. When I wake up at 6am I hop in the drivers seat and take off for the Tower. Luckily I get there before they even wake up so I at least don't miss them. On the downside, though, I got up too early and am now waiting in the parking lot just getting my gear together. When they finally wake up and meet me in the parking lot we roll on over to Soler with way too much gear and string the two pitches up quite well. The climb was a lot of fun (I've only done the first pitch before) and we made it up without too many complications. Although we did have a good 'ol time with three of us on a hanging belay. So crowded and uncomfortable.

Well, here's the photos from the trip.

Yep, I look pretty stoked right here.

The summit