Dan Demeis and Jan Brown, at Jan's house just before our departure. Jan was kind enough to loan her Tahoe to Jim, Dan, and me for our annual trip to CO.
Jim and Darren at Taco Casa, voted Best Restaurant in Vernon, TX. We heart the crunchy tacos.
Jim at Montery Cafe, Alamosa
Somewhere on the Rio Grande
Jim in action, Slumgullion Gulch
Mean Jean's Coffee in Lake City, CO, worldwide HQ of PGI, CEX, and YVAM
Jim at Poker Alice
Dam on the Alpine Loop
Adam next to our corroded campside stream
Jim crossing the creek in what I refer to as Matterhorn Basin, where he and I had camped in 2002 on our Uncompahgre expedition.
Kenn and Bubba setting up camp, which for Kenn did not include a tent.
Dan and his new solo tent, after years of enduring my snoring.
Adam and Bubba
This bright orange cap startled Bubba and elicited a few protective barks.
Marc Litle
Kenn Goodrow
Richard Gudmundsen
Dan Demeis
Adam Coffey
Dan with the most bleeding edge gear for 2009; Jim with the most junk food (Pringles, Cheese Nips, peanut butter crackers)
Peak day, packing light
Marc above treeline, Wetterhorn in the background
Not sure what we're dismissing here, but I'm sure it has something to do with everyone's general safety.
Break above treeline
Perfect Zen posture
Bubba and Wetterhorn
“This thing says we keep following the trail...”
Rich and Adam. This is the jumping off point. Not quite the ridge, but the point beyond which climbing poles are just a nuisance.
Great photo showing the valley trail leading up through a rock field
Darren traversing rock field
Adam in the blocks, ready to run a 4.3 forty
Bubba obviously couldn't join us on the C3, and faithfully stayed at the sandy plateau before the ridge for the two hours round-trip it took to return to him.
Kenn and Bubba, below the ridge
This is the first real C3 of the ridge. You're climbing up from about halfway down the photo, lower left. The top of this is what Roach refers to as the "V".
Adam, final pitch
View from plateau, the prow is to the left.
On the peak
Ridge to Matterhorn, then Uncompahgre
I'm ready to go down. I've left everything (pack, wallet, water, food) below the ridge.
Uncompahgre in the background, Matterhorn in the foreground
Darren coming up the final pitch
peak nap
Mark on the final approach. Don't look to your left.
Kenn on the final pitch
Kenn on final approach
Jim and Darren, in front of Unc, site of their first climb together
Dallas Drivers on Wetterhorn Peak, August 22, 2009
Austin College alums (and one wannabe)
L-R: Rich Gudmundsen, Marc Litle, Kenn Goodrow M.S. LPCC NCC CCMHC, Jim Yeoham, Adam Daniel Coffey, PhD, the honorable Dan Demeis w/ Premier Global Conferencing, and Magic D, Mt. Wetterhorn, August 20, 2009
Bubba found a notch with some wind in which to await our return
The road home, viewed from ridge
Wetterhorn, full shot of ridge of ascent
Adam's frugal ways finally gave out-- thankfully not on the summit.
Return journey, we found a spring without metallic contaminants.
REAL water (the stuff by our camp was undrinkable, and gave me Cryptosporidium in 2002)
Jim, post-summit, pre-Pringles
Post-peak coital relaxation
Jim and Kenn post-peak, with Pringles
Watching camp robber birds
Jim recounting Needle Park
Anarchists addicted to Glucosamine
Dan had to forgo his weekly golf game to do Wetterhorn; seems pretty chipper despite that sacrifice
Leaving camp
Jim gets down (in the sub-freezing water of Henson Creek)
D & D at Ojo Caliente, NM
Dismissive Duo, Artesian restaurant, Ojo Caliente
Jim Yeoham, photographer extraordinaire, and his own ojo caliente
Don't ask
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