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Alex climbing Icarus in Eldorado Canyon, Sept 2011.
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Alex and Martin at the wedding of Martin’s colleague Kevin Reimer in Atlanta, October 2011.
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Martin, Fran, Rick and Alex with our friend Emily Kewley on Christmas Eve.
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Rick, his girlfriend Tate Reed and Fran in Flagstaff, AZ, October 2011.
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Fran and Alex at Kevin Reimer’s wedding in Atlanta, October 2011.
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Rick at the start of the S. Kaibab trail, Grand Canyon, October 2011.
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Rick crossing the Colorado River at the base of the Grand Canyon, October 2011.
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Rick, Tate and Fran at the Desert View Watchtower, Grand Canyon, October 2011.
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Martin at the summit of the Third Flatiron, en route to climbing the “Top Ten” Flatirons in a day, an outing that he unwisely embarked on in 95+ degree heat in August.
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Alpine Club of Canada camp at the base of Mt. Tsar in the Canadian Rockies, where Martin spent a week in July 2011. This was one of the few days that the summit of Mt. Tsar was actually visible.
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The SW Corner of the Saber, a route in Rocky Mountain National Park that Martin climbed in August with Anders Fridberg.
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Alex on the way to a climb of Stairway to Heaven in the Flatirons, August 2011.
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Rick spent the summer working in Yellowstone Nat’l Park in Wyoming. In late August Martin drove up there to collect him and on their way back home they stopped to attempt a climb of the Grand Teton (in the background on the left).
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Martin on the way to the Grand Teton.
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Rick at the entrance to Garnet Canyon, on the way to the Grand Teton. The peak in the background is the Middle Teton, not the Grand. More than one party has headed up to the Middle Teton by mistake.
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Rick on the way to the Grand Teton, with Nez Perce and Cloudveil Dome in the background.
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Rick on the Lower Exum Ridge, Grand Teton, with the Middle Teton in the backgound.
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Rick at the top of the Lower Exum Ridge, Grand Teton, with the Middle Teton in the backgound.
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Martin on his way to a climb of Kiener’s Route on Long’s Peak (Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park) with Kurt Mensch in July 2011.
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Alex and Rick at Vail, December 2011. Not much snow to be seen.
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Martin hiking down the S. Kaibab trail, Grand Canyon, October 2011.
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The view from our back window after the first snowfall of the season, October 2011.
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The view from the villa where Fran, Alex and Emily stayed in St. John.
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Alex, Fran and Alex’s friend Emily Hawkins (on the left) in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, July 2011.
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Crossing the glacier at the base of Mt. Tsar, with the Clemenceau Icefield in the background. We retreated from half-way up Tsar on account of sloppy wet snow on top of steep, loose rock (normally the rock’s dry by this time of year).
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Flying out from Tsar camp; Mt. Shackleton in the background.