2. 2003

Best of 2003

My personal favorites from all that I shot in '03.
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A hot August sun warms the rock as Ben Bates rappels down <i>Local Motion 5.5</i> in Archangel Valley.
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A hot August sun warms the rock as Ben Bates rappels down Local Motion 5.5 in Archangel Valley.

AlaskaHatcher PassArchangel ValleyRock ClimbingThe Monolith2003Matanuska Susitna ValleyBen Bates

  • A hot August sun warms the rock as Ben Bates rappels down <i>Local Motion 5.5</i> in Archangel Valley.
  • Angela Longley
  • Jeff belays Kristian Seiling on the Dermatologist's Dream Wall.
  • Self portrait of me working a boulder problem in Archangel Valley.
  • Ben Bates eyes his next hold on the beach in Hawaii. The humidity near the ocean made the rock far to slick to move from these holds.
  • Elisha Davis lowers off of <i>Easy Crack 5.3</i> alongside the Seward Highway.
  • One of my early digitally edited shots of Ben Bates.
  • This was a self portrait that made me realize I could make something very cool using digital editing in addition to photography. Digital tools put the impossible easily within my grasp.
  • Self portrait in the light of a computer monitor: my typical location when NOT out in the mountains.
  • I won the last Hunt Central ball cap before the site closed down, and shot this to celebrate.
  • Ben Bates stands at the belay on the first pitch of <i>Toto 5.7</i> in Archangel Valley.
  • A self portrait and early attempt at digital editing, inspired by a much sharper and well done portrait I saw online.
  • Archangel Valley on the edge of a looming rainstorm. I glanced up while walking the valley and saw the clouds moving in, so I took off running for the tent. This rainbow stopped me briefly as the first drops started falling. A few hours later it cleared up just as quickly as it started.
  • Archangel and Lane Valleys from the top of a peak above the Lane Glacier. Alaska's mountains seem to go on forever.
  • The setting sun shines from the surface of the Cook Inlet, late in an Alaskan summer evening.
  • A well-timed self portrait, boulder jumping in Archangel Valley. I somehow managed this dead-center framing on my first try.
  • Ben and Tim Bates and the Alaskan jungle, in the early stages of working our way up "Impossible Mountain" on the Kenai Peninsula.
  • Faith and Joe Bates, and a happy new beginning.
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