Smoke's stuff

A string and all

Doug starts out

Shakedown moves

Eva follows closely behind

It was real climbing right away

Moving through the course as a team

Spotting and coaching is the invisible rope used on the course

Marty Hornick contemplates the Flying Squirrel move

I knew he would do it at this point, so I waited for the leap

Alchemy of Action

Marty commits

The Rubber Tester

Nancy puts new technology to an old test

Burrowing through the landscape

So many moves

Doug downclimbs

Leading the way, making it look easy, Doug keeps tensions low

Reckoning

In agreement

Moving into the Faucet

Old school technique on improbable moves

Classic Buttermilker

An iconic move

In his element

Surveying the territory

Moving through the creases

Like children at the playground, we followed one and other into and through the crumbling granite rockscape

A hallway

Granite Lane

Curiosity

This seemed a prerequisite for becoming a Buttermilker, the desire to go have a look

Entering the Charcoal Chimney

Smoke said that this was once filled with guano that caught on fire from a lightning strike and it burned for days.

Eva following suit

Up into the Charcoal Chimney

Marty reaching

Corridor climbing

Gaining the Charcoal Chimney

Marty makes the move

Oh the places you'll go

A surprisingly easy passage

Inside

Little space

The many faces of Buttermilking

Nancy said she was having fun, but there was gravel falling in her eyes

Marty

Gaining the Skin Diver