Thank You

Joe Poulton

Preparing to enter the arena

My sister getting ready for her ride

The light was a bit less on the indoor arena, not to mention each light in the ceiling was a different color. No flash was allowed.

Showing her skills

Photographic reproduction of my EMT course certificate from the NWRTC

I passed my NREMT exam on Monday June 28, 2010 and am waiting for my National certficate!

Got my certficate on 7/1/2010!

A simple 6 image panoramic. Didn't have my larger lens.

My brother and I at Jack Lake (self portrait)

A view of Jefferson not seen prior to the forest fire in 2003

The first view of Three Finger Jack on the way in

An excellent 3/4 moon was the fill for this shot. 350sec f8.0 18mm Canon 40D

We went out to Smith Rocks again this week! My wife took the sharp end of the rope for another round and squashed the spider on the first pitch of Spiderman Buttress a 5.7 slab for her third lead climb ever. Naturally while out there to climb I also seized the opportunity to get some more photos.

Our neighbor in camp

The Monument at Smith

Cristian Brothers of Smith Rock State Park

This was a 150sec exposure at f2.8 with a 18mm

Smith Rock landscape is undeniably amazing

Matt trekking through avalanche debris

Took this shot of Matt on our way up Yellow Aster Butte last Thursday. We did not make it up due difficulties in the steep forest. I found a few tree wells to be rather inviting unintentionally.

Taking flight at Larrabee State Park

I got this shot on Friday at Larrabee State park along Chuckanut Dr south of Bellingham, Wa.   Went out there for some bouldering and photography after a hard day in the mountains on Thursday.

Mount Saint Helens from the Worm Flow approach trail.

I had a 3 hour window of opportunity yesterday morning so I decided to scope out the standard winter approach on the South side of Helens or Loowit (Keeper of the Fire).  I took the above photo with my little HD video/photo camera.  The lighting is not as I would have liked it had I used my DSLR.

On March 19, 2010 Tom Hanlon and I went for a little adventure around the Eastside of Mount Hood.  I took the above image from our bivy on the Southside at the start of our journey.  The next day we woke up at 0300 and got moving by 0430 to circumnavigate around to the Black Spider area above the Mount Hood Meadows ski area on the Northeast corner of the mountain.  We went up towards the base of the Steel Cliffs seen in the photo below at the right edge of the image.

Then we wrapped around and up onto the ridge line that continues out of frame to the right in the above image.  From there we continued on a generally level contour to the Black Spider area of Mount Hood’s East face as seen in the image below.

The day I took this image of the Black Spider the ice line above the snow bowl just left of center was unclimbed.  The following day two climbers tagged this wonderful line and named it Fric Amos.  Tom and I continued around to the Cooper Spur and finished with a climb to the top at 1209 on 3/19/2010.

For the trip report on Cascade Climbers.com for the journey Tom and I took click here.