03
Dec
09

Half Dome; Relevant to Nothing

By christopherjwright 1 Comment
Categories: Personal and Rock

While convalescing from a cold and pouring over some hard drives, I found this photo from a bunch of years back of my buddy Joey up on the Regular NW Face of Half Dome [VI 5.10 C1] and remembered how much I liked it – the photo and the climb. It was one of our great jackassed ideas: We had three days off in April and we drove halfway down after work the first day, finished the drive and hiked to the base the next day, climbed the wall and descended through snow in tennies to the base the next, drove home the next and were back at work the day after. Anyone want to climb Half Dome? Anyone? Yeah, you’re right. It’s probably a bit cold right now. Maybe next year.

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  1. 1 Steve Byrne
    December 8, 2009 at 6:49 PM

    I’ll climb Half Dizzle. Did Snake Dike and would love to do the real deal.

    Byrne

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Christopher Wright

My name is Chris Wright and I'm a mountain guide. My short story is that I was born in the UK, grew up in Pennsylvania and live and work year-round as a mountain guide and avalanche educator in Oregon, Alaska, Colorado and points elsewhere. I'm a member of the American Mountain Guides Association, and am a Certified Rock Guide as well as an Alpine Guide Aspirant. I guide mostly technical alpine and rock climbing, with the occasional expedition and ski trip thrown in there. I'm AIARE Level III Certified and instruct AIARE Level I avalanche courses as well.

In the spring I work in Alaska with the Alaska Mountaineering School, in the summer and fall I live in Bend and work for Timberline Mountain Guides, and in the winter you can most likely find me on Orizaba or in Ouray.

At almost all times you can find me with a pack, a rack and a rope pretty close by.

You can check out photos from all of my trips at the Zenfolio link below, and shoot me an email at chris@timberlinemtguides.com if you're interested in putting together a trip to climb in the Oregon Cascades, Washington's North Cascades, Ouray and Silverton ice climbing, or Mexico and Ecuador's volcanos.

I am a Certified Rock Guide with the American Mountain Guides Association. This means that I've achieved the highest possible certification available in the field of rock guiding. Let's go climbing.