Charlie's Climbing Page
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Here are photos of the setup and construction of my backyard training wall.
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Setting Poles
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Poles Set
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Building the wall
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It is up!
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Early try out
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Mesquite hold
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2nd wall ready
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Sue, Judy & Petey
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2nd wall up!
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A few wooden holds
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Closer view of holds
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Here are photos of Hank & I climbing at the Rec Center at am.
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Getting ready
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...gettng ready
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Hank
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Charlie
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Hank again
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Charlie
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Hank @ the top
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Charlie @ the top
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Here are photos of Hank & I climbing at Reimer's Fish Farm near Austin.
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The "Hankster" & group
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Hank on Teva Slab
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Still on Teva Slab
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Charlie on Zoe's
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Charlie on Teva
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Topping on Teva
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Charlie on Zoe's
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Here are photos of various climbing trips to Enchanted Rock State Natural Area
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This group of photos is of our Toprope Anchors Class that was put on by TAMU OUtdoors.
Our instructors were Jon Swantes and Gabe Steger. We had an absolutely wonderful and informative trip.
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Little dome
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Backside view
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Anchors group
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Charlie starting..
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Charlie's silhouette
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Joshua
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Sitha
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This group of photos is of the Granite Gripper competition held at Enchanted Rock SNA.
Our group: Randy Knupple and his daughter, Stacy; Rodney Ellis and myself. We enjoyed ourselvesand got in a lot of
great climbing.... enjoy the pics!
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Chalk and blood..
..ain't it great?
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Randy starting
Beginner's b***h
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Looking for
any foothold
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Randy topping out
Jackknife
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Rodney starting on
Orient Express
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Looking for anything
to move on
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..at the crux of
Orient Express
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..topping out
Orient Express
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Charlie starting
B******'s Moan
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...setting pro
on Jackknife
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...finishing
Jackknife
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This group of photos is of our last trip to Enchanted Rock SNA on December 21-22, 2002.
Our group: Randy Knupple and his daughter, Stacy; Rodney Ellis, Gaeron Baker, Andy Shields and myself.
The weather was great and so was the climbing.... enjoy the pics!
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Stacy enjoying her
first climb
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Gaeron & Rodney
rigging up on
Stem Corner
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Rodney, Gaeron
and Andy
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Gaeron leading,
Rodney on belay
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Gaeron topping out
Stem Corner
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Andy, Gaeron,
Rodney & Charlie
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Justin Pico and Me at Enchanted Rock 07-10-2005
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Getting ready to head out
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Justin on Beginner's B***h...
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...still going...
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...and topping out!
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Charlie atop B******'s Moan
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Above the difficult start...
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...and finished with B******'s Moan
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Ahhh, what satisfaction!
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Charlie on Army Route...
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...and finished.
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Two wild and crazy guys...
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Ready to pack out after a great weekend.
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When Hank and I aren't climbing rocks.... we also do Karaoke....
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