Yeah, Rob, you've climbed in the Minarets. Any reason you'd disagree with my assessment of the climbing there? It's a cool place, with lots of history, but you've got to climb heads up there more than in most places (Pinnacles is a good training ground for climbing in the Minarets - and vice versa).
Here are a few from the last tray of slides, now into 2005:
The Dawsons have a July 4th climbing get together every year at their cabin at Donner Lake. Here's what I think is a well-composed shot taken at Snowshed Wall:
Jerome and I joined Dave Harden, Bart and Victor in the summer of 2005 for a double ascent of Banner Peak. Jerome and I repeated Banner's North Arete, a route that Dave had put up twenty-something years earlier, while they did another first ascent on the face to the left. Here's Banner Peak at sunrise - the North Arete is the right skyline of the peak:
The crew of rogues (well over 100 years of climbing experience in this photo);
Jerome following my lead around a gendarme in typical Minarets area rock:
On the summit with Thousand Island Lake in the background:
Looking south past the Minarets:
