Juston Ledoux Bouldering, Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado
Here’s another one of my favorite bouldering photos from Colorado. This one was shot in the Rotary Park area of Horsetooth Reservoir. Overlooking the water on the west side of the first hogback, just outside of Fort Collins, Rotary Park is an awesome year-round climbing spot, and home to some of the legendary boulders such as The Eliminator, The Mental Block and The Cat Eye Wall.
The climber in this photo is my good friend Juston Ledoux. We worked together at a digital photo lab (my last day job before turning pro). He wasn’t a rock climber when we first met, but the incessant daily banter between the three other climbers in the scanning room soon lured him towards the dark side. Over the next few years, I climbed quite a bit with Juston and watched him fall in love with the sport and push his limits to exciting levels.
I’ve always loved this image that I shot of him pulling the overhang into the sunshine on the south side of the Eliminator Boulder. I always thought it would have made a great Climbing Magazine cover image, but sadly, it never made the cut.
Pat Goodman bouldering, Carter Lake, Colorado
Sometimes it’s fun to go back through the archives and dig up some of the older shots. Here’s a photo of my friend Pat Goodman climbing a very difficult boulder problem called “Meatrope” that I took years ago on a cool Spring afternoon at Carter lake in Colorado. I shot it with a Nikon N90s on Fuji Velvia 50 slide film.
Pat is an incredible and very accomplished rock climber who has fingers of steel and unbending determination. He has dedicated his life to the sport and has done some amazing climbs all over the world, including this trip in the Indian Himalaya. He lived around the corner from me for a few years during my basement dwelling days in Fort Collins when I first turned pro as a climbing photographer, and we used to climb together all the time.
He’s a great climbing partner, a great photo model and an awesome friend. He always has the best of spirits, in the worst of conditions. One time we drove all the way back into Arch Canyon in southern Utah to spend a week climbing towers, but woke up the next morning to a dumping snowstorm. It was an epic adventure getting my truck back out of there with the fresh snow and rising rivers, and Pat got out out every few minutes to shovel snow and wet desert mud away from the tires with a little folding army shovel that his mom had given him while I steered. We laughed the whole time. That’s the kind of guy you want with you on a wall.
Pat and I live on opposite corners of the country now and I haven’t seen him in years. I miss his regular company and I still think about the unrealized Greenland trip that we tried to put together back in the day. What a grand adventure that would have been!
(Camping below Missouri Mountain, Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, Colorado)
(Hiker on the summit of Mt. Huron: 14,003-feet, Sawatch Range, Colorado.)
(Ryan Miller making backcountry turns in a top secret powder stash, somewhere in Colorado)
(BSA Executive Director Brian Holcombe, making fresh turns in the Colorado Backcountry.)
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Skinning near the summit of South Diamond Peak, Northern Mountains, Colorado
Sunset over Nokhu Crags (12,485′), Cameron Pass, Colorado.
Sunset on the summit ridge of Mount Massive, Colorado.
A morning view of the foothills to the northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado
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