Long's Peak Diamond

This photo shows nearly the entire Casual Route from Broadway on up. Red dots indicate the belay spots; the lowest red dot is on Broadway at the base of the D1 pillar.

Climbing the Diamond

Day 1: This is me on the approach to Chasm Lake. The ridge up and just right of me is the Flying Buttress of Meeker - a classic 5.9 route! The climb follows the narrow arete that separates the sunlit and shadowed part of the face.

Day 2: Sunrise from the North Chimney - even from low on the face you can look out over the Twin Sisters onto the eastern plains of Colorado.

Climbing up North Chimney to Broadway - Amelia is scrambling up some of the exposed rock slabs above the Mills Glacier.

Amelia seconds the traverse pitch (Pitch 2) with the haul bag. Nice high angle face climbing with lots of holds.

The classic climbing photo - the buttshot! I'm leading the fourth pitch (the first pitch up the big dihedral). Ahead of me is the second climber of the pair that was ahead of us, and his belayer is looking down the dihedral from the top. I stopped and belayed just above where the second is in this picture.

Amelia with a big smile, right in the middle of the 5.10 crux just before Table Ledge, with 1500' of air under her feet - pretty Casual! Her right hand is in the jam where the fixed pin used to be.