Videos

Here are some of my favorite or more pop­u­lar videos on youtube — and by “pop­u­lar”, I mean my friends all stopped by for a look. Thanks guys! :P

You can view more on my youtube chan­nel. If you like them, please com­ment, rate and subscribe!

Climb­ing

Cur­rently one of my favorite videos I’ve ever made. The Tooth is a nice easy climb within close prox­im­ity to Seat­tle. It’s all the alpine feel with min­i­mal com­mit­ment. It took us three attempts to stand on the top last win­ter for var­i­ous rea­sons, but mostly because we’re fat and lazy.

I’m not sure this video is all that spec­tac­u­lar, but I loved this trip. Ouray, ice climb­ing, friends, hot springs — what isn’t there to love?

This video reminds me of the warm sum­mer days climb­ing, camp­ing, and hangin’ out with friends. It always puts a smile on my face. Good times!

Search & Rescue

The footage from this video is pre­sented com­pletely raw with­out edit­ing. It’s taken from a hel­met cam dur­ing a rig­ging exer­cise where Wes & Amber ran into a bee nest while hang­ing from two rope sys­tems on the side of a small cliff. They couldn’t move or escape with­out the upper teams low­er­ing them. Both sus­tained MANY bee stings but were okay. This was one of those shots where after­ward you’re think­ing … woah, we just caught all that on film! Def­i­nitely an epic expe­ri­ence for those two.

Logan and Lau­ren took some footage dur­ing a rig­ging exer­cise where we tran­si­tioned from steep angle to high angle. We called it the Beached Whale Maneu­ver because as you breach from the cliff-side onto the less steep slope, the lit­ter raises up ver­ti­cally about half way on the cliff edge before it comes to a soft land­ing on the slope.

A typ­i­cal lit­ter raise/lower dur­ing a rig­ging exer­cise. In this video, the atten­dant stays above the sub­ject on the raise, which can make for an eas­ier edge transition.