Lepton speak. Rife Of Crimb. In order to speak in the stereotypical accent of the Japanese climber, you must replace all L sounds with R sounds. Rife of Crimb...get it? To make it fun, you also replace R sounds with L sounds. So on Tribal Rite and the North America Wall, "rope of life" became "Lope of Rife".
On this trip Lepton came up with "Rife of Crimb".

These are the things I learned from Lepton, oh so long ago. These and many more.


He says this will be his only public performance before going back under the radar for another 20 years, so you better enjoy it!



Tribal Rite 3rd ascent team (sans Lesher) reunited after 30 yrs.
Hard to believe it's been 30 feckin' years. In some ways it was just yesterday.



Imagine my excitement when I learned that Lepton would be at my house for 5 days! Here he is helping with the new worm composting pit. (Farmer Bruce you know)


Of course going climbing was a requirement, so we needed a good third man. Hmmmmm, who should it be?
The master of the self portrait, Buggs of course. (Who else?) Scumbucket Jeremy can never sneak out on a weekday.



Off we went, to where the raptors soar, the river sings, and the ancient spirits would watch over us. (The ancient spirits like old men...)




We started with the Mighty Toaster on the sharp end! But only after he finished wanking about it being cold out.




Then came the moment I'd been waiting for, to see Dr. Lepton, the lightest of the light, the worlds greatest anti-freeclimber, climb for the first time in 30 years.
He promised he was going to climb in bowling shoes, but he lied. He also borrowed my prehistoric Joe Brown helmet to keep his giant brain from melting the cliff. Nuclear containment you know......

I freekin' love those shadows!!





Now it was Survivals turn on a new route!! Time to bump up the challenge on the good Dr.......

There are many great photos ahead on three routes. Plus the bonus of Lepton and I going to another magic place!

Thanks for looking Taco-Heads.

Back in a bit!!!