- IMG 1968
Packing Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Don't get discouraged, viewers--the pictures do get much more exciting. - IMG 1969
Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Not that this isn't thrilling stuff. - IMG 1970
Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Maybe he's doing something completely unrelated in this picture, but it's worth noting that Doug burned a last minute CD on the way out the door. Senor Coconut, the first CD of the road trip. Were it not for child safety lock doors, Leslie might have thrown herself into traffic. - IMG 1971
Breakfast Location: Hueco Tanks State Park There's just nothing like grapefruit juice. - IMG 1972
Loading up, heading out Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Doug's '95 Infiniti took us to El Paso and back. Because no car is better in the desert than a black one, with black leather interior. Good times. - IMG 1973
the front seat Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Jeff and Doug chatted in the front seat. - IMG 1974
The back seat Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Well, it was damn early. This picture begins a long series of Jeff photographing us being cute. - IMG 1975
Napping some more Location: Hueco Tanks State Park As we passed the last real trees and entered the wasteland of West Texas, as Hong's Penske truck swerved periodically onto the shoulder/oncoming traffic, we slept (fortifying ourselves for the climbing ahead, of course). - IMG 1977
Bryan takes the wheel Location: Hueco Tanks State Park - IMG 1978
Our view Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Hong's truck, maxing out at 80 mph. - IMG 1979
Another view Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Hong's truck and the famous tit mountain (tit like the bird, of course, you freak). - IMG 1980
Striving for intellectual betterment Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Despite our periodic truculence, Jeff quizzed us on GRE vocab sedulously (the secondary definition). Did you know that "inveigle" was a word? Did you know it means "to jack up?" - IMG 1981
Roughing it Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Yes, we were at work for hours weeding out the rocks and sticks that littered our campsite. - IMG 1982
Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Of course, the campsites were actually luxurious--running water, electricity, hot showers 30 feet away. This was our kitchen/dining room/lounge. - IMG 1983
The tent, up Location: Hueco Tanks State Park This bad boy slept Ali, Doug and Jeff and had a really funky old tent smell. The groundcloth was from WW2. - IMG 1984
Dinner, the first Location: Hueco Tanks State Park After a hard day of driving and watching videos about how not to desecrate art, it was time to carbo-load with the help of Leslie's spaghetti sauce. - IMG 1985
The aformentioned sauce Location: Hueco Tanks State Park On Doug's camp stove, which managed not to kill anyone the whole week. - IMG 1986
(sigh) Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Bryan, like the true obnoxious boy scout father that he may someday become, decided it would be really neat to take pictures of Leslie when they woke up at 5 a.m. - IMG 1987
and again Location: Hueco Tanks State Park She contemplates how to kill him with a pillowcase. - IMG 1988
Hong and his Truck Location: Hueco Tanks State Park - IMG 1990
Breakfast, the first Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Jeff makes breakfast tacos. - IMG 1991
Still breakfast Location: Hueco Tanks State Park We mill around in the morning. - IMG 1992
Hong, unfurling Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Isn't "unfurling" a neat word? I also like "mendacity" and "inchoate." I blame Jeff. - IMG 1993
What he was unfurling for Location: Hueco Tanks State Park The multi-pitch climb (Hueco Syndrome, a 5.10-) with which Bryan and Hong kicked off the trip. - IMG 1994
First pitch Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Hong at the top of the first pitch (about 90 feet up). - IMG 1996
Mushroom Boulder Location: Hueco Tanks State Park A view of where everyone else was playing from Bryan and Hong's multi-pitch. - IMG 1997
El Fin Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Bryan rappels (whee). - IMG 1998
Bryan is still rappelling Location: Hueco Tanks State Park It was a long climb. - IMG 1999
A view from the top Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Photo by Bryan from the top of Hueco Syndrome. - IMG 2000
Leslie's first rappel Location: Hueco Tanks State Park Bryan assures Leslie she will not, in fact, die, when she steps over a cliff, because this equipment could lower a herd of Volkswagens, goddamnit.