Chris Brown's Blog » desert http://highexposures.com/blog Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:23:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 grain – climbing in Zion http://highexposures.com/blog/2010/06/06/grain/ http://highexposures.com/blog/2010/06/06/grain/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:43:31 +0000 chris_brown http://highexposures.com/blog/?p=220 Click the pic to launch the show.

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]]> http://highexposures.com/blog/2010/06/06/grain/feed/ 2 Rain in the Desert aka The Experience of Being There… http://highexposures.com/blog/2010/05/04/rain-in-the-desert-aka-the-experience-of-being-there/ http://highexposures.com/blog/2010/05/04/rain-in-the-desert-aka-the-experience-of-being-there/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 23:30:38 +0000 chris_brown http://highexposures.com/blog/?p=184
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Pat and Josh looking out onto the encroaching city from their bivy below The Rainbow Wall.

We often hear about the latest 5.TEEN or V-TEEN crushed by some ‘hard person’ from a magical land full of the best rock, the best routes and the best climbers. Flip the page or click next and then you get to read about someone doing it FASTER or in less tries or with only one shoe on. Is this what inspires you to climb? Sure its great to be inspired by amazing achievements, but what’s the point? The experience.

Experiences are more valuable than any material possessions. Experiences make us who we are – they form our thinking processes and our vision of the world. Through pursuits such as climbing, we’re able to create our own experiences – sure they’ll always be affected by outside unforseen influences, but that’s the point. So if we can create our own experiences, we can create our own reality.

The following footage was captured deep in the Vegas desert during total immersion on a trip up The Rainbow Wall. We did not have Josh Lowell filming.  We did not do it car to car in a day. The climbing was not rushed. We did not get up before sunrise. We fell numerous times.  We had fun.  We were scared.  We created our reality.


]]> http://highexposures.com/blog/2010/05/04/rain-in-the-desert-aka-the-experience-of-being-there/feed/ 3 Creekin’ Out http://highexposures.com/blog/2009/10/22/creekin-out/ http://highexposures.com/blog/2009/10/22/creekin-out/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:47:54 +0000 chris_brown http://highexposures.com/blog/?p=158 knot Creekin Outclimbing


]]> http://highexposures.com/blog/2009/10/22/creekin-out/feed/ 2 Luchador Escalado http://highexposures.com/blog/2009/04/05/luchador-escalado/ http://highexposures.com/blog/2009/04/05/luchador-escalado/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:04:55 +0000 chris_brown http://highexposures.com/cbblog/?p=32 Deep in the desert of the American Southwest, as late night campfires slowly dwindle to piles of glowing embers, legends are told of a mystical creature with bright plumage and strong claws.  Few storytellers have encountered the creature, but they know well the amazing capabilities it possesses.  Able to subsist on most any type of food, scale any obstacle in its path, and magically appear in many different places: the legend of the Luchador Escalado…

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The rare Luhador Escalado.

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Click on the image or here to learn more about this special creature and the environments it inhabits.


]]> http://highexposures.com/blog/2009/04/05/luchador-escalado/feed/ 0 A Week in the Creek aka the yurt don’t hurt http://highexposures.com/blog/2008/04/03/a-week-in-the-creek-aka-the-yurt-dont-hurt/ http://highexposures.com/blog/2008/04/03/a-week-in-the-creek-aka-the-yurt-dont-hurt/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:06:12 +0000 chris_brown http://highexposures.com/blog/?p=88 What’s better than a week in the desert?  A week in the desert in the yurt, of course.  Yes God made dirt, but Todd made yurt.  Do yourself a favor next time you’re in Indian Creek – get out of the wind and cold and into the yurt.  Check it out at yurtcation.com.

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Climbers on Black Uhuru at the Fin Wall.

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Ample room inside the yurt.

More images inside…

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25 minutes is all it takes to get you from the yurt to the best crack climbing in the world.


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