Last weekend, I tagged along on the establishment of a must-do climbing route in upper Garnet Canyon, as Hans Johnstone strolled up a splitter 4-pitch route on the north side of the Middle Teton.

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Words and Photographs by Dan Long

Forty miles of hiking to four hundred feet of climbing wasn’t quite the ratio I was hoping to achieve during two trips to the Cirque of the Crowds over two summers.

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This video takes about three minutes to watch. The climb depicted, up the Upper Exum Ridge of the Grand Teton, and down the Owen Spalding route, took about 340 times that. We moseyed up that mountain, socializing, dawdling, detouring, and snacking the entire way.

Basically, I’m convinced that climbing the Grand Teton is the second most enjoyable thing you can do while breathing hard.

BTW, the climber in the video who says “Shwing!” is Ken Jern, who, several years ago, slipped on ice (right where he’s standing in the vid) and tumbled about 50 feet down the pitch below him, breaking several ribs. “It made for an interesting, painful day,” he recalled with a smile.

Last week, protest organizer Jim Stanford had hoped that 50 people would show up to Saturday’s war protest/peace rally in Wilson.

He lowballed himself.

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White House Official Transcript

Office of the Vice President

This interview was conducted on Sunday, August 5, 2007 at the Vice President’s residence in Jackson Hole.

Or maybe we dreamt it.

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