Jason Nelson Climbing Ice I looked down at my harness to count how many ice screws I had left. There was only three remaining. Above me a wall of vertical ice continued endlessly with the only change in relief being a shallow indentation about 40 ft. above me. It wasn’t even close to being a […]
Check out the story and video (written, edit and produced) by Jason Nelson on the Verticulture site. Below is an excerpt: Zero to Hero -a new mixed climb- came together in a series of pieces. The first began about three years ago… Living in Ouray, with a population of 900, meant that climbing partners could […]
Jason scored big in Alaska this year. At Bart Lake, Jason and partner Ryan Johnson put up three new first ascents. More details are available in the above article. That’s only one part of his trip. More reports, stories and pictures still to come. You can read about it on climbing.com (Climbing Magazine’s Website) […]
Lisa is currently gracing the Outdoor Research Women’s Apparel page. Check it out. This is photo was taken last year during a photo shoot prior to the Red Rocks Rendesvous event that we annually teach clinics at. The photo was take by Bryan Smith at Red Rocks, just outside of Las Vegas, NV. […]
I exit the grocery store with Ryan Johnson my climbing partner and host for this trip. We enter into the cold sunlight and look up to see spindrift avalanches cascading down over the ice climbs on Juneau mountain. Somewhere along the halfway point, gravity is met with a strong updraft and forms a standing wave […]
OK, first of all, I want to address the fact that is doesn’t have anything to do with web development. I hope that’s OK for some of you. We over here at Visual Adventures are not one trick ponies. We choose to excel at more than one thing. As mentioned in other blog posts, web […]
Jason Nelson of Visual Adventures has an adventure up his sleeve this winter. He will be traveling to Juneau to meet Ryan Johnson who lives in the area and has been scoping out the best climbs in the Juneau area that are yet unclimbed. The duo will be attempting some cutting edge ice […]
The biggest snowstorm of the year happened across Flagstaff while I was preparing for a trip to Alaska. It seemed fit that I get prepared for the winter experience I was soon heading to. I threw my skis, skins, and boots in to the back of the jeep and drove up to the Arizona […]
Visual Adventures recently completed a new website for the Canyon Gallery in Montrose, Colorado.
Tucked an hour away up a rugged gully in Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona, this waterfall forms up when there is significant snowmelt from above. Be warned that there is significant rockfall in this area once you make the brutal slog up the hill.