> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.novaugust.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Flowers and Limestone - URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/flowers-and-limestone/ - Published: 2015-09-14T15:27:45.000Z - Updated: 2016-02-22T18:18:29.000Z - Author: Matt Enlow - Tags: Climbing, @christophertrudeau, post, Wild Iris, @disavlynx, flowers, @erikkallman, sport climbing, @jaredheathphotog, ticklist, @ken_hilton307, @meyer, @skrotdisa, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43 The campsites and walls of Wild Iris have almost been more home to me than Jackson this summer - I think I have clocked in at least twenty nights there by now. The season started with Swedish women, flowers, a big black truck, and a jaded man of French-Canadian descent. ![Car camping](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/DSC_0309.jpg) *The Wild Iris mobile* The jaded man got stoked scoping out a summer project our first day at the Aspens, and it was a bit contagious ![Scoping Butch Pocket](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/DSC_0227.jpg) *Scoping Butch Pocket, 2015 guidebook in hand* ### Flower Power There's a reason the area's named after a flower. The fields go wild up there late in the spring.. ![Flowers to the winds](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1070585.jpg) ![Big D and a flower](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1070592.jpg) ![Big D photographs flowers](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1070529.jpg) *Photographing the photographer* ### My peeps The season kept going with a [wild Fourth of July](https://blog.novaugust.net/wildest-of-is/). A week after that Erik, Ken, Disa and I reunited for a bit more sending - that's when the wedding and the mushroom squirrel happened. Ask me about it sometime. At the end of July I had a blind date with a Mountain Projecter who ended up being a primary partner for the rest of the summer, my new friend Dave Meyer (a.k.a. Kyle). ![Dave follows the second pitch of Gunky](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1110103-2.jpg) *Kyle follows the second pitch of Gunky (5.8). I think he subsequently soloed this route at least ten times* The final trip of the season saw Meyer, Trudeau, myself, and a Mr. Jared Heath (another car-living climber) back for a final week at The I. ![Sitting around camp](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1120759.jpg) *Dave and Jared sitting in the Aspens campground* After the sendsperation of Jared and Meyer projecting Wind and Rattlesnakes, I had my two best days of climbing ever, with my first 11d flash and two other 11ds redpointed. ![Jared lights up](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1120677.jpg) *Smoking. So bad for you, so easily glamorized.* *Jared lights up a sweet-smelling cigar* ### Limestone Anyhoo. Enough about flowers and people. Let's talk about rocks. Cue the monochrome rock photo! ![Stacked rocks, B&W](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1070574.jpg) No no no, I mean the kind you'd want to climb! ![Black and white crusher, on Butch Pocket](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/DSC_0361.jpg) *Butch Pocket (12a) - Photo by Big D* Bingo. Now keep 'em comin'. ![Trudeau fingers Night Flying Woman](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/DSC_0382.jpg) *Trudeau fingers Night Flying Woman (11a) - Photo by Big D* ![Little D slabbing](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1070626.jpg) *Little D adjusts to life at 9k feet* ![Californios, cruxxin](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P6210124.jpg) *Californios (11b) - Photo by Big D* ![Big D on Winchester Pump](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1070858.jpg) *Winchester Pump (11b)* ![Tribal War](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1090442.jpg) *Tribal War (11c)* ![Little D on Gaucho](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1100140.jpg) *Gaucho (10d)* ![Me on Zorro](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/09/P1100468.jpg) *Zorro (11d) - Photo by Erik* Thanks to Erik and Kalle for so many of the photos in this post! ### Ticklist (and ~~misses~~) The following is a bunch of minutiae that you don't want to read unless you're really into climbing *and* you want to nerd out with me over beers at the Lander Bar someday. ###### 5.Easy Gunky (5.8) & Wind River Muzzle Loader (5.9) ###### 10a (3) All He's Ever Gonna Have, Ride Me Cowgirl, Red Ryder ###### 10b (6) Rope the Moon, Take Off Your Hat, Cirque de Suave, Doob Loob, King Lazy Bones, Imagine What I Could Do To Your Face ###### 10c (5) Dirty Sally, Mutt Ridin' Monkey, Young Guns, Gaucho, The Man From Laramie, ~~Urban Cowboys~~ ###### 10d (3) Testosterone Alfresco, Claim Jumper, Pronghorn Tramp ###### 11a (3) Night Flying Woman, The Duke, The Undercling, ~~The Prospect~~ ###### 11b (4) Californios, Lonely Are the Brave, Winchester Pump, Cowboy Poetry ###### 11c (4) Tribal War, Boys From Brazil, Honed on the Range, Arizona Cowgirl, ~~Wrong End of a Gun~~ ###### 11d (3) Zorro, Rooster Cogburn, Whips Chaps & Chains, ~~Ambuscado~~ ###### ~~12a (0)~~ *Wind & Rattlesnakes, Diamonds and Rain, Hot Tamale Baby, Butch Pocket and the Sundance Pump*