> ## 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. # Fremont Canyon - URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/fremont-canyon/ - Published: 2016-04-02T20:07:00.000Z - Updated: 2016-04-24T03:45:25.000Z - Author: Matt Enlow - Tags: Climbing, @anitajcurtis, post, Fremont Canyon, @cstebbins024, Gypses, @ken_hilton307, @redgyps, @slimjimbim, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43 Don't tell my surgeon, but when the Vedauwoo-crushin' "gypses" invited me for a weekend of exposure in Fremont Canyon I responded "Can I borrow an ascender?" I spent three days hanging from an old rope and staring down my camera at the self-proclaimed gypses. I ended the trip with two thousand photos and a gaggle of new friends. ### The Gypses These are the folk that make up Hilton's storied Laramie crew. ![Stebbins belaying](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180158-2.jpg) **Stebbins** I met [last fall in Vedauwoo](https://blog.novaugust.net/september-2015/#homeinlaramie), which is where I also met... ![Slim and Anita](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180381.jpg) **Anita**, whose man-toy **Slim**/Chris/Murray... ![Murray drinking](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180373.jpg) has been an acquaintance of mine for a while. When I arrived Friday, he greeted me with "What's up you fat fuck," and like all the boys back at school, I knew he must like me. He was nicer when we were strangers. ![Shane encircled](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180375.jpg) I often saw **Shane** reading brainy books at Coal Creek Coffee but his combination of apparent strength and intellect discouraged me from introducing myself. However, he and ... ![Shaleas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180272-2.jpg) **Shaleas** [were at Lander a few months back](https://blog.novaugust.net/sinking-into-things/) and I met them then. Prior to writing this post I believe Shaleas liked me, but now that I've made that photo her intro portrait I understand if she never speaks to me again. But man, the laughs. ![Bart on Dillingham](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190227-1.jpg) **Bart** had served me beer at Coal Creek Tap on at least one occasion prior to meeting in Fremont. ![Boys on a cliff](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190659.jpg) With him Bart brought three flatlanders whose names have since been lost in the sands of time. ![Reading](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190665.jpg) They are not gypses, but they did make for nice photos for me. Cheers fellas. **Haley** holds some unknown affiliation with Stebbins, and managed to escape without a close-up. Hilton himself was absent from the action and presumed dead in a musty Greek alley after overindulging on Spring Break. ![Self Portrait](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180424.jpg) Still, there were times I could feel his spirit beside me... PS: In the hopes that Shaleas will talk to me again, proof that it was the moment, not the lady: ![Sherry portrait](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190488.jpg) Anyways. Rock Climbing. --- ### Captain America 11d R An old nemesis of Shane's (though no longer!) with Shaleas on belay. ![Coiled](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180119-1.jpg) ![Coiled](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180101-1.jpg) ![Topping it out](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180143-1.jpg) ### B-52 5.9 *Fun fact: the only route in the canyon I've climbed (four years ago with Ken and Cat)* ![A young Matthew](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/IMG_6901.jpg) --- Stebbins on lead, Shaleas on the dull end (again). ![Stebbins and Shaleas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180173.jpg) ![Stebbins clips the 2](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180189.jpg) ![Stebbins's exposure](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180241.jpg) ![Stebbin's B&W with cam](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3180237.jpg) ### Superman 11d Slim and Shaleas took turns ~~hiding from the rockfall I caused~~ on this route. ![Slim steps](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190132.jpg) ![Murray's hand cut off](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190147.jpg) ![Slim hugs](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190185.jpg) ![Sherry places gear](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190444.jpg) ![Sherry Nose wipe](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190497.jpg) *My favorite photo of the weekend* ##### Behind the scenes ![Hanging over Slim and Shaleas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-02-at-09-59-36.jpg) ### Wine And Roses 11a Shane and Shaleas. ![Shaleas in the corridor](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190605-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190503.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190546-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3190542-1.jpg) --- That's it.