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# Spectating Vedauwoo
- URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/spectating-vedauwoo/
- Published: 2016-05-02T02:46:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-02T02:55:41.000Z
- Author: Matt Enlow
- Tags: Climbing, @cstebbins024, post, Vedauwoo, Laramie, @ken_hilton307, @robojoy, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43

I made two trips to the 'Voo while [Laramizing](https://blog.novaugust.net/laramizing/). It's still not my turn to climb, but we keep getting closer. In the meanwhile I'm staying behind the lens and on the jugs.

Ken, KenZ and Stebbins and I went out on a Saturday. I jugged up Friday the 13th after Cam had warmed up on it and creeped on Ken while he came up.  
![reaching hand](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210151-2.jpg)

![portrait of a cam](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/05/P3210107-3.jpg)  
*Portrait of a blue*

![paused](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210154-3.jpg)

![bw reaching hand](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210163.jpg)

I handed the camera to KenZ when Ken went for his redpoint (flash?) on Hesitation Blues. The next few photos are the result of her genius.

![ken on hesitation](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210179.jpg)  
*I watch as Stebbins belays Ken*

![creepy baby](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210180.jpg)  
*Yeeeees*

![z's landscape](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210186.jpg)  
*This photo taken by an eight year old*

The four of us hiked over to the practice slabs next. I lead the 5.4 in my approach shoes, my first climb in two months, and then watched KenZ utterly smash the toprop.

![z sending](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210209.jpg)

![ken belays z](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210222.jpg)

### DNF

Rob, Stebbins and Malina were up the first pitch of a climb behind Lower Progressive when I found them at Vedauwoo under dubious skies.

![voo landscape](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210249.jpg)

Rob fought the winds as they tried to steal his rope and Stebbins moved the belay under a boulder when the rain came in.

![rob](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210241.jpg)

![stebbins](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210246.jpg)

![malina](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210252.jpg)

![stebbins silly](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/04/P3210261.jpg)

The sun got down and I got out.