2011 Canyoneering Calendar

This is the preliminary calendar on this page.

Why?

Putting together a calendar is tougher than people might think - in other words I'm trying to generate sympathy for the decisions I made, or at least for the sturm und strang involved in making those decisions - or maybe it is another in my series on "understanding human nature".

Anyway, here is the last round of images I sent out to a dozen people for comments and criticism. I tried a calendar a couple years ago, and got bogged down in the decision making process. This year, I decided to do a calendar at the last moment, and thus had no time to get bogged down in the process. Also, this calendar is somewhere between a personal project to share with a few friends and trying to make a "product" that will sell and make moola. So my concerns about getting it "perfect" were considerably deflated by these considerations or lack thereof.

For your amusement, the round 2 candidates. Commentators were asked to vote on each image on a scale of 1 to 5; or to indicate which four images they would cut to get down to 12. On the next page will be the feedback I got back from this process.

00 - Front Cover

01 - Black Hole

02 - Jane and Roger in the PNW

03 - Nick Wilkes rapping in Arizona

04 - Jump in Matacanes

05 - fly on flowers

06 - Rye Brye Subway Gatorade

07 - Ms. Martens in Gravel

08 - big toss

09 - Weather event in West Canyon

10 - Ram in Spearhead

11 - Ram raps off sand

12 - Oregon

13 - Alicia in Neon

14 - Oak Creek Hueco Wall

15 - Amy Hansen rappelling in oak creek

16 - Kate Straney in Zion

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