Welcome to the home page of the world-famous Sakonnet Ledge Rats!
We are two brothers, George & Harry, who began climbing in New England in the 1970s using Goldline rope and machine nuts.
We moved out west in the late 1970s and discovered pitons.
During the last 30 years we climbed throughout the High Sierra, Yosemite Valley, North Cascades, Bugaboos, Alaska and the desert Southwest.
Here is a photo gallery of some of our climbing adventures.
George & Harry in the High Sierra
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EXPEDITIONS
Our expeditions to the high Alaska Range of Mount McKinley (Denali), including the West Rib and Reality Ridge.
Also some photos from a friend's climbs on Mount Everest.
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BUGABOOS
Our climbing in the vertical alpine wonderland of the Bugaboos, British Columbia.
An alpine rock-climber's dream, with peaks like Bugaboo Spire, Snowpatch Spire and the Howser Towers.
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BIG WALLS
Nail it!
Our ascents of big walls in Yosemite Valley (El Capitan, The Leaning Tower and Washington Column).
Also big wall attempts in Alaska and the Bugaboos.
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NORTH CASCADES
Our alpine climbing in the North Cascades of Washington: Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, Forbidden Peak and Glacier Peak.
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SIERRA NEVADA
The magnificent Range of Light of California.
Our climbs throughout the High Sierra including the Sawtooth, Palisades, Mount Whitney and the Evolution.
There's even a trip through the wonderous Enchanted Gorge.
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YOSEMITE VALLEY
The wonderous scenery and rock-climbing of Yosemite Valley and Tuolomne Meadows, California.
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ROCKY MOUNTAINS
I thought that there were thousands of peaks in Colorado.
But if you ask a Colorado climber, you'll discover that there are only fifty-four!
Seriously, there is more to the Colorado Rocky Mountain High than the fifty-four "Fourteeners."
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GRAND TETONS
Our first "real" climbing trip, to the Grand Tetons of Wyoming.
We were seriously humbled.
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DESERT MOUNTAINS
The desert mountains of the southwest.
Climbs of dangerous, crumbling volcanic necks such as Cabezon Peak (shown here).
Rock-climbing on the granite the Sandia Mountains of Albuquerque.
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