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It was a great day to be out at Monkey Face at Smith, and thanks to some help we had a great line set up.  I dragged my WL1600 and its battery up there which really helped out with the shots.  A speedlight on a remote probably would have worked, but due to some space constraints it was nice to be able to put the flash a little bit farther away and nuke the entire area.  It worked something like this:

White Lightning X1600, Vagabond II battery, etc. The flash was on full power all day with no complaints from the battery.

The flash is on a tripod rather than a lightstand, which I highly recommend for places like this since it is much more stable and adjustable.  You can’t see it in this picture, but the tripod is also attached to a couple of permanent anchors in the rock to prevent it from taking a 300ft ride down the cliff if it were to get knocked over.  It was invaluable to have up there, but don’t let anyone tell you that it’s fun to drag 40lbs. of cameras, batteries, and support up that trail.