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hairyapeman
Mountain climber
CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 15, 2011 - 07:25pm PT
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Anyone have pictures of "Space A4" on El cap?
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Lennox
climber
just southwest of the center of the universe
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Mar 15, 2011 - 08:19pm PT
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Sorry I can't help.
I have a lot of decent slides and some low-quality pics from a disposable camera from back around '95 before a pitch fell off the route, but my scanner doesn't work since I installed Windows 7.
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hairyapeman
Mountain climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2011 - 08:23pm PT
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What pitch fell off again? Any rivets there now?
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Lennox
climber
just southwest of the center of the universe
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Mar 15, 2011 - 09:22pm PT
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I think it was pitch 8, but I'm not sure. It's had at least a few ascents since then, but I don't know what that section's like.
Edit - I think Jay aka Shaggy, was part of a team that was first to go up after that pitch fell off. He doesn't participate here, but his girlfriend Melissa does.
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Oxymoron
Big Wall climber
total Disarray
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Mar 15, 2011 - 09:35pm PT
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It was Jay Selvidge & Chris Trudeau.
My book says many bat hooks, pitch missing...P8(it was 5.0 loose).
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Mar 15, 2011 - 09:41pm PT
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Timmy O'Neill and Ammon have both been up there since the rockfall. The route is definitely repeatable now.
What I would like to know is if anyone has climbed Cosmos since Tom and I climbed it, replacing a bunch of the anchor bolts, and trundling a huge feature on fifth pitch.
The McTopo says "no cams on pitch" yet when I arrived at its base, there was a 3.5 Camalot stuck in a crack. I'm like, "Woo-hoo!" until I grabbed the thing and pulled - the whole giant flake weighing several tons teetered. This explained the brand new 3/8" bolt drilled in the face right next to it - a rap bolt.
I had to drill three rivets to bypass the flake, then after hauling I trundled the flake with a single pull of my hand - a fifteen foot high triangle about 4 x 2 feet at its base. Granite has a s.g. of about 2.4 I think - someone tell me how much that bastard weighed! I then chopped the rivets because there was a thin crack behind where the giant block had been - I assumed [and hope!] it's climbable.
This was spring of 2006, right after our failed attempt on Wings of Steel. Man, I sure wish someone would go up and climb it RIGHT NOW.
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hairyapeman
Mountain climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2011 - 09:48pm PT
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Nice. Just seeing if anyone out there has any pics. Then again I do think the ones of Mescalito will be just about the same?
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Mar 16, 2011 - 01:05am PT
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J has no pix. Maybe Chris?
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Mar 16, 2011 - 01:27am PT
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Got to watch a leader on the 6th pitch, through a fat scope in the meadow.
This was july 06' I think.
He placed more than a few heads, and was at the anchor in 45 minutes.
A4 never looked so easy.
My hands are sweating now thinking about it.
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