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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Nov 11, 2016 - 10:13pm PT
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That is pretty hard core. Triple mileage plus the added pressure to not have another person checking your rope management and safety systems when you are tired.
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Byran
climber
Half Dome Village
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Nov 12, 2016 - 12:35am PT
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What'd he belay with? A silent partner?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 12, 2016 - 02:53am PT
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Good question...way impressive regardless.
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batguano
climber
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Nov 12, 2016 - 03:49am PT
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I could be wrong, but I thought Pete onsighted free rider last year?
Heard from a friend of his that he was planning on using a silent partner.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 12, 2016 - 04:00am PT
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Mark my words, that boy is going places!
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Ian Parsons
climber
UK, England
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Nov 13, 2016 - 05:48am PT
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I don't think it quite looks like anything on the actual Salathé; is it one of the pitches in the final independent section of Freerider up the left side of the Salathé Headwall?
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Nov 13, 2016 - 08:08am PT
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Thanks, Ian. I stand corrected in not catching up with the times, in which major variations are considered separate routes, as they should. As an aside Robbins named the entire South West wall of El Cap, from the nose to the West Buttress, the Salathe Wall. It didn't stick; new routes became Walls. Now they just have names.
Nice looking picture.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Nov 13, 2016 - 01:29pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^Wow - that's a shot.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nov 13, 2016 - 01:38pm PT
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Radical... uncompromising... the man's a beast...
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Nov 13, 2016 - 04:12pm PT
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Roger here it is turned...
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Nov 13, 2016 - 07:40pm PT
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I think the visual impact of these two pictures is very striking. Mikey Schaefer's picture shows the dark, roiling, rock under the climbing and accentuates the steepness of the climb. Even the climber seems to be in desperate straits. The Whittaker picture looks like a 5.7 squeeze chimney on a sea of alpenglow.
I even think that the two climbers are in more-or-less the same position in the crack.
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bishop
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Nov 23, 2017 - 09:28am PT
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As for the silent partner: You can watch the video on youtube and pause to see his set-up. He's using it about as minimally as you can. Full on trusting the device. No back up from what I can see knot wise or other. Pretty solid endorsement. It's a hassle to tie and untie knots when climbing something hard. Can't let go mid crux to diddle with stuff.......
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 23, 2017 - 09:33am PT
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He's using it about as minimally as you can. Full on trusting the device. No back up ...
Yes, that's how the real pros do it.
You can't imitate, or you will die.
The gear is just there for psychological benefit.
You can't fall, and if you do then you are at the mercy of providence and your own destiny ......
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Nov 23, 2017 - 11:46am PT
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Wow, and I was just thinking yesterday, as beautiful as it was, that what Honnold has done will be a curse on El Cap. What Honnold did was amazing but it's a dead end street. There's nothing wrong with gear hanging on a climber. It's every bit as spiritual. Like everyone else though, I can't wait to see Honnold's El Cap Video. How disgusting is that?! LOL.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Nov 23, 2017 - 12:29pm PT
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Is he "Big" Jim Whittaker's son?
Either way, way to go, Pete!
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