'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 8, 2005 - 02:00am PT
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This is Page 8 of a ten-part post which is a photo essay of my recent ascent of Tribal Rite on El Capitan. If you’re here and don’t know how or why, then please click here to return to the beginning.
It would appear that Tom’s gloves were in the bag of storm gear that rolled off of Lay Lady Ledge, so here he improvises with a couple socks.
Here’s another shot of the two of us in our little home. You can see the big wall stove assembled as described above.
Beneath us, the Nose team hunkers down on El Cap Towers, while another team [who will follow us up Tribal Rite] is camped out on top of the Boot Flake. The chimney between the two teams is the back of the Texas Flake.
The storm clouds eventually parted, and the golden rays of twilight lit Half Dome. What a spectacular evening it was, and we felt optimistic we’d see some better weather the next day.
So grab your sunglasses, your aiders, your beaks and your pecker, and click here to climb the RURP Pitch with us, and move to Page 9 of this ten-page photo essay.
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