Drinking alcohol on a wall in even perfect conditions is a fool's mistake.

Soft target extraordinaire.

May make Munich look like a good time.

Don't have a real good feeling about this one.

Two under Obama....the present one, and the big one that is imminent.

I suggested an all-night lead to at least get to Harding Roof. That's 5 pitches.

It took them 3 days on the previous 5 pitches.

Recommended jettisoning the booze.....lightening the load....

They are big kids, they'll be fine.

“It was a pretty good idea, the Bat tent,” Harding says. “I think I invented it, although there may have been others working on something like it at the time. It was designed to keep you out of the elements, but the first time we used it, on Half Dome, we discovered a basic flaw when a storm hit, which was that it held any water that came its way. We spent a couple of days swimming in the damn things, and nearly froze to death. Back to the drawing board.”

This, of course, was the famous attempt on the south face of Half Dome with Galen Rowell in 1968. In the annals of climbing literature, Harding’s account of his and Rowell’s “death bivouac” and eventual rescue ranks among the most thrilling. “I strongly believed that we weren’t going to survive on Half Dome,” he says. “I just had this feeling of resignation. I’ve read about dealing with likely death, and the sense of peace that comes, and even though I’m not religious, and I don’t pray up there, I had no problem with it. I was ready for it. We spent three days stuck in freezing rain and snow 750 feet from the top, and it puts you into this kind of induced shivering to try to keep yourself warm. After about 36 hours of it, you’re pretty exhausted. That’s the merciful thing about climbing – that you can get so goddamned tired you just don’t care if you die or not. It finally took a helicopter to get us off that face, and it was Royal Robbins who rappelled down to get us. I was so far gone I didn’t recognize him. Of course, hypothermia hadn’t been invented by then, so we didn’t even know we had it.”

In that photo really el cap tower is in the 'middle' and wino tower is unclear.

This below gives you a better view and shows the problem of runoff from

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El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Oct 28, 2016 - 04:03pm PT
I hope they don't have to eat their young up there.

All the best.

Learn to have some respect.

I was constantly wiping the fly with a sock having misplaced my microfiber cloth. It took over an hour of wiping to get enough water in the sock to squeeze out drops. Nathans Grade 7 fly is THAT good.

Haha, man you really are rubbish. You crack me up with your obsessions, btw. My level of Avy education. Now you're jealous and won't shut up about my work. It's not becoming, little guy. To be fair, it would appear you have some redeeming quality - working with wood is a fine skill.