Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
| Messages 1 - 41 of total 41 in this topic |
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 5, 2007 - 10:05pm PT
|
Maybe people like to walk the plank?
Maybe knott? They start to crawl. Looks like fun.
|
|
nick d
Trad climber
nm
|
|
Wheee! Thanks for posting up!
Michael
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2007 - 10:19pm PT
|
And these guys just like to "Dangle around"
|
|
Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
|
|
Werner has anyone sent a visor free pitch? Looks like there are some holds up there!
Peter
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2007 - 10:31pm PT
|
Nobody yet Peter. It's all yours. And Walleye here's your photographer.
|
|
tadhunt
Trad climber
Sunnyvale, CA
|
|
Ha! I see from Matt's picture that we're not the first to be there at dusk!
Many more fading-light photos from Half Dome in my RNWF TR.
Of course, I bet it didn't take him until dawn the following morning to get from there to the top!
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2007 - 10:48pm PT
|
No youtube no.
Actual rescue today off of "big sandy ledges"
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2007 - 10:55pm PT
|
Link and Josh are filming a YOSAR documentary this year.
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
from the Leastside
|
|
Honnold walked all the way across it without kneeling or anything .
|
|
Buju
Big Wall climber
the range of light
|
|
the visor free does look awesome... DAB IT!
|
|
John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
|
|
That RNWF trip report is a fun read. Thanks whoever you are.
|
|
Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
|
|
YOSAR documentary???
do tell!
|
|
mcreel
climber
Barcelona
|
|
The Visor hasn't been free climbed? Somehow, I have a vague memory someone freeing it, maybe back around '95 or so. Maybe my climbing trivia memories are getting mixed up, though.
|
|
Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
|
|
David Lee Roth fired the visor on sight, BITD... before opting for the beret! LOL
|
|
HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
|
|
Style being a key ingredient of Yos climbs.
Honnold walked all the way across it without kneeling or anything .
How did the first ascent leader do it?
Awesome pics by the way
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
Geez, I didn't recognize it without 4" of snow on it.
Wasn't even tempted to try walking it.
|
|
PellucidWombat
Mountain climber
Berkeley, CA
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 02:31pm PT
|
Took this shot on Sunday of a climber following on it. That is quite the traverse! I thought the entry to the squeeze was the crux.
|
|
Deekaid
climber
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 02:41pm PT
|
that ledge really is a natural marvel
|
|
jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 02:53pm PT
|
Here's Hugh Banner in 1979. He started off walking too:
|
|
guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 02:56pm PT
|
no change...
|
|
Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 04:43pm PT
|
|
|
Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 04:47pm PT
|
I'd be on my knees crawling across it too. Not sure how to get gear in if you're just walking across. Too much fear of heights for me. Also not sure why anyone would thank God for this. Maybe give thanks when you get to the belay.
|
|
dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 04:50pm PT
|
Never climbed El Cap so excuse my ignorance, but what's up with that ledge right below i see on Vitaliys NatGeo pic, anyone traverse that and then go up the crack to Thank God ledge? Good one by the way Vitaliy :)
Edit: just got a better look at that crack from a different angle, looks like it is a ways away from that ledge, guess I answered my own question, LOL
|
|
Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 04:55pm PT
|
So, my buddy told my I "had to walk it" when I got there. I didn't know any better, so I did! How I protected it was I would balance on one leg, and lean one way with the other leg sticking out as a counter weight until I could plug gear in the crack by my toes, my chest scraping on the wall. It protected OK, but sure felt tenuous in the middle. I was facing the wall, toes on the edge, heels out over the air so that I could lean in as much as possible. I had to take my camel back and clip it to a gear loop on my side, because on my back I would have taken the whip for sure!
I get back to San Diego, tell my buddy about how tenuous it felt, and he gets all wide eyed. "You walked it! I was KIDDING!"
:)
Josh
|
|
GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 04:58pm PT
|
The late, great Lucas Dunn followed my lead on that walking face-out like a BOSS.
|
|
Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 05:49pm PT
|
I held no notion of a heroic crossing. I dropped immediately to my knees and slithered across the entire ledge like a reptile.
|
|
JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 05:52pm PT
|
Great shots, and particularly that of PW. Thanks for resurrecting this thread and adding such wonderful pictures.
John
|
|
ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 06:01pm PT
|
Dirt Claud,
Thank God is on Half Dome, not El Cap.
From an experienced arm chair position.
Arne
|
|
Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 09:23pm PT
|
I got right down and hand-traversed it when it got too skinny for me. Twice. Piece of cake. I even scared some tourists with some shenanigans.
|
|
Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 10:44pm PT
|
I've heard that the first ascent party placed 3/4 inch angles behind the ledge.
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2013 - 10:47pm PT
|
No sane man would ever walk across such a place ........ :-)
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
|
|
|
Oct 23, 2013 - 10:49pm PT
|
I believe OSHA requires a non-slip surface on all public access areas. Good news is, first offense is just a warning.
|
|
steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
|
|
|
Oct 24, 2013 - 07:51am PT
|
I was up there last June with my son, after a 43 year hiatus. I bet a few climbers here realize that the original way of doing this pitch is to drop down from the end of the ledge, and continue up a short inside corner to the belay, rather than go up that awkward, squeeze chimney, which I thought was a bit---ch.
|
|
TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
|
|
|
Oct 24, 2013 - 04:11pm PT
|
It's been an ion since I was there last but...
I recall there is a very convenient rail on the face below, right at the narrow point
I walked it until it got a little dicey, reached down to the crack behind, lobed off and hand traversed a few meters and mantled back up. Didn't seem (at the time) like that big a deal, 5.7 hand traverse for 15 or so feet with primo protection.
The moves getting into the chimney and subsequent rope drag at the top seemed a lot more daunting!
|
|
Bad Climber
climber
|
|
|
Oct 24, 2013 - 04:16pm PT
|
What trundlebum said. I walked, I crawled, I hand-traversed, mantled, thrutched and belayed. I was soooo stoked, especially since it wasn't my lead, but my partner was too spooked, so I got the glory. So glorious it is, too.
Great pics of an iconic piece of rock.
BAd
|
|
BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
|
|
|
May 28, 2014 - 02:30pm PT
|
The first ten feet or so are easy to walk and then it pinches down a couple of inches or something. That is where I monkey across it with a leg dangling.
Props to those who have walked the plank
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
May 28, 2014 - 03:41pm PT
|
I'm telling ya it's way more fun with snow and ice on it.
Praise the Lord and pass the Millar Mitts!
|
|
Burbistan
Trad climber
Barber Booth
|
|
|
May 28, 2014 - 05:04pm PT
|
Crawled the first few feet then hand traversed then grunted up the squeeze, terrified all the way.
|
|
MattB
Trad climber
Tucson
|
|
|
May 28, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
|
Micah Dash walked across no problem. I took three steps forward, four steps back
and cwarled on hands and knees.
Some folks were tossing rocks for fun off the top, so we yelled to stop.. meekly they poked out their heads over the edge and apologized
|
|
| Messages 1 - 41 of total 41 in this topic |
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!