Look out Yosemite: Ondra is coming!

jorgverhoevenDihedral Wall is kicking my ass! This route is hard as nails and as technical as it gets, covering many hard pitches on polished and slippery rock. I did lots of weeding and brushing, since it hasn't seen much freeclimbing action. I also chose to fix ropes on the lower pitches, since they don't seem to bother anyone. If so, give me a shout!
@dustin.007 (shot the 📷) helped me out a bunch, and together with @katha_saurwein made it possible for me to work the route, before attempting a free push. Need to get stronger!

Update: Ondra Dials in Pitch 15 (5.14d) of the Dawn Wall

“After the period of rain and two days of rest, I went onto the wall with Pavel for three days. The plan was to send pitch 15 [5.14d] and 16 [5.14a] the first night. Hauling took us a while, so we got to our basecamp under the crux pitches in the dark. But it did not matter really. It was finally cold enough for pitch 15!

“Unfortunately the very beginning of the pitch was still wet after the big rain, so I had to skip the first 5 meters, which are not very difficult. Finally, on my fourth go I could send this ‘shortened’ pitch 15. Super excited about it! I worked hard on pitch 16 later that night. I got pretty close, trying it via the ‘Loop Pitch’ and tried to continue all the way into pitch 17 (5.14a), which makes sense to me. It is much harder—the whole pitch could be around 5.14c—but I think it is worth it. But let's see what I will think on the push;-)

Right now, we are resting on the portaledge this morning. I would like to work on the 4 pitches (around 5.13c-5.13d) to the Wino Tower tonight and tomorrow. Then we will go to the summit and complete our ground-up free/aid ascent. Cool style in my opinion to justify the use of fixed ropes.

“Life on the portaledge is just great. We’ve just had oatmeal for breakfast, and it is pleasant temperature to hang around in the sun and we even have solar panels to charge our phones. Life is pretty sweet up here. Even using Wag bags when necessary is not as bad as I thought.”

–BD Ambassador Adam Ondra, November 2, 2016.

Stay tuned for more exclusive coverage of Ondra’s Yosemite trip.

good to note that BD is supporting leaving tat all over the valley for Team Ondra media coverage

If I strung up Mescalito like the Dawn Wall, would that be cool?!

They are largely the same route I think is his point.

If I strung up Mescalito like the Dawn Wall, would that be cool?!

Did Ondra have any booze to jettison?

Mountain climber
The Deep Woods

Nov 3, 2016 - 01:33pm PT
Pete bailed but Ondra stayed up there and climbed all night. I thought sport climbers were weenies and aid climbers were the tough guys? Or maybe that's just on the internet. Did Ondra have any booze to jettison?

kingtut, Social climber, carmel, ca. ,Nov 1, 2016 - 07:21pm PT
In my experience the very, very best are humble, secure in their ability and place in the scheme of things.
Yaniro, Price, Kauk, Edlinger, Hill, Sharma; Had nothing but the best experiences from that lot.
even that Peter Haan guy and Werner are nice,
of course, they are cut from different cloth of bad-assedry :P.

Ondra it seems too is solid.

*Its the next rung that is arrogant and obnoxious, probably from insecurity.*