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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Yonder (out in the sagebrush)
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Tell it to Frost....(too old?)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Not a lick of self pity or doubt to be found on his ever grinning face! I love this shot that Ryan took during the season of reprises. Totally inspiring!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 19, 2009 - 09:45pm PT
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What?! None of you monkeys has updated your list after the fall wall climbing season? I think it's aboot time, eh?
So I'm now at 37 El Cap ascents by 36 different routes, with my ascent this fall of KAOS with Kate. That makes for 372 nights on the side of the Big Stone, not counting base and summit bivis, and almost every night I slept on my Fish Crab-O-Ledge.
Here's Kate hooking up onto one of the A4 crux pitches.
This is her view back down over all her manky gear. It was pretty thin and crumbly up there - a lot of really crappy beaks with a few taped-down hooks, but an easy pitch for me to clean! Lots of stuff in the rock, but is any of it really good enough to be considered "pro"?
Now here I am enjoying one of my best days on the whole route! I got to sit in the sun all day on this nice little flat ledge, and drink some beers. If you look carefully, you can see the opened cans in the bag in front of me - woo-hoo!
Hope to make a run up Zodiac this winter - how's your ankle doing, Nanook? Gonna be in Yosemite the last two weeks of Feb and the first of March, so stop by for a beer, eh?
Cheers,
Pete
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 19, 2009 - 09:51pm PT
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Repeats are so "old Cow", dude.......Woot!
Do a freshie, if you're knott running out.........
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Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Jan 20, 2009 - 11:50am PT
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1 Zodiac. Can't wait to get back up there.
Prod.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 20, 2009 - 11:52am PT
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I have a half dozen.......goin' back for more, also.
It's the Big Stone, after all.
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Rudder
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Jan 20, 2009 - 11:56am PT
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"How Many El Cap Routes have You Done?"
Hundreds. Oh, are we talking real or imagined? ;)
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Jan 20, 2009 - 01:44pm PT
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13 now.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 20, 2009 - 02:09pm PT
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Oh! I just remembered, I saw the picture of Gerbo at the start. Just before I headed up on Kaos, Steve told me he had made [url="http://speedclimb.com/yosemite/compare.htm"]108 ascents of El Cap by 57 different routes![/url] Cal took a hilarious photo of Steve and me standing side by side, with arms outstretched. My fingertips reach to about the middle of his forearm - sheesh. And if you think I'm short, you should see how Kate would measure up by comparison! I think she was fixing or hauling or something when I was in the Meadows with Steve, so she didn't get in on the photo.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 20, 2009 - 02:29pm PT
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Ya know, the Compare & Declare address is dead, so there will be no more updating your big list, unless, you have an alternate. Knott that it matters or nuthin'.
As you were........
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 20, 2009 - 04:19pm PT
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Two.
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salad
climber
Escondido
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Jan 20, 2009 - 04:43pm PT
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Still just 1. Turning 40 in October...what better way to spend it? Double up!!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 20, 2009 - 05:13pm PT
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Damn straight, double 'er up! Still lots of time for a young whipper-snapper like you. I managed to get my 365 nights in before turning 50, thus spending [wasting] more than 2% of my life up there. I am far more of a big wall camper than a big wall climber, although climbing the rock is a necessary chore to reach the bitchin'est campsites.
I love to meet first time summiters up top - they're always so psyched. Go send the Big Stone!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jan 20, 2009 - 07:40pm PT
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I plead the 5th.
But I'm spending another week in the Valley soon. Prow time first.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jan 20, 2009 - 07:57pm PT
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Four.
None of them went to the top.
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ericz
climber
Ogden, UT
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Jan 20, 2009 - 10:52pm PT
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A magical stone,.. that laughs with all the shadows, clouds and otherwise. Reminds me of a romp up the West Face, a few years ago with GK. The rock is warm with the afternoon rays, I'm off on the last pitch to chickenhead ledge. Just another rope stretcher on the 70,.. laybacking on the 5.7 toward the boardwalk, oh yeah life is good. When the mind is relaxed, the body will follow.
Push and pull, push and pull,.. when,.. my foot slips. Ooops! When one is suspended between moments, thoughts can come quickly. I'm leading on a skinny cord, way above my last piece of gear, more than 200 feet of rope out,...this is going to be a looonng one! The sensation of the rock moving by, my hands skimming along on the lip of the crack,.. the vertical plummet. When, lo and behold my foot catches the wall, causing my hands to abruptly tension against the layback. Uuuggghhn,.. I stop falling. At times like this,.. one just feels a sense of luck. I do recall a deep and primal bellow ushered forth, before continuing on to the belay.
My nerves, along with a post adrenaline buzz soaked into the horizontal flatness of chickenhead. Whew. Thoughts came and went,.. Yabo's exploit on the Good Book drifted by, we are here, we dance,.. we,..
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 20, 2009 - 10:52pm PT
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Mungie!!!!
If you can send the Prow, you can kick out TT, or the Zode.
In your sleep, Mon. Serious. You will groove on the camp up high..........
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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Jan 21, 2009 - 04:39am PT
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Only three sadly :(
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luggi
Trad climber
atwater california
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Jan 21, 2009 - 08:38pm PT
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Just for info...does Gerberding or Stowe post here...I would think in Stowe's case how many routes he has done towing people up or rescues would be interesting. Also... it does mean more if you get to name the route. I don't have to ever worry about the naming part.
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