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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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thx Clint. Supertopo detail quality. a worthy adventure for sure!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Thanks to an exceedingly well-illustrated TR, I can finally visualize the route -- which I've wondered about, ever since reading Roper's description in the red book.
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Idaho Falls, ID
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Nov 16, 2008 - 09:49pm PT
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I'll bet the whole thing is Photo Shopped, just kidding! This is an awesome pictorial tour of the extreme side of El Capitan! Great job guys!
Thor
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Nov 17, 2008 - 02:24pm PT
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Really nice. Thanks.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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anyone know about this?
Too Many Darts. Tim Auger and I arose to do the East Side of Bridalveil. A quick game of darts and we set off. We never found the correct route, but just started climbing up obvious cracks to the right of the East Side route. The first pitch starts in a hollow by the base of the Bridalveil pools. Climb a small pedestal, then the right-hand of two cracks. A long (150-foot, plus) lead takes one to a ledge on the right. Traverse right on the ledge and climb up the right side of a block. Step right (F7) and climb up into the base of a chimney (this may be wet). The third pitch goes up the chimney 40 feet and then out right and up for 100 feet (F7). Pitch four stays in the main crack and avoids the openbook curving right. Climb some face moves on the left of the crack, then move back to the cracks and climb to the base of an ominous overhanging crack (F7). Belay 20 feet above it. The next pitch continues up for 130 feet. Belay in a small alcove atop a bush. Continue up for 140 feet of continuous F7 with a hard jam move. Belay in a slot with flakes and horns on the right. The final pitch climbs a 30-foot jam crack (F8, possibly a pin or two of aid). Move right on a sloping ledge and climb up 30 feet more in a corner. A few aid pins lead around the roof to the right, and 30 feet of climbing leads to the rim. NCCS III, F8, A1,
BOB SCHNEIDER, Unaffiliated [url="http://www.americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/1972/usa1972_102-136.pdf"]AAJ 1972 p127[/url]
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the Fet
Supercaliyosemistic climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Sep 29, 2009 - 07:17pm PT
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Bump for a seriously kickass trip report.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Sep 29, 2009 - 07:55pm PT
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yuch, the old reports have those broken link tabs...
and no way to edit them...
and they don't work as hyper-links.
too much to contemplate! the ugliness of tags revealed....
it's a tangled web we weave
when ad hoc tags are used, naive!
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Trad climber
Merced CA
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Sep 29, 2009 - 08:34pm PT
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Great TR Clint! Sounded and looked like a great time mate.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Oct 30, 2012 - 01:19am PT
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bump
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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'Tis the season, bump!
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Clint, better you than me.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Oct 10, 2014 - 12:24am PT
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I'm just now finding this trip report. Reading it was was totally impressed that you guys were finding the obscure way that I totally missed when I tried it and were figuring this whole thing out about making it only 5.8....
Till I got to the part where you were throwing ropes over trees for aid, and epic-ing with only one headlamp like we did.
Too funny, all the stories of that climb have some little epic to them
Thanks for all those images. They make me sorta want to go back up there and tempt fate some more
Peace
Karl
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