jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Feb 13, 2015 - 05:08am PT
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A route up that part of the wall would be fabulous though, wouldn't it? What a great thread, stuff of dreams - as Clint said:
One of my friends used to call it "shadow climbing" - trying to imagine myself up there and thinking about what it would be like.
I think the recent Dawn Wall ascent was this micro-managed and should serve as an example how the remaining route prospects have to be worked. It just is the way it has to be when climbing at this high a level.
That is without doubt - I wonder if this wall was given the scrutiny that TC afforded Dawn Wall, would it yield an equivalent route (in terms of difficulty and quality, not style, obviously). Do I take your second sentence as a sort of reluctant acceptance of that ethic or is your first sentence embracing it? Just out of curiosity, do you see a time in Yosemite when this wall (or others) would simply be sterilely rap bolted or do you think the strict Yosemite ethic will prevail?
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