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MattF
Trad climber
Bend, Or
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Feb 18, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
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Anyone know if that thing is still there?
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ashtond6
climber
Sheffield, UK
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Apr 15, 2015 - 04:27am PT
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bump
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Aug 24, 2016 - 06:09pm PT
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I always assumed that the boot flake is integral to the wall
Yeah that's the only way you can talk yourself into going by it.
For the record, I thought the same on pitch 11 on Half dome 30 years ago even when I stepped on a chockstones and it dropped 2".
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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Aug 25, 2016 - 08:56am PT
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Why would you touch something like that? Its obviously loose and should be avoided. El Cap (and climbing in general)will never be safe. If you fix any potential problem you might as well be sport climbing.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 25, 2016 - 09:01am PT
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"No, this is not the cocaine thread after all.
You're right again, von Mabel."
--Bob the Packsheep, still in harness, still can't find his way out of an outhouse, not that he needs one
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Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
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Aug 25, 2016 - 10:29am PT
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Scole posted: If you fix any potential problem you might as well be sport climbing. Would that include the use of a rope and protection on trad climbs?
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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Aug 26, 2016 - 07:50am PT
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This discussion is about altering nature to better suit your abilities. Climbing big walls includes risk. There is loose rock all over El Cap. If something loose can be avoided, avoid it. If it must be climbed, be careful.
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Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
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Aug 26, 2016 - 08:34am PT
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Fair enough. No - or at least minimal - "improvement" of the rock is a sensible ethic.
But there have been other cases where death blocks have been removed. And it's not a question of whether this one goes - just when.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Aug 26, 2016 - 11:02am PT
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It makes sense to me to trundle that block to avoid injury or death. Pick a day in the dead of winter.....with no one around.....and send it.
Didn't that death block on the Nose at the hanging belay below the alcove that was held in place with a pile of old slings get biffed in '97 or so during the winter floods? I was so happy to follow the pitch below and grab the rack and go at that belay in '94.
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