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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Feb 15, 2013 - 10:07am PT
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boy am I envious!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Feb 15, 2013 - 10:52am PT
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Cracko, drop me a line if you need any tips.
You'll be the oldest person to solo an El Cap route when you succeed, btw.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Feb 15, 2013 - 11:03am PT
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"oldest person to solo el cap" - now there is something to look forward to later in life. Anyone can break this record if they just wait long enough.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Feb 15, 2013 - 11:21am PT
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Go Cracko;.....from out of the ashes Cracko rises like a Phoenix........(Let's go climbing and get your ass fit....let's go!)........I retired...then went back to work in a 3rd grade class for 2 months;.....next week I retire AGAIN!.............yeeehoooooooooooo for both of us!
Let's go get some more tatoos too......
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Feb 15, 2013 - 11:39am PT
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"oldest person to solo el cap" - now there is something to look forward to later in life. Anyone can break this record if they just wait long enough
Getting old enough is the easy part!
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Feb 15, 2013 - 12:32pm PT
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Mark, what is the age record for el cap solo?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 15, 2013 - 05:14pm PT
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Past 50, any time you don't have a heart attack, and walk away alive, I'd say it's a total success even if the outcome is other than what you had planned. Sounds like you took away the right message, though: getting back in shape.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Feb 15, 2013 - 05:21pm PT
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Missed this the first time around. Great stuff.
Go git sum Cracko!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Feb 15, 2013 - 05:53pm PT
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I'm guessing it's me at 55.
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Dirka
Trad climber
Hustle City
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Feb 15, 2013 - 06:06pm PT
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A great tale and a fine week.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Feb 15, 2013 - 06:16pm PT
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I'm guessing it's me at 55.
Congrats! May as well say again I liked the way Cracko captured the feeling and sense of just WANTING to play on rock, and fulfilling that with small goals at first.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 16, 2013 - 02:05am PT
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"Publically" [sic] ?!
Cracko - you have proved that you do knott have to be smart to be a schoolteacher nor a principal.
Best of luck in your success in proving that you do knott have to be smart to solo El Cap.
In fact, if you are too stupid to quit, you just might make it. It has worked for me in the past.
I'm here too on the email if you're looking for some problem-solving, feedback and debriefing.
55? Crap, I'm almost there. Someone else older really needs to solo the damn thing, so I don't have to go for the age record. Just like Dick Van Patten, I believe "Eight is enough!"
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Feb 16, 2013 - 02:11am PT
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55 is the new scared shitless.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Feb 16, 2013 - 10:08am PT
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I swore off soloing El Cap after Iron Hawk but recently I've been thinking fondly of it again. I have no plans right now but I'm pretty sure I'll solo El Cap again.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 16, 2013 - 10:17am PT
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Good on you Cracko! Welcome to the ranks of retired getting it done climbers. I'll be in the Valley the whole month of May, perhaps are paths will cross.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 16, 2013 - 10:28am PT
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Sending ascending vibes to Cracko!
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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Feb 16, 2013 - 11:14am PT
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The Public Declaration of Intent is a good start.
El Cap is so f*n big. Soloing it sounds pretty epic. If it was me, I'd break with my longstanding tactic of figuring stuff out along the way and practice everything, a lot.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Feb 16, 2013 - 01:05pm PT
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The most common piece of advice I give is to go sit down with your partner, in the Meadow, or at the brewpub, with a topo of the route and go over every pitch, anchor and bivy. Talk about EXACTLY how you are going to do EVERYTHING.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen parties trying to communicate over the raging wind trying to figure something out.
No joke, in 1977, when Max and I did the Mescalito, we didn't yell a single call in all if the 5.5 days on the route, we simply KNEW what the other guy was doing.
If you wait to get up on the climb to figure something out, your chances of success go way, way, down.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Feb 16, 2013 - 06:55pm PT
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Get some Cracko---for everyone else who wants it as bad as you do
Eat that elephant one bite at a time
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Feb 16, 2013 - 07:54pm PT
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Eat that elephant one bite at a time
Bev Johnson described her solo of the Dihedral wall in 1977 that way - perhaps you know that Hobo_Dan. It truly is an opportunity to enjoy an endless string of placements and moves.
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