Trip Report
TR: Winter Ascent of Thunderbolt to Sill Traverse (w/3D Fly Through)
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Thursday February 17, 2011 5:23pm
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(reposted in the appropriate place)
On the weekend of Jan 14 Konstantin and I went up to the Palisades to do the traverse from Thunderbolt to Sill. We hadn't heard of anyone completing it in Winter so we thought it would be a good challenge (though people may already have). We got lucky with conditions and ended up sending after 3 days and one cold bivy on a slopey ledge at 14,000 ft.
Note: The TR contains a new feature with a 3D flythrough of the climb. Check it out!
Click here to check out the TR:
http://pullharder.org/2011/02/16/cant-touch-it-winter-ascent-of-thunderbolt-to-sill-traverse/
snowey
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About the Author
snowey is a trad climber from San Diego. |
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nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
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Feb 17, 2011 - 05:44pm PT
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I want to be the first to say KICK AZZ just from the title... now let's read
Edit: Lots o' laughs in the trip report, and sweet Google Earth tour! This brings the spraydown to a whole new level. Damn, might need a third person in the team just to manage the spray now!
One suggestion: show the fly-over tour without the embedded photographs, then let people interactively mouse-over the photos on their own navigation afterward.
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M. Volland
Trad climber
Grand Canyon
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Feb 18, 2011 - 09:40pm PT
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Looks like a great time and effort. Way to go!
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Feb 17, 2011 - 06:17pm PT
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Way super bold. Full value for sure. You guys need to send this in to Urban Climber.
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Nohea
Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
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Feb 17, 2011 - 06:38pm PT
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Yea! good stuff and Mahalo for sharing. Willi gotta move closer to the mountains!
Aloha,
will
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Feb 18, 2011 - 01:03am PT
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very cool(no pun intended)
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Buju
Big Wall climber
the range of light
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Feb 18, 2011 - 01:29am PT
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So awesome! Thanks for giving some much needed winter PSYCHE!
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Feb 18, 2011 - 04:16am PT
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Good shit! Enjoyed the humor and all!
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snowey
Trad climber
San Diego
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Author's Reply
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Feb 18, 2011 - 01:18pm PT
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Yes, we do love to spray. Thought that was what the Trip Report section was about...getting psyched and psyching others.
Good call on the suggestion nutjob. I will pass the word along to the Tomnod peeps.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Feb 18, 2011 - 02:07pm PT
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This is definitely setting a new and higher standard of sorts. Most excellent layout. Thanks for the tour, I'm all juiced up now. Loved all the words, too.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Feb 18, 2011 - 02:15pm PT
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"A little sexy time" and "A room with a view".
Bitchin' man. Just bitchin'!!!
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Feb 18, 2011 - 02:31pm PT
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Great! Really enjoyed that. What is a khram? I may never know.
A side note to the haters -
For a lot of us, the single best thing about a site like ST.com is when someone takes the time to share climbing stories.
If those stories contain pictures, even better. In fact, the more details and the more pictures, the better. This is the DNA of ST.
When we log into this site, we are hoping to find something exactly like what Snowey has shared here. Usually, we don't get it; usually, the front page is full of bullshit and we leave disappointed.
So please, for f*#k's sake, don't discourage Snowey or anyone else from posting their stuff here!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Feb 18, 2011 - 03:34pm PT
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Wow! Most trip reports get me jazzed, but this exceeds them all.
Thanks.
John
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nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
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Feb 18, 2011 - 05:03pm PT
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I'm not sure if it came through in my original post, but I think this adventure is awesome, if I was a woman I would want to do you both, and I love the spray.
Err... after re-reading that I guess it could be taken the wrong way!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 18, 2011 - 05:18pm PT
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Bitchin' man. Just bitchin'!!!
+1
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Feb 18, 2011 - 05:28pm PT
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Nice Job guys, full on conditions and all!
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Feb 18, 2011 - 07:31pm PT
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So what is pullharder.org? Is it your personal site? a club site? Can others join?
Nice reports of other winter adventures...
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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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Feb 19, 2011 - 02:11am PT
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Years ago, we were a small group of climbing partners who were going out and getting it done on a regular basis. We all had endless psyche, and great attitudes. One day, Shay and Nate started the blog and the rest has just been fun.
The group of people who post has varied over time as people moved, new awesome people joined our circle of friends and went on blog worthy adventures, etc. The "Who" section is a little outdated at this point, but funny, so we leave it. There are a lot of inside jokes, including the name of the site, but we're not a club. We're mostly just San Diego locals who like to play hard on the weekends and not take ourselves too seriously (for instance see the winter ukelele ascent of Whitney or the full moon ascent of The Vampire in cloaks).
Some of us focus on playing in the High Sierra year round (like Nate and Shay), and others are more focused on long hard free routes (like Roberto and I), but all of us absolutely love climbing and sharing the psyche. There's nothing better than helping someone pull harder...
Josh
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Feb 19, 2011 - 02:27am PT
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You guys rock, always love catching up on your adventures.
Side note, you are super inspiring as a group and its partially because of your accomplishments and attitudes that I lost 25 pounds and have realized goals I never thought possible at this stage in my life :)
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D.Eubanks
Big Wall climber
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Feb 19, 2011 - 02:39am PT
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MAN, you guys Know how to put it down.
Climbing, TR, and ALL really GOOD STUFF!!!
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Feb 19, 2011 - 04:11am PT
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Thank you for clarifying Josh. I read other trip reports on your site a year or so ago (I was just starting hiking/climbing back than), and enjoyed them a lot. Especially the whole "not taking yourself serious" part and going for it in pirate etc outfits on Lone Pine Peak haha. Williamson report with wind storm also stands out in my memory. Nice to see you all going strong! Keep spraying! and safe climbing to you all!
-V
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Feb 19, 2011 - 03:53pm PT
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You guys are upping the ante again. And you already had the thing pretty damn high!
Perfect conditions, jeez. A rare January to be this good, so of course you nailed a mighty big traverse. Friends from Santa Cruz snuck up El Cap that weekend too! I've skied all over the Sierra, pretty much everywhere, but kept ignoring this canyon even though it has been a summer home to me. Something about seeing the texture of the snow, though, and I'm grabbing my skis.
The 3-D thing is pretty graphic. Hoping I can adapt it to PPT for a show I'm working on right now. Thanks.
As ever, thanks for the stoke!
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snowey
Trad climber
San Diego
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Author's Reply
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Feb 21, 2011 - 01:05pm PT
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Thanks for the kind words! Doug, drop us an email and we can figure out a way to export the 3D tour for slideshow purposes.
In other news: We were ice climbing at Lee Vining this weekend and conditions were great. It was gorgeous up there after the storm.
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Feb 21, 2011 - 01:15pm PT
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Josh, did you ever get my email in regards to Totem Cams?
Great TR. That good block of weather sure did allow great stuff to get done this season!
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