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thedogfather
Trad climber
Somewhere near Red Rocks
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 5, 2014 - 03:17pm PT
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Discuss - this was just on fb
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Talking to Alex Honnold right now as he drives out of The Needles, Ca where he just soloed Romantic Warrior!! He says: "it was quite an undertaking actually." Congrats Honnold, you the f*+#ing man!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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I'd love to hear more about it. Always though Reardons ascent one of those bad ass stories you hear at the campfire.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Probably took him about 45 mintues too. I was just over there weekend before last (albeit on the far less studly South Face). A crazy, wild place. Can't imagine doing something that hard, ropeless, in that setting. Never got a chance to talk to Michael about it either after his climb. Just mindblowing.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Oakland, CA
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First free solo of Romantic Warrior, nice!
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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What a grand achievement!
It would be nice if this thread stays about Honnold's
Solo and less about anything else. It only serves to
detract from a great adventure, worthy.of it's own legs.
Congrats to Alex! Wow....just wow!
TY
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bran_daid
Trad climber
la, ca
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wow, that is so gnar.
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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It would be nice if this thread stays about Honnold's
Solo and less about anything else.
But then it wouldn't be ST. This is going to turn into a debate as to whether or not Reardon soloed RW.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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U-wall and Romantic Warrior
not a bad week
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MikeL
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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A remarkable achievement. Whew!
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Dude is an absolute granite maestro . . . Oh yeah, he is like that on all varieties of stone.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Onsight solo of Romantic Warrior (V 5.12b) which National Geographic gave Michael "Adventurer of the Year for in 2005
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dhayan
climber
los angeles, ca
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Not impressed, I'm actually starting to dislike this guy.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Sounds like you're one cool cat dhayan. Folks who know you must feel honored.
Romantic Warrior, I would LOVE to do that route. AND U-Wall?
Some folks have all the fun.
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katiebird
climber
yosemite
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Why is it that we romanticize soloing so much?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Isn't it because it takes a very high level of mental mastery of the game and also has a very high baseline requirement for physical mastery? (response to KB)
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Amazing! Having been on that route before, it's really an amazing feat. It kinda weirds me out to think about. Kudos to Alex.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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We don't all romanticize soloing Katiebird. Some of us, it just makes feel kind of sad.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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katiebird asked Why is it that we romanticize soloing so much?
Why is it that we romanticize anything that we ourselves cannot do?
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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To quote Charlie Porter and Alpinist magazine, link here.. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web14x/wfeature-charlie-porter-introduction
"As Porter himself said in a rare 1993 Rock & Ice interview, climbing was always a "very personal thing." In his Yosemite days, it was simply a "neat game with no written rules, a game of one-upmanship." Climbing had a "mystical aura," and he and the Valley climbers of the era were "romantics"—in love with the freedom to trace their own epic poems upon the polished grey stone."
Seems like Alex is doing the same thing, climbing at a level so far beyond.
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WBraun
climber
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Even a dog knows exactly what's going to happen if he comes off too high .....
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