Astroman - Rostrum Link-up

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katiebird

climber

yosemite

Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 10, 2018 - 02:28pm PT

Who's done it?

Mike Bolte

Trad climber

Planet Earth

Oct 10, 2018 - 04:00pm PT

Peter Croft did in in 1987 and Honnold 20 years after that. Goes pretty fast cordless it seems...

EDIT: thought that might be you greg, er, frostback...

shylock

Social climber

Oct 10, 2018 - 04:03pm PT

Tried a couple years ago, a party of 3 aiding on the rostrum ended up being our excuse to bail. Did the crux and then walked out from the midway ledge as it was getting dark.

Too much driving imo to be inspiring enough to try again. I guess you could bike. Having trouble thinking of other cool linkups tho.. hmm.....

WBraun

climber

Oct 10, 2018 - 05:04pm PT

One morning I got a partner to jumar the whole Nose for a NIAD.

We got to sickle and he freaked out and wanted to bail.

I was pissed.

So I told him I'm going over to astroman now and will find a partner.

He said he'll jumar that and we went.

Then I said I'm going over to the Rostrum to do that now and will find partner.

He said he'll go there too.

We went and I called the day Rostroman .....

Chief

climber

The NW edge of The Hudson Bay

Oct 10, 2018 - 08:53pm PT

Fosburg and I swung leads on this classic link up in the early nineties.
The weather was pretty warm so we started with the Rostrum and waited till Astroman swung into the shade to start up.
One of the best days ever.

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Boulder climber

ne'er–do–well

Oct 11, 2018 - 12:08am PT

We got to sickle and he freaked out and wanted to bail.

I was pissed.

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nopantsben

climber

europe

Oct 11, 2018 - 02:03am PT

I followed Niels Tietze on this link-up in 2013 after doing the West Face of El Cap the same day.
He freed everything easily, I fell on the offwidth of the Rostrum and on two pitches on Astroman. It sort of adds up towards the end.

That was definitely the best day of climbing I've had. I miss Niels.

Rhodo-Router

Gym climber

sawatch choss

Oct 11, 2018 - 07:30am PT

Alix did it but I think that might have been the start of her shoulder issues.

I have not, but it’s an aspiration of mine for sure.

hooblie

climber

from out where the anecdotes roam

Oct 11, 2018 - 08:10am PT

i guess we're not talkin' 31 years ago: astroman in the afternoon, rostrum next morning, riding in the rumbleseat werner on the lead ... now are we?

shylock

Social climber

Oct 12, 2018 - 03:04pm PT

notice on instagram, you're doing it now. awesome!

clode

Trad climber

portland, or

Oct 12, 2018 - 03:12pm PT

Rostroman, that's a good one Werner! I like it!

Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber

San Francisco

Oct 12, 2018 - 04:35pm PT

Tried a couple years ago, a party of 3 aiding on the rostrum ended up being our excuse to bail. Did the crux and then walked out from the midway ledge as it was getting dark.

That was lame. I think we topped out Astroman at 1 30pm with no falls each. In the end we gave those South American guys a ride back to the valley lol. I couldn't believe the two followers were not jumaring but re-aid/french freeing. It was totally weird and super slow. They wanted to do the Salathe....