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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Awesome. Thanks for a great TR on one of THE classic all-time Yosemite routes.
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Nohea
Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
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Mar 17, 2007 - 06:07am PT
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Bravo!
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joane
climber
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Mar 17, 2007 - 09:12am PT
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What a super "presentation!!! it was a real pleasure to look through all of the photos and your notes on them. I'm hoping to look up the climb's topo here and learn more about it. I also liked the extra posts you followed up on in talking about some of the climb memories. Big blue skies, the best to climb under, and lots of daylight too, so nice. THANKS
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 17, 2007 - 11:32am PT
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Great TR from an ultraclassic line. I remember doing that route with Paul Davidson a quarter cnetury ago and laboring away for a full twelve hour day to collapse on the summit with the sun already setting. Searching around in the register, the first entry that I see is from Kauk and Bridwell a few days prior. "2 1/2 hours. Nice route. Speed City." Sigh.
We gathered up our pride and anything else that might have been laying around on the ground and headed for the Valley floor.
As the tale goes, there used to be an original can of Salathe's bivi food tucked away in a crack under the Narrows. I wonder what ever became of that little curiousity? I couldn't find it when I went by.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 17, 2007 - 11:50am PT
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Fine photo-TR of this legendary route. And approach. I've never climbed Sentinel, but stories about the approach and descent sometimes sound more intimidating than the Narrows.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 17, 2007 - 09:35pm PT
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Neither is really reason to miss out on the SS or West Face! Just long routes with lots of adventure. You can stare up at the thing from Camp Four only so long before you gotta check it out.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 18, 2007 - 01:22am PT
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about as good as it gets, burlyness is it's own reward.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Mar 18, 2007 - 01:31pm PT
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Burly man....burly.
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John Moosie
climber
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Mar 18, 2007 - 11:38pm PT
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Bump to keep it on the front page. Great trip report. Bigtime thanks !!!
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westhegimp
Social climber
granada hills
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Mar 19, 2007 - 12:15am PT
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Thanks for the TR! Awesome pics. Keep them comming please. Wes
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WBraun
climber
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Bump
Somehow missed this beauty of a thread. A classic.
Thanks Steelmnkey.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Varied locales along the time and space continuum
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I somehow missed this one too. Mille grazie! Anything with Inez and Brutus has gotta be good and you certainly delivered, steelmnkey.
Fletch
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Bump for Steck, saw him at Andronico's market on Solano last weekend--still looks strong and wiry....cool trip report.
Couldn't do the route years ago when I was stronger....
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HalHammer
Trad climber
CA
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Was hard but not as bad as people make it out to be. We started at 5 A.M. and finished in just under 11 hours. We weren't that experienced with wide cracks, but luckily the protection was usually pretty forgiving when it got burly. Pretty much just a long physicial climb. If you are in decent shape and feel solid on 5.9 it shouldn't be too bad. Doing the NEB of Higher the week before was good prep for us. The EB of El Cap was good too. I liked the comparison that it would be like doing the NEB with Braile Book Stacked on top. The approach and descent weren't really any worse than the spires gully.
We carried small camelbacks and wore helmets, plus our shoes tied to our waist. The helmets were annoying in the narrows and in a tighter squeeze section above the wilson overhang but other than that we were fine.
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David Nelson
climber
San Francisco
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Real climbing on a climbing site! Great pix and comments. Got some of the old timers to remember their climbs, too. Keep 'em coming.
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john hansen
climber
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Steve G,, was that the famous can of figs? Chicken Skinner would kill for that one..
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Texplorer
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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thanks for the post, brings back some good memories of one of my favorite climbs.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Otto, NC
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Thanks! We should all be so lucky as to climb with a pre-laid supper. I was thinking "wow, 3 people, ambitious' but then I saw that the man had a plan...
I'm bumping the real deal, with no apologies to political ranters, Paris Hilton fer chrissakes, and all that other crap.
Long live climbing on the Taco!
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Kyle Marks
Trad climber
Sacramento
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Sep 22, 2015 - 05:23pm PT
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Seems like the links to these photos are broken? Any way I can still see them. Would be really helpful for my friend and I on the approach beta.
Thanks!
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