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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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@ Crunch
Hey Jaan, nice photo of Nick Donnelly!
Yeah, you must have known him... here's another:
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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I wounder if this is a disciple of Weld_it?
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aguacaliente
climber
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seems like it's been done before
so maybe expand the horizons to new challenges, as Donini would say.
first winter rappel of El Cap!
Toni Kurz-style, practice passing your knots
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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First speed rappel of El Cap?
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Mark Not-circlehead
climber
Martinez, CA
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Not only has it been done before (it seems every ten or fifteen years someone comes to the Valley to do it for the 1st time), but I think there is almost always a YOSAR involvement.
I remember the guy who died one year, and I think another guy had to be rescued up high on a different event , as the weight of 3000' of rope is unbelievable, and hence the amount of friction needed changes significantly from top to bottom of the rappel.
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jewedlaw
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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When you pull the rope, do you still try to catch the end?
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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When you pull the rope, do you still try to catch the end?
bahahaha
I'll be in the meadow with popcorn and beer for this one....
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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"Not only has it been done before (it seems every ten or fifteen years someone comes to the Valley to do it for the 1st time), but I think there is almost always a YOSAR involvement."
Bull! You actually know how many times ElCap has been rapped? The weight of 3000' of rope is unbelievable or about 240lb depending on your math.
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WBraun
climber
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Meh .....
3000 footers on spools back in the early 70's.
Nothing new at all ...... :-)
Connected to these guys
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OR
Trad climber
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Quote The day Blanchard blasted off, there was a kid running around the base with a piece of the guy's skull, sitting on a sheet of aluminum foil . . . he was just walking up to total strangers - thrusting it under their noses and going off about it. . . ten kinds of proud, as if he'd found an arrowhead or something.
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Good lord, I do remember some version of that story. There was supposed to be some spot at the base that if you moved a rock there was a part of the victims jaw with some teeth. It was there for a year or so. Part urban myth I'm sure but.....................
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
Reno, Nevada
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I've done lots of caving with Peter Bosted in Roppel Cave, although not for a few years. He certainly never mentioned anything about a rapping accident on El Cap.
"WHAT? Are you new?" - Jim Bridwell quote
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
Reno, Nevada
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Yeah, eKat. He (jb) said this to me many times when I WAS new, ha haa.
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Matt's
climber
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bump for a 3000ft rope!
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Johnny K.
climber
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I bet Werner could lead El Cap in one pitch with 4 pieces and that sweet 3,000 ft static line
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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i might have made that comment to bridwell when he was new
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2013 - 10:11pm PT
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I knew people who were with they guy who died, that led to to the development of very long racks. The average is 24 inches, but our leader had one 36 inches. It turned out well, no fatalities.
I had a ball hanging with Eric Sloan at the bridge. I think he enjoyed listening to the radio chatter.
We did have an incident the first day. One of our team members broke a finger on his control hand. This lead to him being tethered like a duffel bag below our intrepid leader who used his 36 inch rack to rappel them both down safely. Twenty minutes and a half hour hike out and he was at the medical center getting it x-rayed.
The next guy did it in three minutes. No one was happy with the condition of the rope after that, but it was still safe and used the rest of the week.
I'll post more later.
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2013 - 10:14pm PT
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Seirra Ledge Rat, my dad now has a house at the end of the road where you used to park for Hangem High. Most people park at Mudpuppy's just down the street because he cooks for them.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jul 23, 2013 - 10:18pm PT
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Sounds like a blast!
Pics and vid please!
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Jul 23, 2013 - 10:22pm PT
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The next guy did it in three minutes. No one was happy with the condition of the rope after that, but it was still safe and used the rest of the week.
Bwaaaahahahahahahah . . . yeah right!
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2013 - 02:36pm PT
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Here is my attempt to post a photo of two of our team climbing the rope.
Their time was 1 hour 54 minuts. Then next team climbed in one hour 53 minutes. The record, set in 2004, was one hour eight minutes by Peter Hurtle. He lives at altitude, the rest of us live at < 1000 feet.
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