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Denise Umstot
climber
Princess of the El Cap Bridge!
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Pass the Piton Pete...You sure you were on Bad Seed and not some bad weed! There is no way you could climb that in 10:12!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Whatever do you mean, Princess of the Bridge? I timed it myself. Ten days and twelve hours.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Pete, quit friggin around and finish the TRs. work to be done.
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Denise Umstot
climber
Princess of the El Cap Bridge!
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Pass the Piton Pete...Hahahaha You were moving...you are my hero :)
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Prod
Trad climber
Dodge Sprinter Dreaming
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When I was new (newer) to this forum I remember hearing about how SLOW PTPP was. Then I looked af Hans' page and was also confused...
Prod.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Top of the 5.2-5.12 Boulder
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Pete is slow on purpose. All good.
I dunno about that "hans page". Hiya, Prod!
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Prod
Trad climber
Dodge Sprinter Dreaming
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Happy New YEars Skully!
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Slakkey
Big Wall climber
From Back to Big Wall Baby
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I agree with Munge, Pete we want TRs :)
Edt, Pete its not nice to fool the Fair Maiden of the El Cap Bridge
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Nor is it nice [if you wanna git any] to undersell the Princess as a mere maiden.
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Denise Umstot
climber
Princess of the El Cap Bridge!
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Mere maiden I am not...PTPP knows best!
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Ben Doyle
climber
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Feb 21, 2011 - 02:16pm PT
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Wow, those are great photos of tribal rite! You mind if I use them for a web site im building for an html class?
Ben Doyle
bejaminjdoyle@gmail.com
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Feb 21, 2011 - 05:18pm PT
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good story about Tribal Rite.
In my years of experience on El Cap, I found that your exact location is highly sensitive to how bad a storm will seem.
When Steve Quinlan and I did Tribal Rite, it stormed every day, but it didn't really slow us down, not because we were bad-ass (but of course we were), but also because the storm was predominately coming in from down-valley, and we were sheltered by the Nose shielding us on our left.
There were no climbers on the left side during that storm.
On the other hand, when I climbed Cosmos with Jimmy Dunn, we were in probably the worst position when a fierce storm hit--completely exposed on all sides at a point where the wall was overhanging below us, sloping above us, and sticking out on both left and right from other parts of the wall. We got slammed. We led two more pitches in the storm in fierce winds and icy sleet, and got to an overhang, where all was calm, and we bivied for a couple nights while the storm passed.
I found the same type of phenomena on the right side. Some places were relatively sheltered, and others completely exposed, but not always obvious which were which until an actual storm hit.
It's a whole 'nother ecosystem up there.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Feb 21, 2011 - 06:54pm PT
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Pretty light compared to all you heavies but we did the WFLT and I worried and worried about everything the night before, and on the hike up, and as I was tying in-but when I clipped that first bolt and stood on that aider all those scaries went away. I'll never forget how that felt.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Feb 21, 2011 - 07:30pm PT
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My best? Every one that involved summiting.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 21, 2011 - 09:46pm PT
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Best experience is hard to pinpoint, but my mind keeps coming back to topping out on Iron Hawk after my first solo of El Cap. I purposely chose a route that was longer and harder than anything I had yet climbed, and was pretty gripped the whole time.
Ben - no problem. Send me the link when you're finished. Cheers.
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Feb 21, 2011 - 11:49pm PT
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with only a few El Caps routes to my credit can't compare with you heavys but Zodiac with my bro Fowler (murry) was pure fun , laughing joking just being the fools- unlike our last venture on a failed P.O. attempt where that mean 'ol sun baked us to a crisp. Got to get back on that horse Murry.
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Scole
Trad climber
San Diego
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Feb 24, 2011 - 08:56am PT
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Hanging out on my ledge all afternoon at the base of the Triple Cracks on the Shield on my 30th b-day, 10th E.C. rt, and first solo. I had every treat you can imagine, a big bag of the Yosemite Remedy, plenty of good beer, and my famous El Cap Chicken Dijon.
With the triple cracks fixed (but not cleaned)I was surrounded by color, blue sky, puffy white clouds and golden stone, with pink, purple, and blue flowers. The pitch above was strung with every color of tie-off material available in the mtn. shop, and a Hollywood Rattlesnake tying it all together.
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OR
Trad climber
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:57am PT
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Getting off Zodiac in 1993 in March after a 3 day sufferfest of rain and sleet.
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