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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Jun 20, 2010 - 03:53am PT
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PTPP says:
Most of us are appalled at how poorly your average Yosemite wall climber ascends a free-hanging fixed rope.
come one man, we've all seen you jug way slower then the average wall climber many times. ;)
j/k
thanks for explaining the system , it's pretty interesting.
did they let you rap down off Pacemaker?
nice 'send btw
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Scott Cole
Trad climber
Sunny California
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Jun 20, 2010 - 12:22pm PT
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Many climbers a secretly cavers as well. We don't talk about it in polite company, but caving is every bit as demanding as climbing.
Swimming in ice cold water in the dark is almost as much fun as bivying under a waterfall in a storm, and crawling through a horizontal suqeeze chimney for half a mile is a great abdominal workout.
On your next trip to the Tetons, spend a rest day in the Ice/ Wind cave connection.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Feb 12, 2018 - 07:59pm PT
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I rappelled the Nose on December 30th, 2017 and it was a fun day outing. Having climbed El Cap over 30 times previously, I thought it would be a fun adventure, and it was!
I'll post up some photos soon.
Has anybody climbed and rappelled El Cap in 1 day?
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Feb 13, 2018 - 03:16am PT
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There were actually three groups scheduled to do it in 2010. The first group were dweebs who were charging. They nearly had a rope tangle that would have given SAR fits. SAR wound up owning their ropes. The next group was scheduled for the following week and got a cease and desist order. Our group came in for the third week. We were just a group pooling funds and no one was charged. Luckily we got there early enough to work with the park service and our trip happened with one rope. I will be with a group coming to repeat the feat in July. LOL
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Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
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Feb 13, 2018 - 06:05am PT
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Levy posted:
I rappelled the Nose on December 30th, 2017 and it was a fun day outing. Presumably, this was with a normal-length climbing rope and multiple stops - yes?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 13, 2018 - 08:04am PT
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Has anybody climbed and rappelled El Cap in 1 day?
Yes, when Shipoopi's and Hans did three el cap routes in a day they rapped west buttress or something.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Feb 13, 2018 - 11:09am PT
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Sweet video. I’d take that over East Ledges any day.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Feb 13, 2018 - 01:03pm PT
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Sula, Yes, we used two 60 Meter ropes and had an additional rope as a backup incase a rope got irretrievably stuck. We did something like 27 rappels. The act of committing over the lip and getting into the top of the Nose dihedrals was very exciting. The ends of our ropes were swinging out in space on the blunt, rounded buttress where the Central Scrutinizer comes in with some 3,000' of air below.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 13, 2018 - 01:33pm PT
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One regret I have is I never got to do any vertical caving. Those big potholes are something else.
It's a whole nother world down there underground.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 13, 2018 - 03:15pm PT
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And crawling through bat guano.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Feb 14, 2018 - 12:28am PT
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In early high school rappelling was as much fun as the actual climbing. We would clip in from the haul loop and dive off bridges, etc.... I even got suspended for 3 days for rappelling off the catwalk of the school auditorium during a "restroom" pass. If at the time you showed us how to do that sort of stunt we would have been all in 110%. Now...not so much but looks RAD!
Nice video! I was looking for all the features but he was facing Middle a lot so maybe need to just go UP there to see for myself. ;-).
Cheers!!!
S....
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Feb 14, 2018 - 08:50am PT
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Years of climbing - I'm claustrophobic in my own living room. Fuk caving.
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jstan
climber
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Feb 14, 2018 - 12:27pm PT
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In 62 or 63 before I got into climbing I did some caving in NY, WV,IN, & VA. Never do it again. Craziest was a sump I pushed in NY. I would get free of the water just as it started filling the upper nostril which was pushing up against the rock ceiling. Frankly not sane.
Hellhole was fun I must admit however. So I migrated to something safer.
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