elcap-pics
Big Wall climber
Crestline CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 30, 2010 - 09:14am PT
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Yes Hondo and Stanley are now on the 3 EC routes in a day. they started last night and did the nose in 4:17 they are most likely off the Salathe now and headed to Lurking fear if all is going well. I will be down at the bridge in a bit to see what I can see...
ElCap Pics
Update tonight on a special elcap report.... as of 3pm they were on the pillar of dispair... Nose in 4:17 Salathe 6 and change, Lurking fear.. still on it... the previous 3 in a day were Nose LF and West face by steve and Hans.. some question about calling West Face and "El Cap Route" as it is generally considered a grade 5 and this would be three grade 6 climbs... you guys can argue that one out...It is all good ...
Stay tuned
ECP's
Update on the update...
They did it in around 23 hours and were eating pizza at the Curry deck later that evening!
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Denise Umstot
climber
Princess of the El Cap Bridge!
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:43am PT
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Wow...a serious workout!
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fattrad
Mountain climber
GOP Convention
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:50am PT
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el-cap pics, we'll need some pics.
The evil one
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:51am PT
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Wonderful!!
This recent stuff is getting to the point where it is completely foreign actually to the ordinary, even highlevel, climber. I am imagining, nonetheless, that it must be a sort of ecstasy for Alex and Stanley. I so wish I was young again (hah!--- and not 62!) and was a part of such an experience. I know that when you are at the peak of form, so many things that had been painful, hard and ever so burdensome, to tell the truth, have become easy, gentle gestures of nearly perfect understanding---- grace in its highest sense. One's whole body a fine instrument of this terrifying music. It looks like they are doing something better than 1,000 feet per hour maybe?
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:51am PT
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Over 80 pitches of steep climbing in a day. Quite proud!
I hope they do it!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:52am PT
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I did three El Cap routes in a year once!
Dang!
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:54am PT
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w00000t!
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Green Cove slabbage BITD!
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:58am PT
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I gotta check this out!
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Slakkey
Big Wall climber
From Back to Big Wall Baby
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:59am PT
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Hondo is The Man
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 10:01am PT
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That is insane!
Great work, I can't get my mind around this one!
Thor
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 10:08am PT
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Some guys will do anything to avoid working at Conrad's mom's.
Weed-wacking sounds waay easier though.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jun 30, 2010 - 10:11am PT
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Ouch, with recovery time to my body and psyche, my times for those three routes would be approximately...
All Season!
If they were rockets, it's like going to the moon in a day
Peace
Karl
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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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Jun 30, 2010 - 10:20am PT
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How long does the descent take an experienced party like that?
BASE is obviously off-limits in the park (although I don't doubt that it has been used to get down from Half Dome on Dean Potter's linkups...) but does descending from the top take a significant amount of time in something like this?
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Tradmedic
Ice climber
Thunder Bay, Ontario
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Jun 30, 2010 - 10:38am PT
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Hot Damn. That's incredible! Alex has definitely become my hero.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jun 30, 2010 - 10:51am PT
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Way to send!
Damn, that's fast. My last El Cap route took me 16:12 ;)
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jun 30, 2010 - 11:05am PT
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Does that mean the East Buttress is dry enough to climb Pete. I thought you were retired from free climbing?
;-)
Karl
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jun 30, 2010 - 11:08am PT
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East Butt? Wha...? Hell, yeah, I'm retired from free climbing.
Oh, oh, oh .... now I get it. You misread my post, Karl - my ascent was 16 days and 12 hours. ;)
[So I troll this giant jointed Rapala with all these hooks hanging from it, and the very first fish hits it. Of course, I had dipped it in Ganges-flavoured scent]
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Jun 30, 2010 - 11:13am PT
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I could do 3 el cap routes in a day. Pine Line, Gollum Right, and The Footstool Right.
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waulrat
Big Wall climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 11:17am PT
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16 days 12 hours... good one Pete. Easy mistake to make
Alex is a beast, he's making a mockery of El Cap! There I said it...
Haha...really though, 3 routes is an amazing feat! way to go
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fattrad
Mountain climber
GOP Convention
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Jun 30, 2010 - 11:19am PT
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PTPP,
Please catch and release Karl, we love him.
The evil one
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