As funny as that sounds, the guys who skied the cable route on Half Dome belayed it for the skier and the belayer rapped each "pitch". There was an incredibly cool old movie about it with both members rapping the bare granite patches.
I wish I remembered the film's name, it was presented before Jeff Lowe did a slide show around 1979.
I thought everyone might enjoy these pics I took last week.
What lake is this?
Notice the snowcats at work.
Alright alright.. Back on topic. Here are some shots that are shockingly similar to the Iphone versions I put up on our funarama day a couple weeks ago. They are wider and I think they have better colour.
Funarama Crag
Sandra rapping of squatter's rights with the sheriff's badge prominent in the background.
Jimmy Sinclair duzzn't look a year older, well, okay maybe 1, then when I first met him the summer of 1977. That's SICK !!! Whattiz IN that tobacco he smokes? :-) ?
Cool Photos Big Mike! Except I'm a ghost in that one of me an Kieran?? Real fun day good to see a bunch of supertopropers & lurkers out there.
Big deal drinking at 230 Relic, your a grown up, should be doing that everyday. Luke is just a kid & look at him, at the crag he was drinking beer & eating roast beef curtains with Yorkshire & gravy at noon today, chasing the whole deal with rapid fire joints. I woulda been black out too but had to drive to whistler after climbing :-)
Oh Tami, you're even more behind the times than I am. No one coils anymore. They just stuff it into a big purse like instrument called a rope burrito. The "mountaineers coil" is now reserved for costume parties and Anders 60th birthday.
The "ground anchor" was a new one to me so I googled it. Sure enough it is now mandatory for all outdoor enthusiasts. Big Jim is up on it due to its applications in securing deck chairs, rope burritos and coolers (eskies down undah ) at the base of the crag
So if I went to the crag now and coiled my rope I'd get the stuffin' knocked or picked out of me as though I had burst a large boil into someone's beer?
Hahahaha.. Coils have fallen out it seems. Some nasty rumor about them causing the rope to twist and kink. The kids these days use butterfly coils typically... Rope bags are a nice cragging option too...
It was the day for Crime redpoint attempts it seems and Kyle went for his.
He squeaked it out.
Then Marc Andre cruises up with his shoes and chalk bag and calmly jumps on it...
It was the first time he fourth classed it.
He got Kyle to leave up his rope so he could swing over the wet patch to penny lane and finish up. Then he had to get down somehow so he broke out the duffersitz
LOL Marc you only did it because I mentioned it before the solo didn't you!! :)
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