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Brian

climber

California

Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 31, 2012 - 10:16pm PT

Caldwell: Last night we found a new sequence around the move that shut me down for the last 2 years!!! THIS COULD BE HUGE!!

I'd rather follow this project on Supertopo than the fecking election, of which I've had a bellyfull.

Anyone in the Valley with other updates? I've been cruising the Eastside these past few weeks and so haven't been around.

Brian

Roxy

Trad climber

CA Central Coast

Oct 31, 2012 - 10:26pm PT

O interesting thread, stay on the front page...

Meagher

Trad climber

Reno, NV

Oct 31, 2012 - 11:27pm PT

Bump for some updates.

BASE104

Social climber

An Oil Field

Oct 31, 2012 - 11:49pm PT

Is he really up there again?

I was getting afraid that he would get old and full of tendonitis before he solved it.

Tommy amazes me. I have aided some of that stuff, and how it goes free is beyond my comprehension.

this just in

climber

north fork

Nov 1, 2012 - 12:07am PT

Hell yeah, hope they get it this year. Thanks for the update.

jcory86

Big Wall climber

Grass Valley, CA

Nov 1, 2012 - 11:43am PT

bump.
Anyone know how long they're planning on working it this season?

k-man

Gym climber

SCruz

Nov 1, 2012 - 11:49am PT

Forecast is for rain today.

Then perfect autumn climbing weather!

I'd love to know/hear more about this project...

RP3

Big Wall climber

El Portal/Chapel Hill

Nov 1, 2012 - 11:51am PT

Go Tommy Go!

couchmaster

climber

pdx

Nov 1, 2012 - 12:03pm PT

Any pictures of TC on anything? bump to the top.

Plaidman

Trad climber

South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA

Nov 1, 2012 - 12:06pm PT

Right on! Go Tommy!

limpingcrab

Trad climber

the middle of CA

Nov 1, 2012 - 12:42pm PT

These are a few years old but entertaining

BruceAnderson

Social climber

Los Angeles currently St. Antonin, France

Nov 1, 2012 - 12:43pm PT

He's got an on-form partner with Siegrist, would love to hear some updates....

michaeld

Sport climber

Sacramento

Nov 1, 2012 - 12:44pm PT

Wishin them luck this season!

TwistedCrank

climber

Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho

Nov 1, 2012 - 12:50pm PT

How TC finds ways to climb things.


	Credit: TwistedCrank

Plaidman

Trad climber

South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA

Nov 3, 2012 - 02:38pm PT

Any news on this thread? The weather shouldn't be a factor.

johntp

Trad climber

socal

Nov 3, 2012 - 10:00pm PT

bumpy...

QITNL

climber

Nov 3, 2012 - 10:11pm PT

Nov 1 update:
http://www.jstarinorbit.com/

T Hocking

Trad climber

Redding, Ca

Nov 3, 2012 - 10:18pm PT

Did he use a bolt as a foothold at about 2:20 in part 2?
Me thinks so.

Jimmy Russells

climber

Nov 4, 2012 - 02:44pm PT

So KJ is off the project? Maybe once Seigrist gets the route more dialed they could bring KJ back into the mix and try and redpoint it as a team of three. Maybe even drag along a fourth person as a subbie handling all the logistical wall stuff.

Peter Haan

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Nov 4, 2012 - 04:00pm PT

thanks QITNL for Siegrist's url. Really good reports there

Guangzhou

Trad climber

Asia, Indonesia, East Java

Nov 4, 2012 - 09:06pm PT

Amazing effort and fortitude for sure.

QITNL

climber

Nov 13, 2012 - 08:13pm PT

http://www.rockandice.com/news/2350-caldwell-siegrist-and-jorgeson-make-dawn-wall-progress

http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews1.lasso?l=2&keyid=40278

Karl Baba

Trad climber

Yosemite, Ca

Nov 13, 2012 - 08:53pm PT

Totally rad. Anyone who says the younger generations don't have it going on is a codger.

Is it the Dawn Wall Project or Mescalito project or mescadawn? or ?? I'm confused

Peace

karl

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.

Nov 13, 2012 - 09:27pm PT

Dawnalito?

Clint Cummins

Trad climber

SF Bay area, CA

Nov 13, 2012 - 09:34pm PT

Mescadawn.
Saw lights up there on Saturday night; Tommy's van is parked at El Cap Meadow....

Brian

climber

California

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2012 - 09:35pm PT

Thanks for the news.

Bump.

Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber

San Francisco

Nov 13, 2012 - 09:53pm PT

The monkeys are sendin!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=111364392360198

BASE104

Social climber

An Oil Field

Nov 13, 2012 - 10:10pm PT

What does the weather look like?

le_bruce

climber

Oakland, CA

Nov 13, 2012 - 10:26pm PT

It was cold on Fri night and Sat, warmed up starting on Sunday. We saw someone jugging lines above the twin portaledges at some point yesterday. Lots of lines fixed in all kinds of directions up there.

Must have been cold up there during the snap.

WBraun

climber

Nov 13, 2012 - 10:41pm PT

Some tourist comes into the SAR yard Sunday and tells me he wants to make a report on some climbers on El Cap in trouble.

He says they haven't moved and the tents are hanging up there.

I tell him it's Tommy's stuff.

"Are they all right?" he asks.

I said NO!.

"Why?"

"Anyone who pitches his tent way up there must be not in his right mind". ...

He then left.

:-)

Gilroy

Social climber

Boulderado

Nov 13, 2012 - 10:49pm PT

Hahahaha!! Go Team Siegewell!! Forealz!!

klk

Trad climber

cali

Nov 13, 2012 - 10:50pm PT

ok, that's pretty funny.

Peter Haan

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Nov 13, 2012 - 11:31pm PT

Damnit it Werner, you could have at least respected the touron's intent to be helpful, fish out of water as he was.

karodrinker

Trad climber

San Jose, CA

Nov 14, 2012 - 01:27am PT

Werner, you speak the literal truth, those guys are not in their right mind! Amazing confidence to climb up there.

michaeld

Sport climber

Sacramento

Nov 14, 2012 - 01:36am PT

Werner lol

Clint Cummins

Trad climber

SF Bay area, CA

Nov 14, 2012 - 01:43am PT

Perfect, Werner!

Brian

climber

California

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2012 - 10:57am PT

Will there be time for a ground to summit push? Seems like they are getting close to a possible team free ascent where at least one guy leads every pitch... It would be cool to see this go down. Glad to see they are still at it, still psyched, and still having fun.