Homage to Roof Climbing (photo's)

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jack herer

climber

chico, ca

May 24, 2006 - 11:04pm PT

Howbout nice jugs!

GOclimb

Trad climber

Boston, MA

May 24, 2006 - 11:10pm PT

Kansas City at the Gunks:

GO

Tom

Big Wall climber

San Luis Obispo CA

May 25, 2006 - 07:28am PT

The biggest roofs on El Capitan are easily visible from the road. The route that goes through them is Bermuda Dunes.

The photo shows the Salathe Headwall to the left, and the stepped BD roofs to the right.

The route does both of the big roofs, in good cracks. After belaying under the lowest roof (nice bivy, the "Pine Island"), the route goes up and left to a hidden ledge. Then, the Fishhead Crack goes up towards the upper roof and nails to the right - nailing straight up - and the pitch finishes out on the face to the right.

The Heart Roof might be bigger, scoped from the ground. But, up there, the Bermuda Dunes line seemed bigger. Absolutely, the Bermuda Dunes crossing was harder than Son of Heart.

Here is the view from across the Valley.

At the top of the picture, very left, is Excalibur.
A bit to the right is the Salathe Headwall.
And further right is the Bermuda Dunes roofs.

426

Sport climber

Buzzard Point, TN

May 25, 2006 - 07:55am PT

Whose roof?

MikeL

climber

May 25, 2006 - 12:14pm PT

Babble On, my first roof.

And yeah, not such good rope work.

MikeL

hardman

Trad climber

love the eastern sierras

May 25, 2006 - 01:14pm PT

is that on the knob job wall? by the tube

Chairman Meow

Trad climber

SLC, UT

May 25, 2006 - 04:26pm PT

Ron sporting some fluorescent-blue leopard-print tights on the Organasm roof. Photo taken by Zach.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

May 25, 2006 - 04:33pm PT

Thanks Meow.

Yeah, the tights are soooo retro, but when on legit climbs I think its a good idea to wear bright stuff so that the rangers tend to take for granted that climbers are easy to spot.

That's all I'm saying.

MikeL

climber

May 25, 2006 - 05:01pm PT

Hardman: Yes, down to the right a bit from the tube. You can't miss it.

MikeL

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

May 25, 2006 - 05:28pm PT

Too bad we couldn't post that photo until today. Zach and I were watching movies yesterday afternoon with the AC cranked in the 98 degree heat when we saw this thread.

We went into the garage, threw 30 cams on a rack, hopped into the kraut sled with the top down, headed towards the canyon stopping to get his camera.
We were on the shuttle at 16:45 and at the base in the shade with "crack AC", the refreshingly cool air that pours from the crack 40 minutes later.

The shot from the lip was made about 18:50.

Thats when I ran low and had to leapfrog 10m to the belay which wouldn't be so bad if I had 2 pieces the right size instead of just 1.

Zach did a great job of following his biggest roof yet, self belayed. After the lip (with nothing left to clean) he did the space rappel and we were back on the shuttle before dark.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

May 5, 2009 - 11:15pm PT

Shlt 3 years just like that.

But for those that think they're good on roofs consider the following;
The weaver ant can traverse the underside of a horizontal sheet of glass loaded with 100X its own weight.

rgold

Trad climber

Poughkeepsie, NY

May 6, 2009 - 03:05pm PT

Back in the day shot of a still-cool old classic (Yellow Wall, Gunks):

Even further back...sometime in the early sixties (Roger's Roof, Devil's Lake)

ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber

extraordinaire

Jun 15, 2015 - 09:03pm PT

thebravecowboy

climber

liberated libertine

Jun 15, 2015 - 09:26pm PT

We went into the garage, threw 30 cams on a rack, hopped into the kraut sled with the top down, headed towards the canyon stopping to get his camera.
... and at the base in the shade with "crack AC", the refreshingly cool air that pours from the crack 40 minutes later.

the noob approves