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Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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... every one who doesn't quit, get crippled or dies.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Dihedral Wall;....1980;...first try on el cap;...successful! (I had two failures after that.....oopsie...)
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WBraun
climber
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My very first time I was successful.
It's very easy to do.
I hiked to to the top from Tamarack Flat.
Anyone can do it.
El Cap is easily accessible to anyone even the masses.
Even Yosemite Indian Chief Ula Baba did it in year 40000BC .....
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mynameismud
climber
backseat
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First attempt on El Cap was successful. Met my partner in Camp 4 three days before, he spoke ok English except when mad or scared. A couple of pitches up found out he had never been more than 3 pitches off the deck and that was the day before when we were at the Cookie. We had a homemade haul bag, almost a full set of cams, a 45 meter haul rope, 1 ½ liters of water per person per day, in the middle of July. We were incredibly slow, they did helicopter fly byes to check on us. Brought the bull horns out to El Cap Meadows to check if we needed a rescue ( truthfully we probably did ). I learned that when severely dehydrated Power Bars are inedible.
After that attempt probably at around 50%.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Four virgins on the fourth ascent of the West Face in 1972. …back when it was A4. ;-)
And I'm still four for four.
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Dave Hough
climber
Keene, NY
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Nose first try in November 1975. Suffered a bit and tried out every available bivy ledge, including two nights sitting out snow storm at the Camp 4 bivy. Topped out with six inches of fresh snow on the rim and, for reasons long forgotten, post holed to the top of Yosemite falls trail to get down. Nobody else was on El Cap, in fact there was only one car left in the Camp 4 parking lot. Pretty cool.
Dave
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Mescalito, swinging leads with Rob Brown. Smooth as silk. Other than being a lot of work that one didn't seem hard. First big October front came through the day we got down. I never went back for more.
I have lots of admiration for climbers who do hard aid. Myself? I prefer free climbing and more remote stuff. Just me. It's a matter of taste.
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wayne w
Trad climber
the nw
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Did Zodiac for my first wall, twenty five years ago this Fall. I've only done 16 more ascents of it since then, and each one makes me want to get back up there again.
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Guernica
climber
dark places
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Yup, a successful bid for el zodiac on my first el cap attempt as well! Though it was pre-cleanup, and in all honesty not that difficult. Plenty wild enough for me though!
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Yes, first try NA Wall 1977.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Yes. I am 4 for 5 so far. As I remember...
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macleodnc
Trad climber
ca
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2 for 2 on El Cap with Zodiac as my first bigwall and Lurking Fear a couple months after. 0 for 2 on Liberty Cap though, damn elusive wall! Scarface is scary as hell to try and do clean...
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