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Bossmom
climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 29, 2015 - 04:00am PT
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How difficult is the descent? I'm not the most comfortable on walking across narrow ledges.
Would appreciate recent reports or photos of the descent.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Jul 29, 2015 - 05:50am PT
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Take this...it will guide you down unharmed.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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Jul 29, 2015 - 06:18am PT
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Roger will be deeply offended if you report the slightest tinge of apprehension. please cowgirl up.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Jul 29, 2015 - 06:42am PT
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Easy peasy...some scree. No big deal. Just be careful, as always.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 29, 2015 - 07:41am PT
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Simple, completely top-down and intuitive.
If you can do the approach,you'll. nail the descent!
I onsighted it at age 16, in Adidas roms's, before the days of sticky rubber, or approach shoes
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 29, 2015 - 07:55am PT
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It's kinda like the descent of K2 according to Weld_it, only easier.
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Jul 29, 2015 - 08:03am PT
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Did Cosmic nail it? Gawd I hope yer wrong. :-/
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darkmagus
Mountain climber
San Diego, CA
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Jul 29, 2015 - 08:25am PT
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Surely you're gonna die.
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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Jul 29, 2015 - 08:31am PT
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Just follow the crowd.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jul 29, 2015 - 03:52pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Video beats photos, and recent doesn't matter because it doesn't change (except with snow and that should not be there this time of year).
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Jul 29, 2015 - 05:23pm PT
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Locker, you seem more interested than most on the back and forth regarding suprema...
kettle=black=derp
Waiting for backlash, in
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DM88T
climber
free solos 3rd class
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Jul 29, 2015 - 09:20pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 29, 2015 - 09:26pm PT
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Let's get Vitaliy's take. He knows the area well.
Better than Weld_it? Really?
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Bad Climber
climber
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Jul 30, 2015 - 06:26am PT
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To be honest, as that GoPro nightmare video shows, there is some mildly exposed scrambling, but if this makes you nervous, you can use a rope until the terrain is acceptable to you unroped. I did this descent last year, and I found a couple of spots where I was VERY careful, but these pass quickly. Contrary to the ribbing you get from this crowd, there's no shame in using a cord if the fall potential is significant. I repeated the S.E. Butt after many, many years. And I took a noob up and down. He--a very young 18 yr. old going on 15--did great. He did drop the rope once while belaying, and I gave him some serious sh#t for that, but we got up okay. Given his tendency to space out, I was nervous about the down climbing, but he turned out to be pretty good at it, so no worries. I did lower him off the summit block; then I down climbed. Take your time. You'll be fine. Thousands have gone before you! You'll pass their bones on the way down. :)
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