Hikes Through the No-Falling Zone

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Kartch

climber

belgrade, mt

Mar 27, 2007 - 03:31pm PT

Here's a pic of my brother hiking in the no-fall zone up the SW Couloir Middle Teton.

Wild Bill

climber

Mar 27, 2007 - 03:52pm PT

Slabs approach to half dome.

If we're talking descents too, then North Dome gully is up there. Same with Five Open Books, the usual descent to the south. It's way mungie, and nearly always wet and grassy. So you're walking on wet grass, then downclimbing some exposed slab. In some spots you just have to jump or slide down to a small ledge.

G_Gnome

Boulder climber

Sick Midget Land

Mar 27, 2007 - 04:32pm PT

Chiloe, I haven't ever done The Vision. We almost did it last year but a beach session broke out instead. The walk off Pywiak would be a brutal fall too. We were once walking down and there was a guy leading his girlfriend up the downclimb. They looked at us like wtf!

426

Sport climber

Buzzard Point, TN

Mar 28, 2007 - 09:34am PT

Yeah, Chiloe, that downclimb is circuitous and tricky...did you look at Croft's nasty "lil'" thing up above while you were there?

Patrick Sawyer

climber

Originally California now Ireland

Mar 28, 2007 - 10:02am PT

I second, make that third (in more ways than one), the Leaning Tower approach

Elcapfool, are you referring to the hike up to Snake Dike? Jim Keating and I ran into a couple of rattlers on that one (okay, so there wasn’t any no-fall factor, though the slabs can be dicey, but it did make the approach a bit more exciting – and nervy).

In June, 1975, a real, real, real nice guy fell in the no-fall zone on the approach to the West Face of El Cap and the Navy helicopter sent in to pick up his body crashed after hoisting his body aboard. I think I recall it was about 200 feet in the air when it went down and you could see the smoke burning from it from El Cap Meadow. Amazingly, if I recall it, none of the (six, I think) crew members sustained any serious injuries.

I didn’t mention his name because I don’t think it is necessary. I really only mention it because, as we all well know, there are consequences to third and fourth class scrambling.

And bicycling on the streets of Dublin… a very unfriendly town for riding a bike. Just saw a bicyclist get hit by a taxi in front of our office. He’s not badly injured by the looks of the paramedics' treatment.

I apologise for the thread drift, but I have been in collision with a car in this town and would probably be dead if it weren't for my helmet, which was cracked all the way through. And several time buses have nearly creamed me.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2007 - 12:37pm PT

426:
Yeah, Chiloe, that downclimb is circuitous and tricky...did you look at Croft's nasty "lil'" thing up above while you were there?

Don't recall checking that out. My old-time partner and I were pretty stoked to have just done another Kamps-Higgins classic.

wootles

climber

Gamma Quadrant

Mar 29, 2007 - 02:05pm PT

snakefoot

climber

cali

Mar 29, 2007 - 03:57pm PT

Chiloe, are you climbing on sat, i'm hittin the wind tunnel fri day in nashua and lookin to climb some choss if your up

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 29, 2007 - 05:42pm PT

According to plan I'll be sitting on an airplane all day Saturday, and on the left coast at day's end. Not a climbing trip although I hope to visit an old climbing friend along the way. Back by next weekend, keep in touch.

Wootles, that's definitely the no-falling zone. I like the sky.

Raydog

Trad climber

Boulder

Mar 29, 2007 - 05:49pm PT

went up the hummocks to do the Arrowhead Arete once with Tucker, he was wearing Birkies, man that was a no falling zone for sure.

montanaclimber

Trad climber

Marysville, MT

Mar 31, 2007 - 05:53pm PT

Sweet pics of The Waltz!

426

Sport climber

Buzzard Point, TN

Apr 1, 2007 - 01:44pm PT

Chiloe, understandable...

How could we leave out....

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2007 - 12:50am PT

Izzat Werner, by any chance?

scuffy b

climber

The town that Nature forgot to hate

Apr 5, 2007 - 12:11pm PT

Too bad he's got such a small chalkbag.

climber

The Rebel L Gang

Apr 5, 2007 - 12:18pm PT

And his chalkbag matches his shoes!!! What's with the Fashion Statement, Werner?

Wootles, that is an awesome pix you posted above. The rock looks ominous, to say the least, and then that great breaking sky. Very nice.