McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Better get a good nights sleep on the Block because now the route actually gets HARD. That 200' 12d corner is no joke really and neither is the sandbagged, scary as hell 12a traverse but that's ok the next 150' overhanging 5.11d pitch will pump you out just enough for the overhanging 5.11d Scotty Burke OW, grease-fest, horror-show...seriously how many people just rope up and fire that thing first go?
I would really like to see it go down, how awesome would this be but man really it could be 10 years maybe more-I hope I am wrong.
I was just reading somewhere that Ondra came close to onsighting Freerider just before his Dawn Wall climb. He bonked on the headwall. What I read must be on the Ondra thread. I'll find the post when I have more time.
EDIT... From the Ondra is Coming thread: Adam Ondra:
"Salathe was a dream of mine for a long time. A dream of just being up there, feeling the air and exposure of the "headwall" (upper part of Salathe which is the crux), putting my hands into perfect cracks... And to onsight it. Some dreams came true yesterday, but the ultimate - the onsight is not fulfilled. And the nature of onsight is that it will never be fulfilled any more. It is only one try, lots of pressure in case of such a legendary route like Salathe in Yosemite on El Capitan.
Yesterday we started with amazing partner @nicofavresse at 00:01 AM, 7 AM we were up at the "Boulderproblem", 8:30 AM at the Block, still onsighting all. At 1:30 PM we continued through Enduro and the roof and I failed to onsight Headwall pitch 1 in the upper part, on my second go I fell right at the anchor. No more energy to give another try."
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