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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 30, 2009 - 02:53pm PT
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Deuce has inspired me to not care so much about what order everything is in and whether it's all captioned or not.
Just get 'em up there!
Here's the first installment. I'll have to finish later.
Thanks for looking.
Bruce
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Jan 30, 2009 - 02:54pm PT
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Cool!
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Elcap76
Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
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Jan 30, 2009 - 03:29pm PT
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Very nice photos!
Thanks for sharing.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2009 - 03:29pm PT
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Next installment.
You can see another party in these pix once in awhile.
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BooYah
Social climber
Ruby Range
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Jan 30, 2009 - 03:34pm PT
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This is pretty cool.
Thanks for all the picss.
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Peewee
Trad climber
Quebec
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Jan 30, 2009 - 03:34pm PT
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Fire one Tommy Caldwell to Free climb this route...
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Jan 30, 2009 - 03:39pm PT
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Cool pics. Really can see why it was rarely climbed before the advent of the mongo cams. Like the old garb.
Say, I was glad to see the pic of the Spider's Web. I never had the inclination to take out the camera at this point, but always look up at the thing. It would make a cool climb out the center of it.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2009 - 04:01pm PT
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Yeah John,
I have always loved the spiders web too.
Free climbing..you bet.
Tommy C. , Steve Schneider whoever.
I thought it was burly enough just to free up to 5.10 something!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2009 - 04:05pm PT
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A few more and a few later!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 30, 2009 - 10:30pm PT
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Ah yes, the ghetto blaster in the Round Table - I love that picture of yours. I brought my ghetto blaster too, and of course my coffee press.
How did yous guys outwit the offwidths? You can see how we did it in the portaledge photo above....
Nice photos, mate! Thanks for posting.
I still think Frosty's Claustrophobic Bivi is one of the most amazing places ever on El Cap - I love it! Then again, I'm a caver.....
You can click here to read [url="http://www.rockclimbing.com/photos/Big_Wall/Two_Ugly_Dudes_on_Day_11_-_Photo_1_of_5_5645.html"]a little photo essay on Frosty's Claustrophobic Bivi on Excalibur.[/url]
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Double D
climber
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Jan 30, 2009 - 10:40pm PT
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Way cool!
But what's up with the speedo's?
(-;
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Jan 30, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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x-o-lente!!! Great photos, just goes to show,
who cares about the small details! Just get them
posted! Looks like you had a blast, although I pefer
boxers! Freedom in the hills!!!!
Ciao,
Thor
P.S. That is a big cam, Pass the Pitons!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jan 30, 2009 - 10:56pm PT
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really, families surf here!
nice, well not, 'stuff', but cool pictures!
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jan 30, 2009 - 11:17pm PT
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Thanks for posting the great pics. The quality of the photos is so good, my connection keeps crashing trying to keep up with them.
Excalibur is a great, unheralded line on El Cap. Except for the loose choss in the Slack chimney at the start of the route, the rock is stellar, and the isolation from other routes keeps it from seeming like just another freeway in a crowded lithopolis.
Another bonus is seeing each photo and reliving that portion of the route, sorta like a web-based time machine.
EDIT:
Here are my captions for Survival's TR up Excalibur. Basically, I've tried to be accurate in pinpointing the location of each photo, based on memory.
And, what a great trip back into the past I've just had.
Jugging from the base
Jugging the haul ropes, left of the Slack
Fixed ropes over the Slack roof
Belaying the traverse pitch from the top of the Slack
Rivet ladder, about P5-P6
Union Climbers hauling the Fake Blast fixed ropes to Heart Ledge
P6, a Charlie Porter kb/rurp masterpiece
not sure; the pitch above Guenivere's Bed bivy ledge?
unknown, but high on the route; say, within three pitches of the Round Table bivy.
P4, moving left out from under the Slack roof.
P4, moving left, out from under the Slack roof.
The P4-P5 rivet ladder?
Start of P7, with the Holy Grail within sight/reach
About halfway up, possibly Lancelot's Slot.
amnesia
Glass Slab, P25, only one more to the summit.
P9, a clean, no smears, overhanging 5.12 OW that is also challenging at C1
amnesia
Excalibur tops out at the Salathe Tree, but comes in on an orthogonal line
Horsetail Falls bathing facility (same as Camp 4: no hot water)
unknown/amnesia
Higher up on P24, waking up, out of Frosty's Bivy
unknown/amnesia
East Ledges Descent, just after the scary slab traverse at the Wild Dikes
unknown, some tree with a rope tied to it
unknown
Rope leading to the Round Table bivy (oooh, what a nice spot that was!)
Looking down from the Round Table
unknown
P26, the pitch to the summit
On the summit, west of the Salathe Tree
Jugging to Frosty's Bivy
P10, entering the maw of the monster
P7, the monster has not yet reared its beautiful, wide self
unknown
Slack chimney?
P24, coming out of Frosty's Bivy
P24, some really, really, good rock here, by the way
summit
Guenivere's Bed ledge
Apology Edit: I don't think anybody but me is going to look at the captions, and then compare them to the photos. There is some sort of web-tech that can do this, but, I'm not the guy to do it.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Jan 30, 2009 - 11:28pm PT
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Schaaaaweeet!
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 30, 2009 - 11:35pm PT
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Good job survival, Excalibur is a beaut.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2009 - 11:39pm PT
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Thanks Werner.
PTPP, we only had three "big" pieces. You can see me "jugging" one of the wide pitches, and basically taking a 3 piece anchor up the whole pitch with no pro!
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 31, 2009 - 12:01am PT
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Hey, Thor, Tom makes those mighty cams.....
He can be your CamSmith.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2009 - 12:02am PT
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One more bunch for the party.
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SammyLee2
Trad climber
Memphis, TN
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Jan 31, 2009 - 12:21am PT
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Super nice! I love the randomness of it all. You never know what's below. Kinda like life, I guess. ;)
Time and age are running out on me. Maybe I can get a wall in before it's too late.
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