Munginella 5.6

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Yosemite Valley, California USA

Trip Report

Munginella (5.6) and Regular Route (5.4) with Danger, Kirby, and Max

by Oblivion

Monday August 29, 2011 2:56pm

http://www.interestingfuture.com/2011/08/yosemite-rock-climbing-munginella/

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Oblivion

About the Author
Max is a Mechanical Engineering student at Purdue University who one day dreams of being a dirt-bag climbing bum.

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O.D.

Trad climber

LA LA Land

Aug 29, 2011 - 03:13pm PT

This is what it's all about -- making your own adventure, and what better place than Yosemite? It's totally worth the long drive you guys made because Yosemite is magical. By the way, most of us learned to climb On-The-Job, so to speak, and if you're normally a level-headed person with good judgement you'll enjoy safe and exciting adventures for many years to come.

NMR

Trad climber

Berkeley

Aug 29, 2011 - 03:34pm PT

Yeah you got off route on the Sunnyside Bench Regular Route, should have gone right when you got to that ledge where you took the pic of the double rappel. Way to get out there though, stay safe and have fun!

squishy

Mountain climber

Aug 29, 2011 - 03:34pm PT

Getting after it dude, good job. You'll be back soon.

kev

climber

A pile of dirt.

Aug 29, 2011 - 03:49pm PT

Either the route has become overgrown since 2003 when our guidebook was written or we got horribly lost.

Hahaha - you were a little off route ;)

rlf

Trad climber

Josh, CA

Aug 29, 2011 - 06:27pm PT

Good for you guys! Sounds like you had fun.

Oblivion

Trad climber

Traveling

Author's Reply

Aug 29, 2011 - 09:40pm PT

Yeah you got off route on the Sunnyside Bench Regular Route, should have gone right when you got to that ledge where you took the pic of the double rappel.

I think that's the ledge we decided was "the ledge" but it was getting dark and we decided not to push it. Which turned out to be a good thing because the rope got snagged near the top and we ended up walking back in the dark.

Ezra Ellis

Trad climber

WA, & NC & Idaho

Aug 30, 2011 - 07:22pm PT

Nice job y'all, TFPU!!!!

Jingy

climber

Somewhere out there

Aug 30, 2011 - 08:04pm PT

sounds to me like kirby needs to find a couple of climbers to hang out with instead of "hanging out" with the couple of these climbers.

cheers to all who survived

Not to mention.... What gear is really needed for Munge?..

I mean.. I've tried rope soloing that thing.. but half way through the pain I decided to sack up and solo out...

ß Î Ø T Ç H

climber

Aug 30, 2011 - 08:29pm PT

We left her tied to a tree for at least 2 hours and did not complain once. I highly recommend Kirby.

Who's the lucky guy?

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Aug 30, 2011 - 09:45pm PT

I see the spirit of your post!

You realized you are "turkeys!"

Back in the 1970's, friends and I did 3 long trips to Yosemite.

Each trip: after a few days-----we realized we were turkeys.

After that: we could enjoy the climbing.

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