Trip Report
Royal Arches to South Face to Tuolumne
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Tuesday September 6, 2011 12:05pm
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Recently climbed South Face via Royal Arches and then hiked off the backside to highway 120.
For all of you who love statistics, I wont make you wait for them:
4000′ of elevation gain
26 pitches climbed
16 miles of hitchhiking
13 hours of almost non-stop work
8 literes of water per person
6.3 miles of hiking
2 routes completed
1 more of the 50 classics ticked
Shared the full story of how we put it together on my blog:
Royal Arches to North Dome to Tuolumne
surfnclimb
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About the Author
surfnclimb is a trad climber from San Mateo. |
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Like the way you think!
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BrianH
Trad climber
santa fe
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Awesome!
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Nohea
Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
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Thats an enjoyable read, sounded like a fun day out.
And Big Ups for sharing.
Aloha,
will
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Chateau Rico
Sport climber
Davis, CA
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That was a GREAT trip report!! And great job on the link-up!
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cms
Trad climber
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Nice work boys!
Creative and fun as hell. Jealous I couldn't be on it with ya but ill take the team send for PGB :)
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Classroom to crag to summer camp
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Ha! We were the party of three on the 5.7 pitch of Royal Arches. Now I know why we heard you guys yelling up on the traversing ledge.
My favorite quote I overheard as you guys were passing us, "I hope you're good because I don't have you on anything that even resembles a belay"
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neverwas
Mountain climber
ak
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Great story. I and a partner bailed from North Dome 35 or so years ago after climbing out of the left-facing dihedral and getting lost on the slabs beyond. My partner couldn't reach a stance and wanted me to leave the belay and climb after him... I guess that's what simul-climbing is, but I wasn't up for it and made him downclimb to me. He was a tad emotional, yelling 'you killing me!', but I was not getting us both out on that slab with maybe 1 piece in... Then he insisted we rap off some mank, so I let him go first then left a fresh sling.
Finally reached the top of North Dome just a couple days before your trip but using your 'descent' trail both ways. Great views and a nice way to at least see the valley far from the madding crowds. Still have the South Face route on my todo list, and the combo with Royal Arches is the way to do it. I'll miss the rotten (and terrifying) log, though.
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surfnclimb
Trad climber
San Mateo
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Author's Reply
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Sep 6, 2011 - 10:39pm PT
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@j-tree That's too funny! We really enjoyed the variation that we found to the left of the fingers. A touch spicy off the ledge due to no pro, but all in all pretty mellow. Just cracks me up that you overheard our simul-climbing communication and managed to find the trip report as well.
I truly was excited to free the traverse section of the route so it's not surprising that you guys heard me. Hopefully the sounds of joy were conveyed over the distance and not interpreted as sounds of an epic being born.
Too funny to run into each other on here. Hope you three enjoyed the route, seemed like you were making pretty good time.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Soon 2B Arizona
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good job
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Classroom to crag to summer camp
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We had a great time with one of us coming over from England with the intent to climb the route and the other on her first trip to Yosemite.
A bit hot that day though, your water intake statistic does not surprise me in the least. We changed almost every belay we could to stay in the shade.
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The South Face stays in the corner Photo: Chris McNamara
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