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Lost Arrow Spire


Yosemite Valley, California USA


Trip Report
Whitemeat X Darkmeat Go to the Valley! +VIDEO
Sunday November 30, 2014 4:17pm
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Whitemeat and me got the entire week off of school for Thanksgiving week so we decided to spend our time going to sendtown in the valley!!! But before I got on the plane to leave Colorado I had to get a few laps in on Werk Supp and Touch n' Go in Eldo. Thankfully I didn't miss my flight! And in case you were wondering, this is the brother of the whitemeat posting:)

We got to the valley on Sunday around 2 pm and decided to check out the Lower Yosemite Falls Ampitheatre. We found four or five good climbs here and it was well worth it.

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warmed up on Ranger Crack
warmed up on Ranger Crack
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Day 2: East Butt

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meats
meats
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Day 3: we cragged around the sw side of el cap followed by a bit of bouldering in the afternoon

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Moby Dick was great
Moby Dick was great
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we tried tr-ing up Ahab. It didn't go so well
we tried tr-ing up Ahab. It didn't go so well
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Sacherer Cracker was stellar even in the hot sun
Sacherer Cracker was stellar even in the hot sun
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chicken meat lowering off
chicken meat lowering off
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chicken meat crushing some V3! Had to tape up for this one..
chicken meat crushing some V3! Had to tape up for this one..
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Me doing a sweet traverse
Me doing a sweet traverse
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Day 4: Whitemeat and I rope gunned up Goodrich Pinnacle with mom and dad. This climb was AWESOME!

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crux pitch!!
crux pitch!!
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Amy sending the chimney pitch
Amy sending the chimney pitch
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the whole gang atop the pinnacle
the whole gang atop the pinnacle
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Back on the ground safely. We couldn't have asked for better weather!
Back on the ground safely. We couldn't have asked for better weather!
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Day 5: Turkey Day. Whitemeat sent Midterm in the morning. Then we did some laps on Presidential followed by a search for Deliverance/Cedar Crack. Then it was back to Wawona for turkey dinner with the entire family! It was good.

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he in there
he in there
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Presidential boulder
Presidential boulder
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Day 6: Lost Arrow Spire time. We left Wawona at 4:30 am (way too early) and hiked up to the top of the falls. Great fun on this climb. The parents even met us at the top to see us do the tyrolean traverse and to help carry a rope down on the decent. Here is a video of the day courtesy of the whitemeat!

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I'm currently headed back to Colorado for finals but we have plans for xmas break. Keep sending monkeys!

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darkmeat
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darkmeat is a trad climber from Fort Collins, CO.

Comments
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
  Nov 30, 2014 - 04:36pm PT
Nice meats! We gotta get White out to Coloradbro . . .
Black Canyon downrising.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
  Nov 30, 2014 - 05:31pm PT
Absolute awesomeness. MeatFest.

Susan
briham89

Big Wall climber
santa cruz, ca
  Nov 30, 2014 - 06:01pm PT
Killer!
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
  Nov 30, 2014 - 06:16pm PT
yea mickey!

and the new meat on the market
whom i've yet to know.

kaholatingtong

Trad climber
The fake McCoy from nevernever land.
  Nov 30, 2014 - 07:16pm PT
Team and family meat for the win!
Dapper Dan

Trad climber
Redwood City
  Nov 30, 2014 - 07:30pm PT
wow , with mom and dad too ?

that's awesome ...
johntp

Trad climber
Punter, Little Rock
  Nov 30, 2014 - 09:36pm PT
Damn little twerps. Get a job and suffer like the rest of us.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
  Nov 30, 2014 - 09:51pm PT
Taking a Midterm in the middle of Thanksgiving break?

Ironic, isn't it, but many of us have done so, just maybe not with our sibs.

Great report and perfectly timed for this holiday. Thanks.
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
  Nov 30, 2014 - 10:41pm PT
Send on brosefs! Nice report.
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
  Dec 1, 2014 - 06:54am PT
This is what it's all about.

Thankyou and cheers for the meat!
Roxy

Trad climber
CA Central Coast
  Dec 1, 2014 - 07:03am PT
awesome trip reportage!!!

Lots to be thankful for!
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Republic, WA
  Dec 1, 2014 - 09:16am PT
You are what you eat and I bet it is not a carrot.

The Meat brothers!
Jingy

climber
Random Nobody
  Dec 1, 2014 - 10:25am PT
For tyhose whoi can no longer visit and climb as we used to...


I thank you for taking the camera and telling the story...

Pretty awesome photo-story sandwich
NutAgain!

Trad climber
https://nutagain.org
  Dec 1, 2014 - 10:32am PT
Excellent sendage in a short amount of time! That's almost an average year's worth of ticking for me when I lived 4 hours away.
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
  Dec 1, 2014 - 10:39am PT
A family that climbs together, way cool.

TFPU
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
  Dec 1, 2014 - 10:45am PT
Way to go, you guys. What a perfect way to spend Thanksgiving week - and you even let your folks in on the fun. Thank you for a wonderful TR and video.

John
Nkane

Trad climber
San Francisco, USA
  Dec 1, 2014 - 11:04am PT
You two should spend some time at the Creek - at the MEAT WALLS!
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
  Dec 1, 2014 - 11:44am PT
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Ed H

Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
  Dec 1, 2014 - 11:44am PT
Nice works guys!

Tearing up the 5 star classics!
guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
  Dec 1, 2014 - 01:03pm PT
Bummer if youze guys ever become vegetarians...............
couchmaster

climber
  Dec 1, 2014 - 04:24pm PT


Super TR Mickey, great to see you pressing the elderly meats into service as well. Looks like you must have gotten the best weather you could have imagined too.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
  Dec 1, 2014 - 09:23pm PT
Nice, your parents are rad. Nice they have the Ching to help you guys follow your dreams.
Ezra Ellis

Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
  Dec 2, 2014 - 05:25pm PT
Nice!
Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
  Dec 4, 2014 - 01:20pm PT
Meats! Good job!
phylp

Trad climber
Upland, CA
  Dec 4, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
So glad you had good weather!
sean warren

Big Wall climber
Great Britain
  Jun 28, 2015 - 02:15am PT
You found Desmond deckout!!!!
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