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Adamame
climber
Santa Cruz
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Back in 96 I rolled into The Valley with Sharma and his Dad. Ron met us at Camp 4 and showed us around the place. Chris had a hair-raising ascent of Thriller with only one of those old BD spot pads at the base. We walked to Nutcraker and then climbed that with a couple cams and a set of nuts, for my first climb in Yosemite. Then the next day we toproped Midnight Lighting and failed in a quite miserable way.
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Lena's Lieback 5.9 - super slippery.
I think...? Wasn't momentous.
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murcy
climber
sanfrancisco
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C.S. Concerto with my kid, guided by some zen bandit.
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xtrmecat
Big Wall climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Grant's Crack on a soloist. I was trolling for a partner for something a wee bit bigger. Worked too.
Burly Bob
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doughnutnational
Gym climber
its nice here in the spring
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Caverns in spring of 1974 with Garry Zaccor. 5.7 A1
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Right Side of Monday Morning Slab, June of 1969. We were so intimidated by the Valley aura that this took us several hours to climb. There was still a small snowpatch at the base.
John
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Snake Dike, awesome day! I was pretty tired afterwards, which contributed to me taking my first leader fall on Nutcracker the next day. I fell at the bulge with the crack through it. Didn't know how to jamb. Lead the mantle no prob. There are mantles at IR in Berkeley.
A good weekend all around.
Z
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Gooney
Trad climber
Longmont, CO
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Made the long trip from Boulder in 1978 with this tick list in mind:
Nutcracker
La Cosita, right side
Coonyard Pinnacle
East Buttress, Middle Cathedral
Got them all, hexes and stoppers only. Best part was the international scene in Camp 4.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Chouinard-Herbert on Sentinel (big wall style).
In Friday night, climbed Saturday, topped out Sunday just before dark. Onsighted the descent via headlamp and drove back to the Bay Area that night. Got two hours sleep, flew back to Phx and went to work.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Royal Arches, even got the traverse lead and the Rotten Log was still there.
Peace
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gonzo chemist
climber
Crane Jackson's Fountain St. Theater
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After Six. Followed by After Seven. In full-on summer heat. We didn't learn our lesson. The next day we went and did Nutcracker. We were rejoicing that we were the only ones on the climb! But by the third pitch, when it was about 97 degrees, and no shade to be found, we understood why. Didn't bring any water to sip on, and a late night of heavy drinking didn't help matters. We were toast after we finished that climb.
Fond memories, for sure!
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Great photo, Brokendown.
After Six, then After Seven and Nutcracker, in 2005 with me wife - great day to revisit in the memory banks.
I remember feeling so nervous stepping into the first moves of After Six's first pitch, a regular tornado of butterflies whipping through me. Feels like yesterday.
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Sunnyside Bench, regular route. Second was Monday Morning Slab.
These were guided. I guess my first rappel was Monday Morning.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Sunny Side Bench reg. route and MM slab west side with Bruce Price in 1969. First climbing experience ever... seemed overwhelming. Don't know if Bruce is still around. He was a remarkable guy just slightly crazy. Sometimes a single experience can just turn your life around; I'm still thankful for that day.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Bishops Terrace in the early '70's. I think we used all hexes.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Onsighted the descent via headlamp and drove back to the Bay Area that night.
That's pretty impressive, steelmnkey. Doing a wall for your first Valley climb is, too, but I thrashed around in daylight the first time I got down from Sentinel. I can't imagine trying to do it by headlamp, particularly finding those third class slabs to the east of the creek.
John
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Nice thread nutjob.
1975; Pitch 1 of After 6 with Bill Frey. Seemed way slippery and hard for 5.6. Then we did Jump for Joy on the buttress next to it protected with little tiny stoppers after you climb left out of the bathtub-like thing. Then After 7 to the top of Manure pile. Coming from North Carolina climbing, it seemed incredible to be able to climb six pitches on what seemed like an insignificant little cliff given all the magnificent walls everywhere you looked.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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not in
the valley
but aqua knobby
was my first flavor
of yosemite
climbing.
eye opener.
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Would have been some Apron climbs. Must have been something easier than the two I remember: Shuttle Madness (I took 2 leader falls and emerged about a pound lighter due to the road rash) and Son of Sam. Probably about 1982 or so.
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