South Face C1 5.8

Currently 4.0/5

Washington Column

Yosemite Valley, California USA

Trip Report

South Face of Washington Column Rope Solo June 2012

Monday June 11, 2012 11:57pm

Below is a blog entry of my South Face of Washington Column Rope Solo on June 9th-11th-2012:


	Credit: JSpencerV

http://jspencerv.blogspot.com/2012/06/south-face-washington-column-rope-solo.html

Special thanks to Joven Borro: Thanks for encouraging me to keep driving to Yosemite in 8.5 hours of frustrating traffic. If I had driven alone, I would have turned around.

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JSpencerV

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JSpencerV is a trad climber from Santa Monica, CA.

Comments

Fish_Products

Big Wall climber

FishProducts.com

Jun 12, 2012 - 01:47am PT

Good stuff! Thanks!

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le_bruce

climber

Oakland, CA

Jun 12, 2012 - 02:49pm PT

Sweet! How did that rope bag work for ya?

Jingy

climber

Random Nobody

Jun 12, 2012 - 02:58pm PT

That is really awesome stuff...

Thanks for the post.

Just an FYI - some of the vids are not available

Gunkie

Trad climber

Valles Marineris

Jun 12, 2012 - 04:21pm PT

-People usually think you have no friends if you solo aid – or for someone reason nobody wants to climb with you.

I readily admit to having no friends and know that no one wants to climb with me.

JEleazarian

Trad climber

Fresno CA

Jun 12, 2012 - 04:35pm PT

Nice work. I've thought about soloing the South Face, but the thought of some of those reaches deters me. The last time I climbed it (in the 1970's), there was so much tat hanging from the top of the Kor Roof and from the bolt above the small roof above it that even at 5' 5", I had no trouble making the moves. Not sure what it would be like now. You're motivating me to reconsider.

Thanks for that excellent TR.

John

labrat

Trad climber

Erik O. Auburn, CA

Jun 12, 2012 - 05:34pm PT

Nice!

JaredVagy

Trad climber

Santa Monica, CA

Jun 13, 2012 - 02:05pm PT

Thanks for the positive feedback. I will check the links later this week for the videos. I just realized there were a lot of typos - I must not have spell checked - by bad. It was such a good time (in retrospect). I am glad you people are getting a little bit out of reading it! As the rope bag goes - I used a Bed Bath and Beyond bag, doubled it up and ran a coat wire through the rim and taped it down. Total cost was $5. It worked really well. JEleazarian - you should go for it - the really reachy move on the Kor roof is slung with a long piece of tat so not too hard to grab.

JSpencerV

Trad climber

Santa Monica, CA

Author's Reply

Jun 14, 2012 - 01:43am PT

I just re-posted the videos. They should work.

Dirka

Trad climber

Hustle City

Jun 14, 2012 - 11:08am PT

Great Job

viejoalpinisto

Social climber

Pahrump, NV

Jun 14, 2012 - 11:47am PT

Thanks

ydpl8s

Trad climber

Santa Monica, California

Jun 14, 2012 - 12:01pm PT

Yes Jared! Way to suffer through it, I'm enjoying watching you progress your way through each new climb.

I have to admit that I felt a lot more weak and tired after watching that.........:-)

Your former patient, Scott