Muir Wall A2 5.9

Currently 4.0/5

El Capitan

Yosemite Valley, California USA

Trip Report

The Shaft / Muir free variation

Friday April 13, 2018 1:15pm


	Credit: loverock

This is in two parts (next part out shortly) - this is essentially a video trip report of some attempts to climb The Shaft on Muir. It is a sick route!

Questions/comments welcome.. if you want me to post part 2 here I will!

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loverock

About the Author
Nate Murphy is punter from the UK.

Comments

neebee

Social climber

calif/texas

Apr 13, 2018 - 02:28pm PT

hey there say, nate... yes! please do post part two...

i am just now going to see this...

thanks for sharing... :)

eliot carlsen

Social climber

Seattle

Apr 14, 2018 - 01:31pm PT

Really good, thanks for that!

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Apr 14, 2018 - 08:04pm PT

Hi, I'm Nate Murphy ... and I'm kind of like a pretty mediocre climber who's just been trying to step things up a little bit … In the spring, I came to Yosemite and I achieved like a long-term goal of free climbing the westy face of Leaning Tower.

..............................

Right there, this is what we used to call a Sandbag.

No worries, the whole thing is brilliant!
You the man, Nate!

micronut

Trad climber

Fresno/Clovis, ca

Apr 14, 2018 - 10:57pm PT

Beautiful video and congrats on a great send.

However, saying "I'm just a mediocre climber" and then climbing.13c trad on the big stone is what we call a humble brag. Easy to see through. I'm like " yeah whatever dude" right off the bat. But I really liked it and enjoy your stoke! Proud send and thanks for sharing.

You don't have to pretend to be humble by saying you are mediocre. I would call mediocre 5.8-5.9. If you say you are mediocre and climb 13c then everybody else is pretty much just piss poor. Climbing at that level is rad. You should be proud of it!

Keep sending them posting up!

Scott

loverock

Trad climber

london

Author's Reply

Apr 15, 2018 - 07:20am PT

micronut - ha, I really am; I see the really strong and talented climbers all the time and it isn't me.. I have to just project the sh#t out of anything hard.

That said, in my experience hard climbing always tends to start about two letter grades above whatever you are climbing.

(P.s. I didn't send - but they will release that next week)

micronut

Trad climber

Fresno/Clovis, ca

Apr 15, 2018 - 11:27am PT

Nate,

Yeah I hear you. If you hang out with a bunch of 14d/15a shredders then I guess you're not gonna feel like what you are doing is all that special. It's all relative I guess to the posse you hang out with. I'm a really big deal around the people I climb with because I choose to surround myself with below average gym climbers who don't climb outside much. Nice video work on the proj again...... I know that filming and editing takes a great deal of effort and time. Looking forward to part two!