Trip Report
not-honnold climbed El Cap (video TR)
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Monday June 12, 2017 9:49am
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[ Click to View YouTube Video]
Haha well. I joined the conga line and climbed the nose over memorial day weekend. Actually wasn't that crowded aside from several NIAD parties, but they flew past without incident. My first big wall, and I believe first successful big wall for my partner.
Lots of stories as well that I'd like to write down at some point, but I like making videos. Plus the video is a much more effective tool for explaining what I did to my non-climbing friends who asked "oh how was your hiking trip?"
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Racking up below Changing Corners
nathanael
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About the Author
nathanael is a poser from michigan, living in california |
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Jun 12, 2017 - 11:44am PT
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That was pretty fun. I liked the face-over on the King Swing. It would have been fun getting the contrails of the NIAD people going by too. I liked the relaxing music......whilst sitting in my armchair.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 12, 2017 - 12:00pm PT
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Now that's entertainment!
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nathanael
climber
CA
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Author's Reply
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Jun 12, 2017 - 12:01pm PT
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It was actually pretty fun seeing the NIAD parties, they were all laughs and good vibes and looked like they were having a blast. Pretty inspiring. Well aside from the team that crawled over us around midnight at Camp V. They looked like they were probably going to be stretching the limits of "in a day" and seemed somewhat miserable but still determined. NIAD is definitely a goal for the future but it reinforced my idea that I'd like to aim for more like 16 hours vs 26 hours.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Jun 12, 2017 - 12:14pm PT
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Climbing Badgers Don't Give a Fuk! They send!!!
TFPU! Great stuff.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jun 12, 2017 - 12:19pm PT
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Nice to see a video of normal climbers. All of the clips of superheroes these days makes one feel inadequate.
I have not been to Yosemite for a number of years now and am surprised to see the forests in such bad shape. Is it that grim all over?
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Jun 12, 2017 - 04:22pm PT
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Ditto AND ditto about the trees. Maybe it will keep raining for awhile. I can't believe Nathanael didn't take a fly for the ledge. Did you at least have Blue Cagoules? You could have ended up as a member of the Cult of the Blue Cojones instead.
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nathanael
climber
CA
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Author's Reply
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Jun 12, 2017 - 05:28pm PT
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LOL yea we were certainly advised against omitting the fly but didn't want to buy one and also didn't want to haul one. We had some decently beefy bivy sacks so I think we would survive, but sitting out 2+ days of rain in bivy sacks was sounding pretty bad. Very very thankful the forecast changed in our favor.
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fat-n-sassy
Social climber
San Francity, CA
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Jun 13, 2017 - 01:18pm PT
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Awesome! Thanks for posting and congrats on making the summit!
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Jeff Gorris
climber
Not from Portlandia
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Jun 13, 2017 - 09:17pm PT
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Nice work boys!!
Fookin sweet edit!!
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BrandonAdams
Big Wall climber
Yosemite, CA
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Jun 14, 2017 - 07:12am PT
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Congrats on the send!
What's the 3d mapping stuff from? Pretty cool.
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nathanael
climber
CA
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Author's Reply
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Jun 14, 2017 - 07:56am PT
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Thanks all!
The 3D imagery is from Google Earth, actually it's from their new in-browser version which is pretty slick. Just go to earth.google.com and you can do all that stuff without even downloading anything.
Really the downloaded app would have been superior since it has more extensive camera controls, like you can set several points and have it automatically pan the camera for a aerial "tour". But for some reason the app didn't have the full high resolution details on the wall itself, so I used the online version instead.
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JohnnyG
climber
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Jun 14, 2017 - 10:44am PT
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great stuff
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Jun 14, 2017 - 11:37am PT
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TFUP
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Rexi
climber
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Jun 14, 2017 - 03:01pm PT
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awesome and well done! hope do to that climb one day :)
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Jun 17, 2017 - 08:46am PT
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Love it! The video is great!!! Thanks for taking the time to post up!
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
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Jun 17, 2017 - 09:39am PT
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Love it!!!!
Susan
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Jane Gallwey
Big Wall climber
Waterford, Ireland
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Jun 20, 2017 - 06:21am PT
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Great video, was really fun to watch :-)
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E.A.
Trad climber
Gunks
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Jun 25, 2017 - 07:37am PT
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Absolutely awesome video!
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Spanky
Social climber
boulder co
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Jun 25, 2017 - 10:04am PT
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Awesome job on the send! I liked the video. For what its worth though, those bivy sacks would have been pretty useless in a storm. You won't believe it until you're caught up there but once you've been in a storm up there you won't leave the fly behind.
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