Ascents in Yosemite National Park having Beta

Rope was getting in the way

Sick OW to #6 - definitely not X let alone R rated, not sure why it says that here?

Fuck wideboyz crack gloves, would be better off using banana peels strapped onto the back of your hands with duck tape

I must've started too high or this is truly a one move 12a that I bypassed the Crux of? Definitely on the right line according to MP but felt way too easy for 12a

Post swim arvo lap

Did a bunch of v0s and a 2 that aren't on thecrag so I'm ticking this v1 to make myself feel good

All jugs

Most sandbagged V2 in the valley?

Epic day out in an absurd position with Yosemite falls putting on a show with peak flow of the year after all the snow melt.

Ethan and I brainstormed this one the night before and decided it sounded like a good idea - no real beta to go off we just took everything and went. 3500ft of elevation with a big pack was a slog, had a lot of tourists in awe of whatever we were doing.

Crazy amount of fixed ropes at the top (6) definitely needs a garbage disposal job. Fixed the 80m rope - which was clutch, a 70m would've required coming off rappel onto some extremely suspect traversing. Mixture of free and aid on the first pitch - 3 x #4s were again a good call. Second pitch was the technical aid, which is absolutely eased of all hooks by God's greatest gift in Yosemite - a rack of totems. Trusting a half engaged totem took a hot second, but it's bomb as the package says. Also turns out carrot bolts (rivets) back in Australia aren't so special, they exist here too - but they don't take plates, just nuts or actual rivet hangers which of course we didn't have. Sick position on the pitch then a bolt ladder to finish.

Got to the top, figured neither of us have ever rigged a tyrolean before but it was pretty easy to figure out. The rope access course I did before coming here actually paid off here in making it easier. Jugging the tyrolean was the hardest part of the day. Everything went perfectly??? We were both shocked.

Yosemite animal bingo was on fire on the walk off. Saw a Marmot, peregrine, brown bear and cub, California king snake, Alex Honnold on his bike at camp 4.

A great last route of the trip. I'll be back

Fun route finishing with a splitter hands crack. The soloists coming down half way through the climb made things fun

Glad to have ticked this. Thanks Blair for the recommendation

Was not prepared for this as the warm up climb. Tried very hard at the bottom

Thin crimp line to a technical top. Who knew Yosemite had great sport lines

Great intro route to the valley beside the traffic jam and Sascha dropping my 0.3

The least sent boulder of the day. Actually did alright on this one - finger crack antics

Not a boulderer

Highballs are scary

Does it count as a clean send if you undergrip on mega jugs on a 5.8 then fall 2m onto a ledge standing and your belayer doesn't even notice?

Sick Yosemite intro - p6 was the scariest thing I've ever led, 2 pitons and one worthwhile cam placement over 30m of traversing while still not totally trusting the granite smears - the handholds were the equivalent of pulling on a stale arnotts lemon crisp at points.

Felt like I went through a footwork class over 10 pitches and it finally started to click by the end. Shit's rough in the valley.

Linked 1/2, 3/4, 7-8.5 then ran out of rope.

Lots of dirt and choss lower down leads to 3 or 4 beautiful pitches of climbing. Then the rock quality turns to shit as you approach the summit. Skip the last 2 pitches and take the easy escape instead.

Ran out of gear on 4th pitch. So built an anchor and did 5th as one mega runnout

Snow covering the first 3m. Started on top of the snow bank

First pitch corner was wet so we used the link up from Easy Wind, 3rd pitch was soaked, we rapped from there.

Aid the first 3 bolts on wet slab to the crack.

A lot of steep walking for an ok route, nice view from the top chill day, worth it if doing other routes in the area, can also watch the pros projecting Dawn Wall from the ledge

Mega route, sketchy start, committing laybacks on granite slabs (no feet) then beginning 3rd route with a roof traverse crux again no feet, took me a few minutes to commit to the final moves although on good pro was a bit comforting, finished up the right side (not the easier left) and was worth the few moves to the topout.

Fell off the bottom once. Bailed off the top once because it’s real scary up there. Then did it.

Pretty fun pitch with amazing views!

Just another route to add to the list of things that might make you a believer. I had the pleasure of jugging/climbing/shenaniganing behind Sam on his glorious 22 hour all free ascent of El Corazon (the El Coraziad).

Brittany, Victoria, and I jugged to Mammoth the night before to try and maximise our sleep then the next morning Adrian and Sam simuled to Mammoth and collected their pre-rigged belayers (Brittany and I (Victoria just came to hang out and talk shit bc she’s a legend)) and Sam and I started romping while Adrian and Brittany chilled on the ledge to give us some time to create a gap so Adrian could start his attempt without us being in the way. Pretty classic scenes on the big stone if you ask me.

Highlights included: - Listening to multiple Lorde albums in full - Jugging the Nietzsche chimney and being rewarded with a lie down on Babsi’s portaledge - Taking a whole bunch of fucked up pendulums cleaning Sam’s gear to save time (“should i lower out or just take the fall?” “nah you’ll be fine there’s nothing to hit just take the whip”) - Sam firing every pitch like an absolute machine with only one fall on the Beak Flake - Jugging with two back packs - Down aiding the end of the roof pitch because Sam forgot to back clean his gear and i couldn’t lower out and also did not want to take the 15mpendulum whipper into the Tower - Having a chorus of 10 or so people from different routes cheer Sam on as he sent the roof traverse as the sun finished setting - Arriving at the tower and being handed a cup of tea that had been made by Miska and her partner who sent Golden Gate - Honestly just the whole thing. Supporting your friends to achieve their dreams is the fucking coolest thing ever.

I won’t forget this day for a long while. Thanks Sam.

Amazing day I had the route and the waterfall to myself

Fixed last year’s dab.

Interesting line. Starts as a full on chimney, then climb on knobs on the side walls, then a normal crack near the top. Gear is consistently good.

Different than anything else I’ve done in Yosemite. Amazing line but I don’t think the plates at the top are going to be there forever. Note there are now mussy hooks at the anchor (Oct/23).

Stellar finger locks, super polished feet.