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Dom 9 Giu 2024 - Lake Tahoe, California Side | |||||||
Truckee - Donner Donner Summit Snowshed Wall East Face | |||||||
5.8 |
★★ Mole's Corner
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Mer 5 Giu 2024 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley North Lower Merced Canyon Five and Dime Cliff | |||||||
5.10a X |
★ Copper Penny
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Ven 31 Mag 2024 - Lake Tahoe, California Side | |||||||
Lover's Leap Main Wall | |||||||
5.7 |
★★★ Corrugation Corner
![]() | 140m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Absolutely phenomenal line, up there with the Spartan for the best 5.7 in existence. Except this is 3 pitches of equal quality climbing. Sick corner and roof on p1, absurd runout arete face climbing exposure on p2, a chimney that you wish went forever into a pretty scary traverse on a single bent up piton into 40m of jug hauling on p3. P3 traverse absolutely scarier on second with the lack of pro but J powered through after hauling the pack through the chimney - smiles the whole way up the jug haul.
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Ven 31 Mag 2024 - Lake Tahoe, California Side | |||||||
Lover's Leap Lower Buttress | |||||||
5.7 R |
★★ Surrealistic Pillar
![]() | 91m | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
I absolutely butchered the route finding on p2 when trying to link pitches, rope drag defeated me on the solable terrain just shy of the summit - linkup with corro corner
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Gio 30 Mag 2024 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Washington Column South Face | |||||||
5.8 C1 V |
★★★ South Face
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Gio 23 Mag 2024 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley North Lower Merced Canyon Five and Dime Cliff | |||||||
5.8 |
★★ Keystone Corner
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Rope was getting in the way
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Sab 18 Mag 2024 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Yosemite Falls Upper Yosemite Falls | |||||||
5.12b |
★★★ Lost Arrow Spire Tip
![]() | 76m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
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. |
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Sab 11 Mag 2024 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Middle Cathedral Rock East Buttress | |||||||
5.10c |
★★★ East Buttress
![]() | 360m, 9 | |||||
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. |
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Mer 1 Mag 2024 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Washington Column South Face | |||||||
5.8 C1 V |
★★★ South Face
![]() | 370m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Mar 30 Apr 2024 - The Pinnacles | |||||||
Machete Ridge Area | |||||||
5.3 |
★★ Old Original
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6
| 300m | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
Ven 26 Apr 2024 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Three Brothers Eagle Creek Area Manure Pile Buttress | |||||||
5.7 |
★★ After Six
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| 180m | Media | ||||
Sab 13 Gen 2024 - Texas Canyon | |||||||
The Egg | |||||||
5.11c |
Cereal Killer
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Lun 13 Nov 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face | |||||||
5.13b |
★★★ El Corazón
![]() | 1000m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
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. |
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Sab 28 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Cathedral Peak | |||||||
5.6 III Dura |
★★★ Southeast Buttress
![]() | 220m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Gio 26 Ott 2023 - Owens River Gorge | |||||||
Central Gorge Pub Area (High Tension West) | |||||||
5.9 |
★★ Abitoffun
![]() | ★★★ Classica | |||||
Gio 26 Ott 2023 - Owens River Gorge | |||||||
Central Gorge Social Platform | |||||||
5.10c Dura |
★★ Orange Peel
![]() | 30m | ★ Buona | ||||
Mer 25 Ott 2023 - Malibu Creek State Park | |||||||
Mount Gorgeous | |||||||
5.10b |
★ GORGEOUS
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Dom 22 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Cathedral Peak | |||||||
5.6 III |
★★★ Southeast Buttress
![]() | 220m | |||||
Some hiking
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Sab 21 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Three Brothers Eagle Creek Area Manure Pile Buttress | |||||||
5.8 |
★★★ The Nutcracker Suite
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5
| 180m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Ven 20 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Middle Cathedral Rock Northeast Face | |||||||
5.9 |
★★★ Central Pillar of Frenzy
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5
| 170m | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
Gio 19 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Base Area | |||||||
5.10a |
★★★ Moby Dick, Center
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145ft
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45ft
| 58m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Mar 17 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southeast Face | |||||||
5.10b |
★★★ East Buttress
![]() | 440m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
For the descent take care, it might not be easy to locate it especially in the dark.
After topping out you follow a trail and a bunch of cairns down. Then you continue walking down on some slabs The rap station is as you walk down facing the valley to the right hand side (Skier's-right) A chain on a ledge with usually some fixed ropes, We did 6 raps (the last 2 were short) Do NOT go left! Do NOT rap from the tat and old rings that are on a very dead looking tree. After the raps follow a long but obvious trail through the trees and back on the road |
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Sab 14 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Three Brothers Lower Brother Absolutely Free Area | |||||||
5.9 |
★★ Absolutely Free, Center Route
![]() | 190m | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
Ven 13 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Base Area | |||||||
5.10a |
★★★ Moby Dick, Center
![]() | 58m | |||||
Ven 13 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley South Lower Merced Canyon Turtleback Dome The Rostrum North Face | |||||||
5.12b |
★★★ Alien
![]() | 240m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Unbelievable route. I fell off the Alien Roof pitch which is one of the coolest cracks I’ve climbed after a decent onsight effort that got me on to the face after the roof. I also had to take and lower on the offwidth pitch because I left my #5 behind like an idiot and then got too scared to run out the whole top half of the pitch. Otherwise did everything else. What an awesome collection of steep splitters.
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Ven 13 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Higher Cathedral Rock | |||||||
5.10b |
★ Book of Job
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the most in over my head i've been. had (mostly) mentally prepared for the approach, adventurous/old-school style, steepness, offwidth, but not the squeeze chimneys, nor the exposed bottomless #5/#6 crux. led about the first half of p3; was a terrified gumby; Owen was a total champ.
back at cars 2:45am. brought and placed both #5s; a #6 may have been useful if not completely necessary, but neither of us have one anymore for the exact same reason :p |
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Ven 13 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Middle Cathedral Rock East Buttress | |||||||
5.10c |
★★★ East Buttress
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5.6
120ft
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5.8
40ft
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5.8
100ft
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5.7
100ft
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5.10c
100ft
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5.8
100ft
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5.7
120ft
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5.8
130ft
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5.7
100ft
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5.8
140ft
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5.7
120ft
| 360m, 9 | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
Very good Route!
Heaps of chossy rock to look out for though Made me feal a bit that I was climbing in the mountains... We linked 3-4 easy And 7-8 in a mega 70m long pitch I would suggest not linking 1 with 2 The start of 2 can be a bit commiting, Nicer to have the belayer next to you, to stop you for decking We aided the bolted pitch Could have been fun to try climb it, but not fun if we wasted that time and got caught out in the dark for the last couple of pitches Especially when you need to do 12Raps to get out Rumor has it to better Rap that do the walk off.. |
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Mer 11 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Leaning Tower FiFi Buttress, West Face | |||||||
5.12c |
★★★ Romulan Warbird
![]() | ★★★ Classica | |||||
First proper day in the Valley and we get sandbagged on to this by Adrian. First pitch was a rough warm up and I got pretty scared. I took an exciting fall on to an abysmal flared cam that some how held and that set the tone for the pitch. Pretty amazing though. The rest of the climbing was also hard and rad and scary. We bailed from the base of the crux as Adrian and Vic were back on the ground and we were ready to come down. Worthy.
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Dom 8 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Leaning Tower FiFi Buttress, West Face | |||||||
5.11a Dura |
★★ Center Of The Universe
![]() | 300m | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
Learning the hard way how to crack climb! Ooof
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Ven 6 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face | |||||||
5.9 C2 VI |
★★★ The Nose
![]() | 1000m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Mer 4 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Cathedral Peak | |||||||
5.6 III |
Ecopoint
★★★ Southeast Buttress
![]() | 220m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Happy to have had the route to ourselves except one soloist. Everything I expected from Tuolumne - great protection, stunning views high in the alpine with a proper sense of adventure. Got a little bit confused at the top - probably better to stay right of the summit block? Start early and bring a headlamp (: One of the best days I’ve had in the mountains.
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Mar 3 Ott 2023 - Lake Tahoe, California Side | |||||||
Truckee - Donner Donner Summit Grouse Slab East Face | |||||||
5.10b |
★★★ Rocco's Demise
![]() | 6m, 1 | ★★★ Classica | ||||
fell during lead onsight attempt. Toprope send.
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Lun 2 Ott 2023 - Joshua Tree National Park | |||||||
Hidden Valley Campground Intersection Rock South-West Face | |||||||
5.8 ~5.9 |
★★ The Flake
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Due to time constraints, I chose to start up West Chimney, then stepped left into the flake proper. The slab moves at the top keeps your head in the game!
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Lun 2 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Washington Column South Face | |||||||
5.8 C1 V |
★★★ South Face
![]() | 370m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Day 1 we climbed to pitch 5 and fixed back to dinner ledge. Stoked to get the redpoint on pitch 2 this time. Day 2 we climbed to pitch 9 however bailed due to running out of daylight before the last pitch. Great adventure.
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Lun 2 Ott 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley North Lower Merced Canyon Pat and Jack Pinnacle Area | |||||||
5.10c |
★★ The Super Slacker Highway
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5.10c
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5.9
| 180m, 16 | ★★★ Classica | ||||
mega fun adventure, worth the crowds. tests your ability to climb everything: splitters, boulder sequences, steep jug haul, chimney (p5, p8), committing to balancy mantle above a first bolt/ledge (p4). pitch breakdown was arbitrary but worked out well: I somehow got the bouldery pitches (p3, p7) and not the reachy ones (p1, p6)
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Dom 24 Set 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Cathedral Peak | |||||||
5.6 III |
★★★ Southeast Buttress
![]() | 220m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Sab 23 Set 2023 - High Sierra | |||||||
Palisades Area Temple Crag | |||||||
5.10a IV |
★★★ Sun Ribbon Arête
![]() | 600m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Another classic day out in the alpine, I need to start wearing lipstuff as my lips are hella cooked today.
Fist two third of the route was mega classic but then it was hard to simul the last bits do to the stegasaurus nature of the climb. Maybe we need to simul with 20m instead of 35m
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Ven 22 Set 2023 - High Sierra | |||||||
Palisades Area Temple Crag | |||||||
5.8 IV |
★★ Moon Goddess Arête
![]() | 600m | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
Gio 21 Set 2023 - Lake Tahoe, California Side | |||||||
Indian Springs Upper Tier | |||||||
5.2 |
Super Doo
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Gio 21 Set 2023 - High Sierra | |||||||
Palisades Area Temple Crag | |||||||
5.8 IV |
★★ Moon Goddess Arête
![]() | 600m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Very good day out did it in 5 long pitches : ).
Spectacular views.
Weird non traditional snow and ice climbing techniques used.
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Mar 19 Set 2023 - High Sierra | |||||||
Mount Dana Area Dana Plateau | |||||||
5.10a III |
★★★ Third Pillar
![]() | 180m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
5.10a III |
★★★ Third Pillar
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Thought the hard pitches were easy and the easy pitches were hard. Definitely off route for pitch 2 (80m long) but very good climbing
7.15 hours car to car |
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Lun 18 Set 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Mt. Conness Area Mt. Conness | |||||||
5.6 III |
★★★ West Ridge
![]() | 600m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
A nice top rope of this classic adventure!
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5.6 III |
★★★ West Ridge
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Cheeky solo. Best hike I've ever done? If it's not the best 8td be pretty close to it!
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Mer 13 Set 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Matthes Crest | |||||||
5.7 II |
★★★ Traverse from South to North
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Novelty climb, a must do once in a lifetime. Be prepared to hike your ass off.
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Mar 12 Set 2023 - Lake Tahoe, California Side | |||||||
Truckee - Donner Donner Summit Peanut Gallery | |||||||
5.7 |
Bluff
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Ven 8 Set 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Half Dome Northwest Face | |||||||
5.12b |
★★★ Regular Northwest Face
![]() | 670m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Moslty free, up the the 7a pitch, aid what we had to aid
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Lun 4 Set 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face | |||||||
5.9 C2 VI |
★★★ The Nose
![]() | 1000m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
4 days and 3 nights in the wall (el cap tower ->great, camp 4 ->crap, camp 6 -> super slippery) with prehauling to sickle ledge.
Amazing and exhausting experience!
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Dom 27 Ago 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Mt. Conness Area Mt. Conness | |||||||
5.6 II |
★★ North Ridge
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Sab 26 Ago 2023 - High Sierra | |||||||
Mount Dana Area Dana Plateau | |||||||
5.10a III |
★★★ Third Pillar
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Amazing climb
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Sab 26 Ago 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Washington Column South Face | |||||||
5.8 C1 V |
★★★ South Face
![]() | 370m | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
Did it in 2 days with a really beautiful night on dinner ledge. Good for practicing some aid climbing.
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Sab 26 Ago 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Tenaya Peak Area Tenaya Peak Wall | |||||||
5.5 |
★★★ Northwest Buttress
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Mar 22 Ago 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Cathedral Peak Eichorn Pinnacle | |||||||
5.9 III ~5.10b |
★★★ West Pillar
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We climbed the direct West pillar (10b). What a cool crack line and the 10b is so much fun and well protectable.
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Sab 19 Ago 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Matthes Crest | |||||||
5.7 II |
★★★ Traverse from South to North
![]() | 1300m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Complete traverse from South to North. Especially after the North Summit nice climbing and what a beautiful line.
Approach from Bud lake is the shortest.
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Mer 16 Ago 2023 - Malibu Creek State Park | |||||||
Stumbling Blocks | |||||||
5.10a |
GUERRILLA DRILLA
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5.9 |
★ Prow
![]() | 20m | ★ Buona | ||||
loose bolts, potential factor 2 fall from 1st bolt
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Ven 11 Ago 2023 - High Sierra | |||||||
Mammoth Lakes Area Crystal Crag Alpine / Multi-Pitch | |||||||
Class 4 |
★★★ West Face
![]() | 170m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Clouds were looking dark so we hiked up without any gear thinking we'd just check the approach out... but the weather was holding so we scrambled the descent route anyway. Great exposure up the top!!
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Gio 10 Ago 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Tenaya Peak Area Tenaya Peak Wall | |||||||
5.5 |
★★★ Northwest Buttress
![]() | 460m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Awesome climb! Thought it would be a long day but it was fine to solo and simul climb for us and were car to car in 5 hours with some decent amount of faffing and pictures at the summit. Great views of the Sierra's, Half Dome, and Cathedral Peak.
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Mar 8 Ago 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Cathedral Peak | |||||||
5.6 III |
★★★ Southeast Buttress
![]() | 220m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
Awesome climb despite the 10,000 people on it... did the 5.7 variant which including a cool corner.
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Lun 31 Lug 2023 - Lake Tahoe, California Side | |||||||
Truckee - Donner Donner Summit School Rock | |||||||
5.4 |
★★ Kindergarten Slab
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Mar 6 Giu 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Sentinel Rock Area Sentinel Rock | |||||||
5.10b |
★★★ Steck-Salathe
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Steak-salad-day. 'If you cant climb the good-looking 1000m peak, climb its chossier sister'. Id heard about the training methods for this route involving garage door sitting and asphalt parking lot crawling but really henry and i should have put more time into practising going down waterslides at wet and wild without sliding. We got the day started at 5:30 in the carpark to avoid pony-boy's unplanned summit shiver-bivvy scenario. An added incentive was the thunderstorms predicted for the afternoon. But it doesnt rain in yosemite so we werent worried. Got to 'the narrows' at about 2:30, just as the thunderstorm rolled in on schedule. I struggled through with much swearing, henry got the bag stuck on second. I tied him off and rapped back into the chimney to encourage him to ditch the bag! Lucky he had slightly better sense to just take stuff out of the bag till it fit through the chimney. Squeeze struggling while feeling the thunder rattling the rock is a slightly stressful but pretty cool experience. The storm cleared and we went through to the top via an incorrect but very fun series of sporty flake pitches out left, got some photos and then saw another storm inbound. A double header! Tailed it down the gully at 7:15. The rain belted us as we raced down choss, followed by slippery slab waterfalls, henry hurriedly navigating. One particularly sketchy downclimb was bailed off and an impromptu rap down the slabs cost us a couple of slings but we were granted our continued survival in exchange. This journey was being viewed by all our friends through binos in the comfort of camp 4 so were glad we could provide some wet-weather entertainment. After another hour of glissading through broken trees and avoiding unannounced cliffs and waterfalls, we stumbled across a tourist track at 10:15. The car was parked for 16:45. I cant imagine what henry and i will go through on our second climb together. We both deserved the bin pancakes i promised for someone climbing stalathe with me on my facebook ad.
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Lun 5 Giu 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley North Lower Merced Canyon Reed's Pinnacle Area | |||||||
5.10a ~5.10a |
★★★ Reed's Direct
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| 73m | ★★ Molto buona | ||||
I did read the supertopo description of p2 but was stoked to get out and climb so applied a healthy amount of cognitive dissonance and figured I could 'just sit'. nowhere near enough gear with doubles up to #2 then singles up to #4. all four hexes got placed. fought valiantly for the onsight until about halfway then was completely flash pumped. top piece of gear was always placed on lead until the final offwidth. not the first time i've been completely shut down by '5.9' but afaicr the first time i've had to pause part way through pulling up rope to dry heave into a bush.
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Gio 1 Giu 2023 - Bishop Creek | |||||||
Cardinal Pinnacle Main Formation | |||||||
5.10a III |
★★ Cucumbers
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Gio 1 Giu 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southeast Face | |||||||
5.7 A3 VI |
★★★ Mescalito
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Gio 1 Giu 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Middle Cathedral Rock Northeast Face | |||||||
5.10c |
★★★ Stoner's Highway
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'Stoners highway is the best 5.10 in the valley' say all the 5.13 climbers in the valley. Maybe its the only one that makes them feel something. I could believe that. I had mixed feelings originally when gen wanted to take the 5.7 bail out of the reputation opening pitch, but it turned out to be the right move because i had a right coniption on the 2nd. Gr 20 slab sequence 3m above a .2 stuffed in a pin scar 4m above the next piece. I was 10/10 scared for 20 minutes of up and downing the sequence. I tried to recall vague images of the product disclosure on my travel insurance but i couldnt even read the crimps right before my eyes. Finally pulled it, trapsed up the ramp to the chains swearing and brushing sweat from everywhere. From there it didnt let up too much either. Gen had a 5.10 crux 5m above the chains with no gear. I extended by petzl adjust and prepared for a dive to the side. Impressively (impressively?) bold for a classic.
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Mer 31 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Half Dome Southwest Face | |||||||
5.7 R |
★★★ Snake Dike
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12.5hrs car to car. Pretty glad we planned it this time and started at 530 instead of 9! 3 person party with audrey and ariel. Solid nav efforts from audrey kept me from running after the wrong approach trail cairns like a puppy. Ariel contributed with the surprise mini fireball bottle at the top right as the clouds consumed us. Nicer climbing than i expected and good spirits only started to diminish on the hell of a hike back afterwards. Mandatory snow but slides on the east side of the dome were checked off. I booked the last 5k of the hike so i could make dinner for 25min before the girls arrived. Little did i know they were only 3min behind me! Bit of a dog act making them wait for my pasta to boil
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Lun 29 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face | |||||||
5.9 C2 VI |
★★★ The Nose
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When Henry and I first arrived in Yosemite, my stoke to climb much of anything was pretty low. Our campsite in El Portal was 40 minutes out of the park and offered all the social life that retirees in rental RVs could dream of. Oppressive heat baked every wall, and day by day the Valley seemed more like a concentration camp for hoardes of ill-informed tourists than a climbing destination.
After being cited by park rangers on our third day of climbing I was ready to throw in the towel, and had Henry not been on this trip I probably would have. Nonetheless, the pile of aid gear we had both amassed beckoned to be used, and with some inspiration from Nick and Dave (and assurance there’s no rangers hiding in the stovelegs) we set off. I should note that both Henry and I wanted to climb pure alpine style, that is without fixing and hauling to Sickle. In hindsight our early arrival at El Cap Tower meant we could have done this, but on Nick’s advice we compromised by hauling every pitch (including Pine Line and first four) but fixing lines from Sickle and sleeping on the ground. Personally I think this is a big concession in style, but it possibly avoided an epic and got us ahead of the crowds, so I'm happy we did it. Day 1: Jug to Sickle. Henry led every pitch to arrive on El Cap Tower at 5:20pm. Day 2: Mini epic on the Texas flake. Originally Henry was to take the first block, but we swapped for me to lead this pitch. Didn’t die. Henry flashed the King Swing and I recovered from a pretty bad bonk to lead from Grey Bands to Camp 5. The Great Roof was seeping with slimy algae, which made backcleaning the entire thing (so that Henry could lower out) a pretty spicy experience. Day 3: Bit of a slow start while 4 all-star NIAD teams passed us. Triple-crowners Nick and Danford, Connor Herson, Tom Herbert, YOSAR rangers… we felt like the only gumbies on the wall! I led the wild bolt ladder clipping 3 bolts in the top 30 meters and we followed the final NIAD team down to the valley floor. Overall a pretty cool end to a pretty cool trip, and possibly my last log here. I've started to realise I'm not quite eloquent enough to express how I feel on bigger objectives in writing, and most often I simply don't want to.
Back in Sydney in a bit |
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Dom 28 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Higher Cathedral Spire | |||||||
5.9 |
★★★ Regular (Southwest Face) Route
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proper adventure for my first day in the valley, including a long guidebookless approach and spectacular summit. led p1+p3 clean; briefly pulled on gear seconding 5.9++ p2 variant. fully committed to v-groove on p3 well above gear, somehow stayed on more due to stubbornness than actual friction (or maybe because i was going for a substantial ride on a #0.4 whether or not I gave up, or because I thought I was on 5.7)
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Dom 28 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Middle Cathedral Rock Northeast Face | |||||||
5.9 |
★★★ Central Pillar of Frenzy
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Doesnt get better than this. 4 ultra classic grade 17s stacked on top of eachother. No boring moves, directly across from el cap. Good way to send tony off. There was still a snow pack at the base with a 6m+ shrund to step over onto the climb which tony led so i was bracing for it being a really bad way to send him off.
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Dom 28 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley North Lower Merced Canyon New Diversions Cliff | |||||||
5.10a |
★★★ New Diversions
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Climbed this route after 'climbing' generator crack, the token 'im gonna go submit myself for thrashing by a wide crack on top rope' in the valley. New diversions however was an absorbing lead at the grade and an outrageous traverse across the face to a watermelon sized chicken head, no pro, i guess im slinging it. Then mantle said watermelon without kicking your only pro off and tip toe across to a piton. Gen, my climbing partner for the day boldly jumped on the pointy end afterwards and whipped off the chicken head pro! Glad to not have the same thing happen.
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Mer 24 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley North Lower Merced Canyon Pat and Jack Pinnacle Area | |||||||
5.10b |
★★ The Super Slacker Highway
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Great adventure route. Pick your own line up 'the wall of knobs'. Many knobs to choose from but only 2 of them clipped the chains at the top of pat and jack pillar. Tony has rediscovered himself as a chimney climber - positively brimming with joy as he back pressed the final chute to the summit. I expect to have to talk him out of free soloing steck salathe.
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Dom 21 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face | |||||||
5.11b |
★★★ The Freeblast (1st 10 of Salathe)
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El capihoofa!! Finally on the big stone.. The first couple hundred metres but still felt like a 4 year old in a candy shop up in the sea of rock. Bringing sunnies up there would be good beta. That white rock reflects light like snow. Insecure and exciting low angle climbing but never full cheesegrater potential (for me cos shane led the sketchy 5th pitch). An el cap adventure wouldnt have been complete without some french free.. which was the only reason i grabbed the draws instead of sending. We lay on the mammoth ledge top out at 1pm staring up at salathe wall with slack jaws for 20 min before beginning the descent. Getting to rap fixed lines down to the ground for a 5 minute descent to the cars is also a luxury i will miss.
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Sab 20 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Higher Cathedral Rock | |||||||
5.9 |
★★★ Northeast Buttress
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Great adventure. Probably second tallest rock climb ive done to caucasus corner in the bumbles. First time climbing with Ina. She threw down to get through the 5 straight pitches of chimney weirdness. As expected with the incredibly ominous 5.9++ rating and learning that one particular 5.14 valley climber didnt send this thing, there was some suspiciously tricky 5.9 but nothing too insane. I got stuck for about 5 minutes on the 7th pitch. Having forgot my headtorch, i was relieved that we topped the climb around 4 and got some drop dead views of the nose from 1000m off the valley floor directly across the valley from it. 'The sketchiest part of the day was jack drinking water from the sludge river 2 minutes from the carpark as far as im concerned' - Ina.
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Ven 19 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face | |||||||
5.9 C2 VI |
★★★ The Nose
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Mer 17 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Middle Cathedral Rock East Buttress | |||||||
5.10c |
★★★ East Buttress
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5.9 A0. Fucked the last move on the 10c slab.ill Blame the sun for that one
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Mar 16 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Cathedral Rocks Middle Cathedral Rock East Buttress | |||||||
5.10c |
★★★ East Buttress
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Up was fine. But Sloan-bagged once again, we simulrapped straight down the wrong gully (apparently marked “NO!” on mountainproject).
What was meant to be easy raps with a 60 became absolute ropestretchers with our 70m, mostly off little shrubs and requiring exposed down-aiding, unbelayed because the shrubs would probably rip. When the trees were bomber we would simulrap again, comically running across the wall in search of further non-existent anchors for the “easy raps with a 60”. |
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Ven 12 Mag 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Yosemite Falls Upper Yosemite Falls | |||||||
5.10 A2 VI |
Via sin Aqua
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Via a fair bit of aqua id say with the precip this part of the world has had this year. Views of both springbrook falls and half dombrogargon while we traversed the very exposed 3rd class and found the start of the choss corner. The falls were kind of visible around the arete but loud enough to disguise a couple fighter jets that flew overhead at one point. 4 pitches of chimneying and moderately scary face run outs. The scariest bit definitely the '5.7' hanging flake crux where you plug the flake with cams, then hang off it and pounce to a sloper. If the flake comes off, the next piece of pro is an 'antique bolt' as its called in the guide and actually looks more like a door knocker on an english cottage. We got a nice rainbow below us at one point. Top out similar to ozymandias, climbing over the tourist lookout and getting asked by all the 'narps' (non athletic real people) if we were abseiling. A climb that shares the podium with queensland heavyweights clemency and trojan for the best shithouse rockclimbs in the world.
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Mar 28 Mar 2023 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Tuolumne Meadows Cathedral Range Area Cathedral Peak | |||||||
5.6 III |
★★★ Southeast Buttress
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Sab 25 Mar 2023 - Joshua Tree National Park | |||||||
Split Rocks Area West Parking Area Isles In The Sky | |||||||
5.10a |
★★★ Bird Of Fire
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Mar 14 Feb 2023 - Joshua Tree National Park | |||||||
Jumbo Rocks Conan's Corridor Corridor Face | |||||||
5.9 |
★★★ Colorado Crack
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Had to bail half way up leading, managed to get it on top rope.
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Ven 23 Dic 2022 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Yosemite Falls Lower Yosemite Falls Five Open Books The Second Tier | |||||||
5.8 |
★★★ Selaginella (Salginella)
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Ven 23 Dic 2022 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Three Brothers Eagle Creek Area Manure Pile Buttress | |||||||
5.8 |
★★★ The Nutcracker Suite (Nutcracker)
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Northeast And Northface Routes The Northface | |||||||
5.6 |
★★ Graham Crackers
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5.9 |
Kitty Litter Variation
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5.10a |
★ Peer Pressure
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Ven 23 Dic 2022 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Three Brothers Eagle Creek Area Manure Pile Buttress | |||||||
5.8 |
★★ After Seven
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Ven 23 Dic 2022 - Suicide | |||||||
Northeast And Northface Routes The Northface | |||||||
5.10c |
★ Bunny Slope
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5.6 |
★ Break Out
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5.10c |
★★ Hillside Strangler
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Ven 23 Dic 2022 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Half Dome Southwest Face | |||||||
5.7 5.7 R |
★★★ Snake Dike
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Ven 23 Dic 2022 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley Three Brothers Eagle Creek Area Manure Pile Buttress | |||||||
5.8 |
★★★ The Nutcracker Suite (Nutcracker)
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Lun 12 Dic 2022 - Tatooine | |||||||
The Droids | |||||||
5.10c |
★ C3-PO
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Dom 20 Nov 2022 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley El Capitan Southwest Face | |||||||
5.9 C2 VI |
★★★ The Nose
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Yosemite Valley Three Brothers Eagle Creek Area Manure Pile Buttress | |||||||
5.9 |
★★★ Nutcracker Right Start
![]() | 61m | ★★★ Classica | ||||
5.8 |
★★★ Nutcracker
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5.9 |
★ Jump for Joy (Jump for Joy P1)
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5.10a 5.10a PG13 |
★★ Hayley's Comet
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Yosemite Valley The Royal Arches Serenity Crack Area | |||||||
5.10a |
★★★ Sons of Yesterday
![]() | 240m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
5.10d |
★★★ Serenity Crack
![]() | 110m | ★★★ Mega Classica | ||||
Dom 23 Ott 2022 - Yosemite National Park | |||||||
Yosemite Valley North Lower Merced Canyon The Cookie Cliff | |||||||
5.10c |
★★★ Outer Limits P1
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