Sierra NevadaEl Capitan Climber's Log
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| Vitaliy M. | Nose/Lurking Fear/East Buttress  Date Climbed: Oct 14, 2012 | |
| 03/17/2013 The Nose- awesome route. Supposedly one of the best in the world. I could see why. One day fixed to sickle ledge. Moved to El Cap tower on day 2, camp V on day 3, and summit/walk off on day 4, with Alix. 03/03/2013 Lurking Fear- First time up El Cap via a true wall. Fixed 7 pitches on day one, camped at camp 4, and blasted from the bottom to the top in about 17 hours on day 2. Topped out around midnight in a snow/wind storm, I guess that's what you get in winter sometimes haha. Fun times. With Alix and Daniel. http://vividrea1ity.blogspot.com/2013/03/el-capitan-winter-ascent-of-lurking-fear.html 10/14/2012 East Buttress- cool climb. 11hours c2c from El Cap meadow. More to come I hope. With Bryan. | |
| Posted Oct 15, 2012 5:10 pm | ||
| Dunkindoanuts | Upper Yosemite Falls Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2012 | |
| Hiked started at Camp Four( Aka Sunnyside). Hit up the Upper Falls Viewpoint, Eagle Peak, and then El Capitan Summit. It was 95+ degrees and there was thunder in the distance. Strange mix... The start of the hike is no joke... Great Day in the valley! | |
| Posted Aug 14, 2012 12:26 am | ||
| ThePete | El Cap From Valley & Flats Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2007 | |
| Had the wrong shoes but awesome hike nonetheless. Vertigo inducing when overlooking the edge. Loved it. | |
| Posted Jan 20, 2012 6:49 pm | ||
| smurfer | tamarak campgroun to El Cap Date Climbed: Dec 1, 2007 | |
| Nice easy day hike for any level hiker | |
| Posted Jan 9, 2012 10:21 pm | ||
| Paul86 | Pine Line Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2010 | |
| Looking up from the base of this giant was astonishing and awe inspiring. Although my partner and I only did the pine line it felt good to get up on the sucker! Made my imagination run wild of potential climbs to come some time down the road. | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2010 12:19 am | ||
| SKI | Pine Line Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2010 | |
| Great (and difficult) cragging at the base of the Nose. Amazing to be on the guy. Wanna do the East Butt some day... | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2010 9:01 am | ||
| Vinny | surreal cragging at base | |
| We had fun on some cragging routes at base of the nose. RESPECT to you big wall climbers : ) | |
| Posted May 28, 2010 3:59 pm | ||
| Diggler | There's a reason it's called The Big Stone... Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2009 | |
| Rob & I finally got on The Nose, perhaps the greatest climb I've ever been on... Led Pine Line & set up a line on Thursday night. After the first day we set up camp on the Stovelegs. Second night found us atop Texas Flake (Rob led & fixed up to the top of Boot Flake). Storm started around 2.00 (really glad we decided to put up the fly!!) & lasted through the afternoon on Sunday. As we had only 2 more days' provisions & weather was uncertain for the next day or 2, we bailed. Nonetheless, it was truly a memorable experience, & absolutely amazing to be on this storied climb & cliff... Exhausting, taxing, huge, unique, & memorable are some of the words I'd use to describe this. Rob did some great leading, & I plan to be more prepared the next time. Ah'll be back!!!! | |
| Posted Oct 6, 2009 6:50 pm | ||
| rpc | Lurking Fear Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2009 | |
| Very satisfying even it is the easiest wall line on El Cap. Posted a tr. | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2009 7:20 pm | ||
| GroundControl | Dayhike from Tamarack Flat Campground Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2009 | |
| Aside from hiking on a logging/fire road for the first 3.3 miles (ugh), it was an absolutely beautiful hike. You wind your way through lush croppings of trees and a fairly descent elevation gain. I've hiked up to upper Yosemite falls, and it's not as bad of an elevation gain. Terrific weather on this day, 78 and sunny. ~17 miles roundtrip. | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2009 3:03 am | ||
| fortybelow | trail Date Climbed: May 1, 2009 | |
| Excellent views and alot of fun. | |
| Posted Jun 2, 2009 11:56 pm | ||
| HuecoRat | Triple Direct | |
| Four wonderful, cool-weather days. Bivied at Mammoth, one pitch left of Camp IV, at Camp VI, and right beside the summit tree. What a fantastic adventure! | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2009 11:37 am | ||
| Ingman | The Nose Date Climbed: May 27, 2005 | |
| 3 days w/ T. Melin | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2008 5:40 pm | ||
| Sierra Ledge Rat | Triple Direct | |
| With my buddy Young Chu | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2008 11:07 pm | ||
| Fredd C Dobbs | YFT Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2008 | |
| Long & arduous day hike for me- but worth the effort. | |
| Posted Jun 13, 2008 10:47 am | ||
| 96avs01 | Dayhike from the Valley Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2008 | |
| Took the upper Yosemite Falls trail from the valley. Great views, and the crowds thinned once past the Falls overlook. Total mileage for the day was ~20 miles with 4K vert., great way to cap off 10 days climbing in the Sierra/Inyo-White Mtns. Trip Report | |
| Posted Jun 6, 2008 7:44 pm | ||
| fatdad | Various routes climbed: been too long | |
| 1983: Zodiac. I was a nineteen year old punk and dragged my 17 year old buddy with me. Litte did I know our other buddies were betting him cams that we'd bail, which he only confessed to me halfway up. Lots of hard thin nailing back then. Everything else I've done since has felt easy in comparison. By far my biggest breakthrough in terms of what I could achieve, both as a climber and in life. 1991: The Shield. What can you say? It's the Shield. 1992: West Face. A long day. Awesome to be able to look up from the base and hope you're going to be able to cover that much ground in a day (actually, for us, a little over a day). 1995: Pacific Ocean Wall. Great route. A few tricky sections but not nearly as hard as I thought it would be. Having grown up reading Greg Child's account in Mountain magazine about the second ascent, it felt awesome to climb such a historic route. Bailed more times than I can count: three times off the Nose (twice because of people poaching our lines, once after getting rained on in the Stovelegs), snowed off of Lurking Fear and stormed off from the top of pitch 5 of Mescalito. | |
| Posted Jun 5, 2008 2:19 pm | ||
| utclimber | Salathe Wall | |
| Climbed Lurking Fear over Halloween 2005, and the Salathe Wall in May of 2006. The headwall of the Salathe Wall is the most exposure I've ever experienced. | ||
| Posted Jan 14, 2008 12:21 am | ||
| bluefunk | Big Stone | |
| Climbed East Butt and the Trip, what a amazing piece of stone!!! | |
| Posted Dec 20, 2007 1:25 pm | ||
| Peak Baguette | Route: Via Upper Yose Falls Date Climbed: Nov 10, 2007 | |
| I heard this route was the "easy" way... gotta love it when 16 miles and 4K of elevation gain is called the "easy" way ;) | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2007 7:42 pm | ||
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