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| Zzyzx | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: August 14, 2005  | |
| We chose to do the alternate 1st pitch, as there was already another party climbing the chimney. I went half way up and then bailed out. Pavel finished the pitch. The rest of the climb went pretty smoothly. There were two other parties on the route , which slowed us down a bit, but not too bad. Chose to hike down the North Dome gully this time. I'm not quite sure though if this is a better option than the rappels. | ||
| Posted Aug 22, 2005 2:36 am | ||
| kovarpa | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: August 14, 2005 | |
| Fun. Climbed with Kris. 6.5 hrs up, 2hrs down the North Gully. | |
| Posted Aug 16, 2005 12:07 am | ||
| Brian Frederick | Route Climbed: royal arches Date Climbed: 70's and 80's | |
| My first very long climb, got hung up by other parties and finished hike down in the dark. Did it later in much finer style and again as a warm up to Middle Cathedral to work on speed. classic route and definitly fun | |
| Posted May 17, 2005 12:50 am | ||
| Misha | Route Climbed: 5.8 variation Date Climbed: October 3, 2004 | |
| At last I had my revenge after getting rained off the 9th pitch earlier this year. As Etsuko and I approached the base of the route, we found several parties to be ahead of us. Instead of taking the queue below the chimney, we walked around the base and climbed the 5.8 variation of the 1st pitch. Great! After that lots of painful waiting for other parties continued throughout the route (maybe 3-4 hours of waiting altogether). We finally made it to the beginning of the rappel route by 5pm. After teaming up with Bela and Adam (who we've met on the route that day), we joined our 60m ropes and started the rappel. About half way through it, the night descended on us making it very hard to navigate (2 and a half headlamps between four of us). After lots of routefinding challenges, we finally made it do the section of the route we could recongize. Few more rappels delivered us safely to the ground, at 11:30pm! Memorable pitches (as per SuperTopo) were: 1 (5.8 var), 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12/13 (we linked these two) Fantastic adventure! | |
| Posted Oct 4, 2004 1:32 pm | ||
| asmrz | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: May 1980 | |
| Memorial Weekend in 1980. A friend woke me up at 8:30 am in Upper Pines Campground. He said I have a Spanish climber here with me and nobody wants to climb with him because he doesn't speak any English. Would you go with him up Royal Arches? My friend said, he's just like you, European, alpine type guy, he wants to go fast. So I said OK and another guy drove us to the climb while telling me how we need to go fast because many people bivi on this (this was in 1980). So I told this 18 year old Spaniard; Miguel, Muy Rapido, Si? We flew up the pitches and in no time hit the 5.9 section. There we roped up, Miguel just ran the pitch without any pro and some guys sitting at the belay asked me "Is this somebody famous?" We got to the top in 3 hours, 20 minutes and made it back to Campground at 1:30 in the afternoon. For many years we were teased by friends about how we skipped the climb and just pretended to do the line in 3.5 hours. But that's how I met my 25 year climbing partner Miguel Carmona. | |
| Posted Jul 3, 2004 8:31 pm | ||
| Carbo | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: 6/6/4 | |
| The first long multipitch of the year, my climbing partner and I alternated leads. The climb was great fun. The views were amazing and there were lots of water in the yosmite falls. The chimney wasn't as bad as expected, but the rap descent was long. | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2004 9:27 pm | ||
| Romain | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Route Date Climbed: June 25, 2004 | |
| Climbed with Rene' Renteria, alternating leads. Great weather, great views, great climbing, what more can you ask for? TR is here. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2004 1:46 am | ||
| Hamilton | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: March 17, 2004 | |
| Just climbed the route yesterday for the first time. We were worried that there would be too much water on the route due to snow melt but the stream crossing on the pendulum pitch wasn’t too bad – about 20 feet of running water (no more than an inch or two deep - it’s also easily protectable). We got a little wet but it was worth it. The weather was perfect – 80 degrees in the valley – in March!! Descended via the rap route in the dark. Finding the rap bolts in the dark was definitely a bit of a challenge. | |
| Posted Mar 18, 2004 2:07 pm | ||
| depclimb | Route Climbed: Regualr Route Date Climbed: June 1975 | |
| We were newbies, started at 8 and finished at 5. Inching across that log with all of that air was a unique experience. It is a fun climb and I've done it twice since, both in much faster times. | |
| Posted Mar 12, 2004 5:55 pm | ||
| kletterwebbi | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: August 1996, September 2000 | |
| I climbed it together with my wife Rike and my buddy Klaus "Alaska" Irmler. It was a great pleasure ... I climbed the route a second time in 2000 toghether with Jörg Dufner in 2 hours as approach to the North Dome. Together with the North Dome it was a big epic. | |
| Posted Mar 12, 2004 5:31 am | ||
| Rob | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: 1997 | |
| Fun, even though it's way easy. | |
| Posted Mar 12, 2004 12:49 am | ||
| Josh | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: Summer 2002 | |
| Free-soloed the route. Well, not really because I grabbed the fixed rope at the pendulum. The route is more of a scramble with a few steep parts than it is a rock climb. Still, it's quite worthwhile. Descended the horrible North Dome Gully. | |
| Posted Mar 12, 2004 12:44 am | ||
| bearbnz | Route Climbed: Royal Arches Date Climbed: Several | |
| I've been up this 3 times, and my 1st 2 rookie efforts were much more epic than they should have been. Once in the dark, once in the dark with rain/snow, and the last time it finally went smoothly (and relatively fast) in the daylight. | |
| Posted Mar 12, 2004 12:35 am | ||
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