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| tobe945 | royal for a reason  Date Climbed: May 9, 2009 | |
| Partnered up with Diggler for a great long climb. Longest multipitch I have done to date. Got a late start and consequently finished late; did all ~12 rappells in the dark. Amazing day though. Best views of the Valley are from up high, away from the tourists and screaming kids :) | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2009 2:24 am | ||
| MtnMagic | Nice day out Date Climbed: May 20, 2009 | |
| Nice quick route. Walk off not really a "walk off". More of an adventure than the climb itself! Beautiful route overall though. Great views throughout. | |
| Posted Jun 17, 2009 1:30 am | ||
| baumann_pat | North Dome link Date Climbed: May 25, 2009 | |
| Linked RA with CJ for a nice day of climbing. Started at 6am, topped out on North Dome at 3pm and back in Camp 4 at 5:30pm. | |
| Posted May 28, 2009 2:04 am | ||
| dswink | Fun climb & tough rap Date Climbed: May 16, 2009 | |
| A fine climb in beautiful weather. The pendulum was fun but the exposure really captured my attention. We planned to use a new 7mm rope on the pull side of the double rope rappel but it snarled and knotted up every time we tossed it. Single rope rappels on our 70 m climbing rope got us down but took longer. A memorable day of climbing. | |
| Posted May 26, 2009 4:24 pm | ||
| SpankyBob | First Big Climb Date Climbed: Aug 14, 1979 | |
| First "big" climb. Lead some of the easier pitches and had a great time. I wish I had been old enough to have a beer when we came down. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2008 2:09 pm | ||
| pvalchev | Royal Arches Date Climbed: May 17, 2008 | |
| Great day out with Parisa. By the time we were roped up and climbing, it was about 8am... not as early as we hoped, but we were back at the car at 4pm - did the rappel route. Everything was dry, but the weather was quite hot (around 30C/90F)... quite hot. Wore my approach shoes which was nice and comfy. http://sightly.net/peter/trips/royalarches2008/ | |
| Posted May 22, 2008 10:04 pm | ||
| Sam Page | Awesome Date Climbed: May 30, 2000 | |
| I forget the exact date. This was my favorite climb in Yosemite. We simul-climbed most of it and completed the route in about five hours round trip. | |
| Posted Apr 23, 2008 9:40 pm | ||
| peakrat76 | Favorite Climb - III, 5.6, A1 Date Climbed: May 25, 1975 | |
| Climbed with service buddy over Memorial Day Weekend, 1975. The route was so crowded we got benighted 1 pitch below the exit (just after the nasty, really wet traverse with the 1400 feet of exposure.) Our group of two ended up on a very spacious ledge with 5 others. Pooled our meager food - built a small fire and had one of the best nights ever. Beautiful climbing and mind expanding exposure. Loved the pendulum. Was the Rotten Log scary? You'd better believe it! No wonder this is one of the 50 classic climbs. | |
| Posted Apr 23, 2008 1:31 pm | ||
| Vinny | Fantastic Canada Day Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2005 | |
| Michael surprised me at the top with a couple extra size labatts beers (didnt dare tell him they are bottom of Canadian beer barrel). We cooled them in the spring at the top and then scoped out the route above. We were up by 400 but carrying overnight gear knackered us. We slept out planning for an early start on the sporty slab route above but animals ate all our food despite (what we thought were) clever hanging tactics. WE bailed after a fantastic route! we did the walk off. Hope to go back with wife and son. | |
| Posted Oct 30, 2007 11:53 pm | ||
| tb00957 | royal arches 5.7A0 Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2007 | |
| We started about 6am, got the top around 1pm, rapped and car at 5pm. We only saw one party simu-climbing ahead of us, they topped out when we were around pitch 6. And a soloist when we had lunch above pitch 15. Where is everybody? | ||
| Posted Jun 4, 2007 2:02 pm | ||
| Matt Worster | Gorgeous spring day Date Climbed: Mar 24, 2007 | |
| Tough to beat lunching 1500' above the valley floor, legs propped up under a tree, chillin' in the shade. This is a good life. | |
| Posted Mar 27, 2007 7:55 pm | ||
| mvs | wow Date Climbed: Jun 12, 1999 | |
| I was so worried about the length of the climb that I couldn't sleep! We camped right below the chimney first pitch, which I looked up at all night wondering if I could lead it. Rope stuck on the rappel descent, happily another party helped us out. | |
| Posted Mar 19, 2007 1:31 pm | ||
| Wallylongridge | Reg. Route Date Climbed: Jul 7, 1976 | |
| i've climbed this route about 6 times. That tree use to be a little scary. i always wondered what year that tree fell. | |
| Posted Feb 16, 2007 4:28 am | ||
| highice | little theives | |
| this would be our 3rd attempt...too many people and slow climbers made us abort other attempts. so we three actually fixed the first two P's with our double ropes and then slept. woke, jugged up and found that someone (who used the rope to descend that night)had stolen all the hardware that had been attaching the ropes. they tied a funky knot around a tree (not even a climbers knot) in place of the gear. also left the lower rope lying in the mud, instead of putting it back on the knob off the ground. bad carma for them to climb on stolen gear! regardless, we scampered up these two lines quickly and were well ahead of the crowd...it was 5 AM though. nice route and hung out til sunset, then rapped down the steep face under a full moon. | |
| Posted Feb 6, 2007 10:12 pm | ||
| Flex | fun in the sun Oct/01 | |
| A great route & one of the finist intros to long Valley routes. I've been up it twice but still haven't made the link up with North Dome directly above. Has the ~45min. round trip record been broken yet? | |
| Posted Dec 26, 2006 6:01 pm | ||
| alpinebunny | Super Fine | |
| Super fine, super fun. My partner Chris and I did all 15 pitches in 3.75 hrs.....giddy up! Descended the gully....scary death slabs | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2006 6:18 am | ||
| dervin | Lont Descent Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2006 | |
| This was our first time on the route. We made it up just fine, but got a little off route on the descent. | |
| Posted Oct 10, 2006 5:00 am | ||
| Cookie Addict | snake at the rap rings Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2006 | |
| A buddy and I did the route in fine weather in 8 hours. There was a balack and white California Kingsnake near the top rap rings that scared the crap out of me as I was 70 from my last piece. A great day out though. | |
| Posted Jul 20, 2006 11:09 pm | ||
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