Sierra NevadaRoyal Arches Climber's Log
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| breadbox | so fun  | |
| Traded leads w/ Brendan, a delightful outing while the Giants won the World Series! | |
| Posted Feb 12, 2013 2:35 am | ||
| WML | Trial By Fire -> Rain | |
| Climbed Trial By Fire (awesome .8 OW!) and planned on linking up with Super Slide but then came the rain... So we fled down-Valley | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2011 12:59 pm | ||
| brucelacroix | Fun route | |
| Climbed with Dave N. on a Las Vegas mounties trip. 2005? | ||
| Posted Jun 3, 2011 8:40 pm | ||
| splattski | Wandering around Date Climbed: Oct 10, 1989 | |
| Date is approximate (and a long time ago). We got a late start, wandered off-route, and ended up spending a cold October night (in shorts) at the top. I remember a beautiful full moon rising over Half Dome. I also remember it was so calm that we could hear people discussing their dinner as they left the Ahwanee while we starved on our little dirt-patch bivy. Walked off the next day. | |
| Posted Apr 16, 2011 7:52 am | ||
| mp5of8 | Twice 30 yrs apart | |
| First climb in '75 we were so slow we bivvied on top, second in '05, 4.5 hrs. | |
| Posted Apr 15, 2011 11:27 am | ||
| Paul86 | Great Climb Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2010 | |
| Excellent route with good variation and challenges. The rating of 5.7 was sandbagged in a typical Yosemite Valley sort of way. | |
| Posted Sep 14, 2010 12:17 am | ||
| SKI | Amazing!!! Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2010 | |
| Swapped leads with Paul-Wall on this grand adventure. Loved the glory pitch of solid hand jams to a thankful tree rest. Epic rappelling... Who does this in under an hour??? Took us 13! | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2010 9:11 am | ||
| marauders | Good stuff Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2010 | |
| Fun, long route. The upper pitches are better and cleaner than the lower pitches. Lots of traversing which isn't too bad. Up and down in one long day (8am-8pm). | |
| Posted Jul 14, 2010 7:29 pm | ||
| Snowslogger | Highpoint of my rock climbing Date Climbed: May 26, 1986 | |
| My only "big" wall climb. I led the last pitch in the dark rather than spend the night on the wall. Instead we spent the night on top! | |
| Posted Dec 30, 2009 4:17 pm | ||
| haishan | Royal Arches Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2009 | |
| Climbed with Bill... very crowded, but made good time and got down NDG in broad daylight. This route is simply awesome. | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2009 6:41 pm | ||
| Bill Kish | Royal Arches Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2009 | |
| Swapped leads with Patrick and descended the NDG. An awesome day with perfect weather! | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2009 1:39 am | ||
| tombcronin | Royal Arches Date Climbed: Oct 3, 2009 | |
| Rappelled with twin 60m ropes. | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2009 6:30 pm | ||
| Vinny | canada day with Michael Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2006 | |
| great times with Michael aus Deutschland- he snuck a couple king cans up and produced them at top. plans to finish with crown jewel after the arches were changed after our food was grabbed by opportunistic rodents. descent was pretty gnarly. awesome route! | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2009 7:23 pm | ||
| Tom Fralich | Super Slide Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2008 | |
| Super Slide (II 5.9, 5 pitches) -- October 10, 2008 -- Mary and I climbed this route on a cold, windy day in October. Mary wore a down jacket for the entire climb. The second pitch was nice, following a thin crack to a thin smeary face to a perfect splitter. The top three pitches were great with increasingly difficult climbing. The final crack was stellar, but more like thin hands than wide fingers for me. Peruvian Flake (5.10a, 1 pitch) -- October 12, 2010 -- Mary and I climbed this excellent route while scouting the start to Royal Arches. I don't think it's a 5.10, but the moves were super fun and the pro is bomber. Royal Arches (III 5.7 A0, 15 pitches) -- October 13, 2010 -- Finally climbed this one on a hot sunny day in October. We did the 5.8 alternate start, which was great. The chimney looked aweful, especially with a backpack. We made excellent progress even with many other parties on the route. We took about 7 hr for the climb and 3 hr for the descent. | |
| Posted Oct 10, 2008 11:00 pm | ||
| Bob Burd | Royal Arches / North Dome Gully Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2008 | |
| An enjoyable and full day with Michael Golden. Trip Report | |
| Posted Jul 28, 2008 12:30 am | ||
| snowflake | May 1991 | |
| Ended up bivying at top of North Dome gully - spent the rest of the summer learning to lead faster. | |
| Posted May 8, 2008 3:49 pm | ||
| jmc | nice weather Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2007 | |
| Lead every pitch, we moved fast. We were the first ones up in the morning. No one would have caught up except we made the mistake of taking only one rope. The raps took forever! Some guys with two ropes passed us up near the last rap. | |
| Posted Dec 22, 2007 8:55 am | ||
| Zzyzx | Royal Arches Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2007 | |
| Climbed with Dirk (Diggler). It was a COLD morning, so we didn't start until 10 AM. Took us 10 hours to climb it an get back down. It was the most crowded I've seen it (climbed twice before), which delayed us quite a bit. On one of the rappels the rope got stuck and Dirk climbed to retrieve it. Over all it was a fun climb and Dirk is a great climbing partner. | ||
| Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:39 am | ||
| forjan | Epic descent Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2007 | |
| Climbed Royal Arches w/ Brad Mastros. The climb itself went fine; we encountered like 5 other parties on the route including Kris & Dirk from SP. We had kinda of a late start; got off-route like twice and did a friction run-out variation on pitch 5. We moved slow and so we topped out at ~ 6:00pm.....just before dark. Since we didn't bring a 2nd rope for the rappel descent and we heard horror stories on the treacherous "North Dome gully" descent (known for it share of accidents), we opted to hike up ~ 1500 feet and hopefully find the North Dome trail back down through Yosemite Falls and down to the Valley. A very long, long way out. It was dark & too cold to bivy with the clothes we brought. Dehydration was kicking in and I started to staggered. Luckly, we found a creek to replenish with water. After trashing for nearly 4 hrs in the dark , we finally found the North Dome trail at 10:54pm. We thought we're home-free. Not! We lost the trail by the granite slabs near Yosemite Point. It was now even colder & windy! We searched for what it seemed like an hour. Finally, found it and started down. We're both exhausted (ran out of food and had limited water from the creek). We took several breaks on the way down. At approx 4:30am we staggered onto Brad's car parked at the Ahwahee Hotel parking lot. We collapsed into our tent just before 5:00am (we had been out 19 hours on the go). | |
| Posted Oct 8, 2007 7:53 pm | ||
| cluck | Royal Arches Date Climbed: May 17, 2007 | |
| Wow. What great fun. 1st long climb in the Valley two days after a run up Snake Dike on 1/2 dome. 1st pitch chimney was very hard with a too large pack and polished walls. What a grunt. A0 swing was fun. No problem with water on traverse. 6.5 hrs up moving at a moderate pace. We took the low traverse over to the descent gully that was more unnerving than the climb. | |
| Posted May 20, 2007 3:57 pm | ||
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