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Home made drawing of the 1990 route "One That Almost Got Away" on Third Pillar of Mt. Dana, Tuolumne High Country. Drawing by Alois Smrz.
Comments [ Post a Comment ]| rpc | Much good work. | | 
Voted 10/10 | This is great. Thanks for submitting. | | Posted Feb 9, 2005 12:44 pm |
 | | asmrz | Re: Much good work. | | 
Hasn't voted | Thanks. As you can see from the punched holes, it has been in my informal book of topos for quite a while. This is really worthy route and more importantly, I now have scanner so I'm getting dangerous.
Cheers, Alois. | | Posted Feb 9, 2005 8:44 pm |
| ChugachMan | First Pitch | | 
Hasn't voted | I just got word that this is the route that Jeff Maurer started up, pulled two pieces, and fell to his death on this fall - about midway up the first pitch. The pro is horrible at the crux, and you will be looking at ground fall from 60-80 feet on what I would estimate as hard 5.10 or easy 5.11 (5.10b/c seemed a little sandbagged to me, when comparing to Tahquitz and Jtree grades). If you do decide to climb it, please be careful.
edit: knifeblade comment removed. | | Posted Nov 11, 2009 4:07 pm |
| asmrz | First Pitch | | 
Hasn't voted | The knifeblades recommended in my write-up were for the aid sections higher up. Miguel led our first pitch with clean pro,with Stoppers, RPs and small Cams if I remember correctly (it has been a while). Sorry to hear that someone might have been killed on this. When we did this all those years ago, it was a serious climb for us, possibly the hardest we have done till then. Maybe the committment remains high, even today. | | Posted Nov 13, 2009 11:47 am |
 | | ChugachMan | Re: First Pitch | | 
Hasn't voted | Thanks again for the clarification Alois, and props to you and Miguel for putting up this neat line. It definitely is a pretty serious pitch, but I also recall it being a very satisfying and fun one once it was all over. It sounds like we'll probably learn more about the accident in the new issue of ANAM. | | Posted Nov 13, 2009 12:13 pm |
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