Yosemite Valley - Wrap-up: two weeks in The Valley 10/11/2009
Posted By: denalidevo in California
Trip: Yosemite Valley - Wrap-up: two weeks in The Valley
Date: 10/11/2009
Trip Report:Sep 27 through Oct 11: my fifth annual Fall trip to The Valley. Good times as usual, including my first ever big wall.
The sum of it:
- Munginella - II, 5.6 (led p2)
- Church Bowl Lieback - I, 5.8 (led)
- Revival - I, 5.10a (TR)
- The Grack, Center - II, 5.6 (led p1,3)
- The Grack, Left - II, 5.7 (led p2)
- Sloth Wall - I, 5.7 (followed)
- Just for Starters - I, 5.10a (led)
- Anti Ego Grack - I, 5.7 (led)
- Turkey Pie - I, 5.7 (TR)
- Nurdle - I, 5.8 (led)
- Sherrie's Crack - I, 5.10c (TR)
- Royal Arches - III, 5.7 A0 (led p1; simuled p2-4; led p5, 6; simuled p7; led p9, 11, 12, 15) **3rd ascent and still fun
- The Goblet, Center - I, 5.6 (led)
- The Goblet, Right - I, 5.8/9 (TR)
- Goodrich Pinnacle - II+, 5.9R (led p3-7)
- Knob Job - I, 5.10b (led p2, 5.8)
- Sherrie's Crack - I, 5.10c (TR)
- Babble On - I, 5.10a off-width (followed)
- Suds - I, 5.9 (led)
- Boneheads - I, 5.10b (led - sport route)
- Crest Jewel - III, 5.10a (led p1, 2, 4, 6, 8)
- Highway Star - I, 5.10a/b (TR)
- Southern Man - V, C2 5.9 (led p3 free 5.8; led p7 C1 5.7)
- Copper Penny - I, 5.10a off-width (followed)
- Five and Dime - I, 5.10d (followed)
Pictorial highlights:
The Grack, Glacier Point Apron
Sloth Wall, Knob Hill
A0 pendulum, Royal Arches
Pitch 14, Royal Arches
Pitch 3, Crest Jewel
Pitch 7, Crest Jewel
Half Dome panorama from North Dome
Crest Jewel summit shot
Washington Column
Pitch 4, Southern Man
Chillin' on Dinner Ledge, Washington Column
Sunset on El Cap from Washington Column
Jugging on day two of Southern Man
Pitch 6, Southern Man
Climber on South Face of Washington Column
Jugging pitch 6, Southern Man
Leading pitch 7, Southern Man
Final rap off Washington Column
Our progress on Southern Man - we climbed 7 of the 10 pitches
Seth leading Copper Penny
The perils of off-width crack climbing
View 'em all:
Yosemite 2009 photosGear Notes:Placed my first #6 Camalot, bought some offset nuts too...
Approach Notes:Absolutely NO deadly manzanita bushwhacks and unplanned bivies!
