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[TR] Southern Yosemite - many 10/12/2008


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Trip: Southern Yosemite - many

 

Date: 10/12/2008

 

Trip Report:

Southern Yosemite provides the motivated climber with endless amazingly featured granite domes with dozens of sport-bolted and trad routes.

 

My friend Matt Shutz and I went the the area this weekend to investigate some of his unfinished routes including a nice 11a ca. 150 meter route that he finished on Sat in a nice blizzard.

 

In addition, we went to an area that provided dozes of sport-bolted routes up an amazing dome. There were about half a dozen routes ranging from 10b up to 13a? I believe.

 

Most of the routes are 60m meters in length and offer unparalleled sport climbing on huge, steep, and clean granite faces. We finished the day by climbing the first pitch up this 11 b/c put up by Grahm. It's crazy to climb a full 60 meters of sustained hard climbing. It's like doing a 3-pitch route in one pitch.

 

Matt finishing his project. It's interesting climbing 11a with his goddamn 40 lb bosch drill set-up when you're following.

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About 400 feet off the deck it began to snow. Hard.

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It was so warm.

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The route follows the right facing corner then up a central black streak.

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Day 2:

 

The Dome.

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Grahm warming up.

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Cooking now.

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Jeff on the 11b/c I finished with.

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Nice pics. Good job it wasn't the middle finger you're sticking up there 'Matt' ;)

 

Personally, I'd prefer to second up that rock face, or else I may pass out - just a feeling I'd get due to the height and exposure; I'd be okay seconding though, except I can't climb 5.11 yet (or ever), 5.10's are my limit for seconding right now.

 

 

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