Salathe trip report


[cross-posted at BigWalls.com - sorry, I'm a ham.]

Outstanding. Sounds like a slog. Awesome write up.

Excellent work! How you made it up that wall hauling 160lbs is beyond me...

Awesome Report!
My wife and I saw you guys from the meadow...

Great send, Greg & Wally!
Did elcap-pics see you up there?

was the hollow flake as bad as it seemed? you had a homemade cam for this pitch? how far did you have to run it out?

though it sounds like the roof pitch up high was more eventful.

Steve - We gave Tom a beer at the bridge. His photos are labeled in the slideshow.
Paul - Wally led that pitch, and I think it was as hard or harder than expected. I'll let him chime in on the particulars, but the cam made it more than 3/4 of the way up.
I made the #7 VallyCamaFriendAlot specifically for that pitch, but we ended up using it on 4 different pitches to good effect (Hollow Flake, the chimney after that, the Ear, and the exit chimney on P34.) I got the strongest torsion springs I could find so that it still worked well when tipped out near the 9" mark.

Greg,

That thing is absolutely amazing, thanks for posting the picture!

Which factory in China did the fab work?? Just kidding.

Congratulations to you and Wally ( and Dave ) Awesome work!!!

Thanks for the kudos guys.

David - we used the Chongo 2 to 1 system to haul. The temps were warm - therefore the bags were heavy! - we drank about a gallon of water per person per day, not including all of the applesauce, fruit cocktail, etc. that was also consumed.

Paul - the Hollow Flake certainly has my respect. I thought it was pretty hard. The pro beta for that pitch is right on - bring a #5 for down low, and a #6 - and then you have to run it out for a long way on Yosemite 5.8 (or 5.9??) OW. Having Greg's homemade #7 camalot certainly took some of the commitment out of that pitch for me - I slid it along just about all of the way to the anchors. Lame - sure.!

:<). I am okay with that.

Great climb with very memorable pitches. Harder than the Nose - mostly because of the wide pitches. The Ear was nasty hard. Good stuff.

Climb Ohn. Wally

real nice TR !!

Gregger, that cam is beautiful!

That is an absolutely wonderful TR.