Record of teams on the Diamond Sun. 7/16 ?

Maybe a record was set last Sunday, I counted 9 teams on the Diamond though someone said it was 11. Kudos to the Front Range community for a thorough sending of a fine wall. My count was 3 teams for the casual route, 2 on yellow wall, 1 on D7, 2 on perverical, and 1 team aiding something on the right side, sweet sunday seranade.

That can't be a record. The day I climbed the Casual Route there were at least 7 parties on it! And this was a Thursday 14 years ago. I don't recall how many parties were on other routes but the total had to be over 30 people I would guess. This was after a period of poor weather and was the first day with a perfect weather forecast in about a month ...

Amazing amount of people for such hard climbing. Makes me doubt the description list here on Mountain Project about the Petit:

By now perhaps the most popular alpine climb in the country. DO NOT--repeat, DO NOT do this climb on a weekend.

Wow 7 parties on the casual route is amazing, I can see the weather window is everything up there, that it was a thursday is fantastic.
I must say the casual route was the best alpine rock climb I've ever done. I wonder if there is any trad route of that grade nationwide that is more fun. (I havn't climbed at red rocks yet.)

zak wrote:Wow 7 parties on the casual route is amazing, I can see the weather window is everything up there, that it was a thursday is fantastic. I must say the casual route was the best alpine rock climb I've ever done. I wonder if there is any trad route of that grade nationwide that is more fun. (I havn't climbed at red rocks yet.)

I've been up the Casual Route 5 times over the years and I never get tired of it. I think it is a fantastic route especially for the grade. I have also done Pervertical and Yellow Wall to Forest Finish a couple of times and I think the casual route is almost as good as these other harder super-classic lines. For Alpine routes I think the casual route must be one of the best around - although the high seirra may have something to challenge.

cool, that was us over on the dunn/westbay route. us couple of chicagolanders sent it as our first wall.

didn't happen to take any pictures maybe?

it was a busy week out there, the weather was FANTASTIC. with so many parties out the atmosphere was just super cool. we finished that day out with a portaledge bivy under table ledge (roof).

Good for you guys to do that as a first wall, I did take some pictures but they're not very good 'cause I had a disposable camera and you were far away.

JGidd, I thought Pervertical was great also, the 5.11 pitch was very pumpy. I guess there are lots of sweet pitches everywhere.

I have also seen 5 or more parties on the Casual. My last time up there though, I know there were parties on Ariana, Pervertical, Curving Vine, Soma, D7, Forrest, Yellow Wall, and Casual. I think there was only ONE party on Casual that day! And I think there was also a party who climbed the Obelisk, but after they turned the corner it was hard to tell. That was pretty rad. However, I still prefer it when you have the entire wall to yourself. I've been so pleasured on 5 occasions, 3 of which were plain luck, and the other 2 in early and late season. It seems as if every pitch on that thing is just magnificent.

i agree, having all of those parties on the wall is cool in one way, it was also cool in another to have the whole place to ourselves. we portaledge bivied on the wall 4 nights, i must highly suggest this activity. waking up out there was sureal, it was fun watching the parties sprout from the north chimney in the morning, watch them climb all day, rap down and get outa there in the late afternoon. we had sunrise and sunset all to ourselves!

Right on. I shared your experience on an early season ascent of D7 with a ledge. We cashed in on a very old favor from a dude rancher who sported us a pack horse up to Boulder Field, where we pitched a tent, then descended from Chasm View to Broadway. We slept at the base of the route and at Table Ledge. The morning we woke up on Table Ledge, everything was souped in down low, and we were totally above the clouds. It was like being on a volcano or something. And of course, nobody else around. The cruxes of the trip were traversing Broadway, and then descending the North Face - super treacherous alpine ice conditions, while carrying the pig. My partner had it easy! Nice job on Dunn-Westbay.