Flyboys Shuttling
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Anyone looking to climb this route next Saturday 8/11/18 who would be interested in coordinating a shuttle down? |
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The rap off goes surprisingly quickly. |
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Jason4Too wrote: The rap off goes surprisingly quickly. You must be superhuman. I refuse to ever rap 18 pitches ever again in my life. |
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At risk of derailing this thread, anybody who's done this route have any comments about it? Is it actually any good? Seems to be getting lots of hype, but I've been pretty underwhelmed with the climbing I've done on Goat Wall. I thought Sisyphus was kind of a stinker. |
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Hector Luevano wrote: I went into it expecting the rap to take 4 hours or more. I've rapped from the top of the 6th pitch and was down in 45 minutes and from the top of the 12th pitch and was down in less than two hours. I don't see the top 1/3 of the route adding a lot more time. I've been told that driving a bike (or car) to the top will cost you at least an hour of time setting up the shuttle. Rapping isn't the fastest way down but it does leave you the option of bailing anytime you want if you're tired of waiting on the party ahead of you. |
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The rap times Jason is reporting are pretty consistent with my descent of a little over 2 hours for all 18 raps. It's really not that bad. |
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Isn't Goat Wall ridiculously hot this time of year? |
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This has all been pretty useful commentary and I think the plan at this point is to just rap. |
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How did it go, David? There was a rescue last night on Flyboys... |
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Nick Sweeney wrote: Isn't Goat Wall ridiculously hot this time of year? Yeah. I was up at Washington Pass this past week and it was damn hot in the sun--and that's damn near a mile above Mazama. It was toasty at 8000 feet on Cathedral Peak. Sure enough, popped down to the store for some brews and there were people who'd been on the Goat Wall broiling themselves. I literally cannot imagine subjecting myself to that. It gets sun by late morning and it was well over 100 in Mazama for a few days last week. I'd say the temperature there right now can be legitimately dangerous and strongly advise against it. |
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Also, FYI the road for the bike/vehicle shuttle is closed due to wildfire. Perhaps routes like Flyboys are best saved for another time given all the factors - road, smoke, heat, etc |
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Wow 2 rescues in a weekend then, we randomly bumped into one of the setters who had to go up there and pick 2 climbers who couldn't find the rap station in the dark off in the morning. |
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FWIW |
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A buddy and I climbed Flyboys and Prime Rib a couple days ago, right after SAR/coast guard heli plucked a benighted duo off around pitch 10. They couldn't find the raps in the dark - according to the register, I think they started around 10 AM and we saw their headlights near the top around 9PM. Burdo was extremely interested in where/what and kept tabs on how to make it safer. You could tell he really cares about the route and safety.
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