North America Wall on El Cap - Video TR

Like pretty much everyone, we're in lock-down in UK. No climbing and not much opportunity to interact with the other 500 members of our climbing club: The Rucksack Club, so Bill and I put together a Zoom slideshow of our ascent of North America Wall. We recorded the results and I thought you might enjoy it too. rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/20…
Cheers, Dom 

This was a wicked cool idea! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing, Dom. It was almost as good as being there!

I have a couple of questions:

1) Your partner mentioned a trick for avoiding the rope getting stuck in a roof crack (?). What was this trick?

2) Are you back-cleaning the better part of entire (traversing) pitches so your partner can take the swing and jug?  

Thanks again!
Julian

Julian Bigi wrote: Thank you for sharing, Dom. It was almost as good as being there!

I have a couple of questions:

1) Your partner mentioned a trick for avoiding the rope getting stuck in a roof crack (?). What was this trick?

Thanks Julian
You leave a big piece blocking the crack so that the rope can't get in. 

2) Are you back-cleaning the better part of entire (traversing) pitches so your partner can take the swing and jug?  

Yes, exactly. As it happens, the two biggest traverses on NAW (into the Black Dihedral and heading across The Cyclops Eye) are both followed by more straightforward vertical pitches, so linking them together and back-cleaning makes for less angle of swing and speedier progress (though a longer lower-out line than we carried might have made it less alarming!) 

Thanks Dom!

Those pitches must have been pretty wild, for both of you, then. Way to go!