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All Locations > California > Yosemite NP > Yosemite Valley > Valley N Side > El Capitan > Southwest Face > Nose (5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a C2)
at the top out tree. it took us two nights on the wall and a day prior to fix to sickle. (not my normal ascent style, but rewarding all the same.)
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Looking down from the belay at after the great roof.
Relazing on El Cap Tower
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Hans Florine
Oct 9, 2015
“at the top out tree. it took us two nights on the wall and a day prior to fix to sickle. (not my normal ascent style, but rewarding all the same.)”  

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