San Luis Obispo based climber pulling the crux, 50 Crowded variation 5/7/2016

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San Luis Obispo based climber pulling the crux, 50 Crowded variation 5/7/2016

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Descent conditions as of April 08

Gokul, p4

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Greg White

May 23, 2016

“San Luis Obispo based climber pulling the crux, 50 Crowded variation 5/7/2016”

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Arin past the P5 bolt ladder on the cruiser 5.7 lieback.

Quinn Miller on the 10th pitch.

Great views.

The first rappel on a very long descent

Pitch 5. This is the crux pitch of the route, face climbing on tiny edges. It is tightly bolted. Done free, it is 10c. As a bolt ladder, it is 5.9 A0. When the FA'ers put up this nine-bolt ladder in 1954 it was the longest bolt ladder in the country.

In the Original Route's chimney. People on the now standard variation could hear us moaning and yelling obscenities for the hour or so it took us to get up this thing

Brendan about to lead ladder pitch

Topo of the new rap route on EBMC

A 17 year old TrundleBum following one of the upper "flared groove" pitches, Middle Cathedral, East Buttress.<br>
(what is this? action, personal or I guess it could even be 'Historic')

Gary Reno near the summit!

Randy with awesome exposure on one of the final pitches

Gokul, crux pitch

Looking down pitch 2 if I remember correctly.

View from the top, from the first few steps on the catwalk before going up the 4th class gully.

Looking up from the big ledge at the start of the route.

One of the last pitches

View of El Cap from the base of the first pitch. Worth the stroll up even if you're not doing the climb.

Lead climber from a party ahead of us free climbing the 10c section.

The top of the route.

Pitch 7: Fun 5.7 corner climbing.

Descent conditions as of April 08

San Luis Obispo based climber pulling the crux, 50 Crowded variation 5/7/2016

Gokul, p4

Having Fun on East Buttress

Looking down pitch 1.

Descent gully. A few rappels are involved.

The start of the descent gully.

Drew on the route.

Just before the crux section

Bolt ladder

Pitch 4: More 5.7 fun.

The view from the belay ledge below the bolt ladder/crux pitch.

Pitch 6 is a face traverse into the crack systems. Protection is sparse but there are a couple of pitons and medium cam (green, yellow, and red aliens) placements.

east buttress of middle cathedral

Pitch 10. Steep groove.

that's me on the east buttress circa 1985

Route Overlay East Buttress of Middle Cathedral.

Jesse

P10 (our P7). Head left shortly after you reach the small tree above to get to new rap route.

David belaying with the sun rising in the background.

Looking down at the 5th pitch variation going straight up over the roof. I didn't go left to the bolt ladder. Ooops. Scary.

Gokul, tired but in the home stretch

regular route chimney/offwidth

Always great exposure throughout the climb with great views

east butt mid cathedral

Chuck on one of the rappels on the descent.