Monday, May 18, 2009

Alani Lollipop Jan Mclean

california 2 (el capitan)



we did it! 4 days, we have used to climb the NOSE. eingentlich it should be third but a lot of traffic in the route and our initial inexperience with the nachschlepperei (hauling) of the haul bag left us but then slow down. what was so much care, however, because actually it's all also about a good time to have in the wall. and we had!
speed record as of 2:38 Huberbuam of whether the stresses and strains can be a marvel then really.

it reads our work distribution as the business card of the THREE?

free climbing and bouldering: jugger marc
, haul and techno: armin



were to distribute the rope elongation also: armin was for the roof great and the changing corners in charge, I for the stoveleg cracks (of recent events renamed stuffleg cracks) and the pancake flake, the bolt texas flake (no chicken!) and really anything else that could be freely climb just fine.





and the nose is a free-climbing route! Unfortunately, like so much here in the valley only because of the many pin scars (holes that are left when you over years of time pure iron hook and again) rausdengelt

than in the early evening we reached the summit, it was already clear that the descent to the next and so on 5th tag was postponed.



this means the easiest descent at least 4 hours over steep descents towed flat and rough terrain, 4 and gebashe by gullies and forests.



reached the bottom we had to pick up the car from the parking lot at the entrance. during armin is prepared to resume talks I stayed with our gear. fortunately it was not long before I became a Mexican family picnic to end and pollo tortilla and invited homemade salsa. also got armin nor from his share.



with another 2 uebriggebliebenen pollo original pieces, we finally made our way to the camp. We passed a climber, the last of his just below the road had collapsed on the haul bag. It was Ueli Steck, who just had his wife with the route GOLDEN GATE mastered completely on-sight. We handed him the chicken out of the car and drove on. one can imagine the eyes, which makes one who has thought during the entire descent meat of nothing but a beautiful piece of ...

arminhelbach.de more pictures of us on and elcapreport.com (the guys with the orange rope ...)

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