Climbing Yosemite's Easiest BIG WALL | South Face of Washington Column

after a nice enjoyable morning at the captain yesterday we are going to pick a lap up the easiest wall in yosemite really get the c1 dialed he won't even have a jig like that we got a couple parties on the prowl it would appear one down here up there the white streak line that's right over here first pitch jake's time to lead and he's feeling fresh not tired on the first pitch someone left me the easiest booty of all time what thank you hey brian are you climbing yeah start of the second pitch getting up to dinner ledge in about 20 minutes maybe like 15 actually first time here pretty sweet splitter on pitch two got dinner ledge nice gallon jake's about to take on the infamous core roof he is clearing the core roof stupid spreader bar was stuck custom ladders damn oh sick cool roof just hit a bunch of lower outs on pitch five which could be starting up pitch six i bought you all that yes [Music] seek actually kind of a interesting aid sequence here like some some really pinned out angle scars have to use the offset i go left here right i think you go straight up really you want to take a peek from me there's a mandatory five seven move do you feel comfortable with that no you are me yeah yeah i'll take you [Music] big wall trash two hours in six out of ten pitches done it's time for brandt's breakfast snack of the rest of washington column i am hungry i must admit [Music] let's get this man some food asap oh [Laughter] well part of this is five seven the bit that i just passed okay oh okay i was like this is fails five seven this is a slow ass pitch a slow ass pitch there's a nut placed in a flare it was like not really my favorite top step option but don't look at it why in case it pops it's easier not to look at it easier to trust it then i like that maybe you should be teaching an aid climbing course how to climb t1 scheduling don't place one like that it is not what you want as far as placement goes [Music] [Music] okay we don't go far right another ledge and there's an anchor right there jake off belay whoever led that didn't place very much [Music] much cracked pin but we're gonna trust it good jogging dude i spy a haul bag you want me to put a micro on jake micros on smoothest piers that we found ourselves how's it going doing well how are you thanks two idiots move faster than one idiot maybe a little after six i'll be out of your way in one second you can go right into my anchor it won't by the time you guys probably get up here how many days you've been up here uh this is started day three nice consider it just it's camping to climbing yeah exactly what's your name jeremiah nice to meet you bobby nice to meet you too man nice oh yeah oh yeah all right to steep five six yeah so it's up three and a half yeah buddy another day another pretty fast wall one of the if not the most important part of going fast is trimming down weight i like to reduce the weight on my feet how fast these socks are jake likes to reduce weight by wearing a hat that's more like a net yeah i thought it was a good a great route i think as a beginner big wall route it'd be a challenge for sure after doing a big wall yesterday there's some faffing there's certainly some shenanigans got steep bolt ladders kind of tipped out placements and great positioning look at this look how much of a hero he looks like you could wrap it but we're gonna do the north dome gully and then all the way back down there to the lovely little awani so yesterday we got down eager to spray about our sick speed climbing stand of l-cap and lo and behold adam's hand is already there ham hold and then he has the nerve to start berating us about our wake-up times so i can confirm the wake-up time harassment because we got caught in the sun on a stacked 512 plus climb or whim so we don't wake up early enough so what did we do today we took adam's advice adam handhold ham hock early and i'm washing and calm in three hours i guess it does work though because now i'm like what else are we gonna do in all seriousness mr honold gave us great advice waking up early is a key tip in the valley and he also told us that we climbed lurking fear faster than him and his mom which made us feel a little bit better we were worried about that

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Length: 11min 56sec (716 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 09 2022