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Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 19, 2011, 09:49:30 pm
Hazel's just put on crackbook she's done Golden Gate. Pretty impressive!

How many brits have freed El Cap?
Leo - at least 2- (El Nino & Prophet) did he ever do Freerider?,
Bransby - twice but same route (Freerider),
errrr anyone else?

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#1 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 19, 2011, 09:53:42 pm
Cool. 3 x 5.13 pitches and 5ish @ 5.12 from memory?

Toby Dunn Freerider? Heap/Bentley?

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#2 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 19, 2011, 09:56:56 pm
Pretty sure Heap and Bentley failed quite publically didn't they? Unless they went back without the cameras...

That's a good effort by Toby too!

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#3 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 19, 2011, 10:18:10 pm

How many brits have freed El Cap?
Leo - at least 2- (El Nino & Prophet) did he ever do Freerider

Leo did Freerider with one fall in 2005.  El Cap. has still not been onsighted.

Caff and Adam Hocking were / are also up on Golden Gate. Any idea how they are getting on?

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#4 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 19, 2011, 10:27:39 pm
a cam 5 hit Hock on Golden Gate and knocked him out and caff had to get him down. Dunno what they'v been up to since. And what about Mawson, how's he getting on?

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#5 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 19, 2011, 11:40:57 pm
Shit the bed, is Hock ok? I no longer have my farcebook active, otherwise I'd have got in touch with him

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#6 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 20, 2011, 05:23:19 am
this is Hazel on Hock's computer - just to let you know that he's OK, just looked bad at the time and was obviously a good idea to come down since he was bleeding all over the monster, pretty unlucky for the two of them.

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#7 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 20, 2011, 09:09:25 am
Ouch! And Hazel:  :bow:


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#8 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 20, 2011, 09:29:43 am
Nice work Duma.

Not much relevant on Tom Evans' El Cap Report, though he does mention Golden Gate has been busy. I guess his usual spot on the bridge doesn't give the best views of that section. Could be some brits in this pic?


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#9 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 20, 2011, 09:34:44 am
isn't this just amazing?! what a great effort. hope the brits out there get more stuff done too.

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#10 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 20, 2011, 09:50:15 am
Fantastic effort.

And get well soon Hock.

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#11 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 20, 2011, 06:53:12 pm
Thanks for the update Hazel, and good effort as well!

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#12 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 20, 2011, 09:47:26 pm
Great effort from Hazel. 

A list of El Cap free ascents… - includes most things up to a few years ago with lots of detail...
http://www.stanford.edu/~clint/yos/longhf.htm

But in terms of Brits, the list is pretty short…  To point out the obvious, loads will have climbed stuff like the West Face and Free Blast.  But as for the proper routes on the main section, then yeah, think its just:

Freerider:  Leo, Bransby.
The Prophet: Leo with Jason
El Nino: Leo with Patch
And now Hazel on Golden Gate

Then there’s Leo’s sort of free route: The Passage To Freedom - 7 pitches up to El Cap Tower (the one with the aid point dynoing off the Alfa badge…)

And as Duncan said, an onsight still hasn’t happened on any of the main El Cap routes.  Ueli Steck probably came closest – taking just one fall on a wet 5.11 pitch on Golden Gate…  in between running up North faces…

Also on the El Cap front, just came across this copy of a Rock & Ice article by Leo on The Prophet – it’s a good read…
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1634712/Leo-Houlding-Jason-Pickles-on-The-Prophet

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#13 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 10:45:02 am
Hazel--->Wad---> :clap2:---> :bow:

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#14 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 11:35:11 am

But in terms of Brits, the list is pretty short…  To point out the obvious, loads will have climbed stuff like the West Face and Free Blast.  But as for the proper routes on the main section, then yeah, think its just:

Freerider:  Leo, Bransby.
The Prophet: Leo with Jason
El Nino: Leo with Patch
And now Hazel on Golden Gate


I wouldn't be surprised if a few others had done Freerider (I mentioned one person abovewho has).

Still, thinking about it, it is interesting how little action there is from Brits on El Cap. I guess it's pretty expensive in this day and age for folks to go over there...


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#15 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 12:12:32 pm
Awesome effort. Theres been a lot of female action on El cap this year, what with Mayan freeing the salathe and getting the female record for freerider, the new female speed record for the Nose, my GF becoming the first Irish person (male or female we think) to aid solo an el cap route, and now this. Top class!

Still, thinking about it, it is interesting how little action there is from Brits on El Cap. I guess it's pretty expensive in this day and age for folks to go over there...

I spent 3 weeks out there at the end of the summer on funds harvested from 2 months paychecks, and I'm not in a particularly high paid job. Where theres a will....

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#16 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 12:41:43 pm
my GF becoming the first Irish person (male or female we think) to aid solo an el cap route, and now this. Top class!

ex? Must be hard to do, especially hauling that 20l bottle of sunblock!

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#17 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 12:49:05 pm
my GF becoming the first Irish person (male or female we think) to aid solo an el cap route, and now this. Top class!

ex? Must be hard to do, especially hauling that 20l bottle of sunblock!

Good memory!

We patched it up thankfully. Had to have a big bust up and hash some stuff out. Was emotional rollercoaster central for a while though. And I'm heading for BC in February (from what everone said, Farnbourough just sounded too miserable), so all the stuff on the other thread got resolved in the end  :) Very stressful though!

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#18 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 01:33:33 pm
And there was me still feeling sorry for you. You fucker :0)

Still at least you got some things sorted out, had a good drinking session, and found out Farnborough is a shithole.

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#19 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 01:49:04 pm
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I wouldn't be surprised if a few others had done Freerider (I mentioned one person abovewho has)

He definitely went back for the redpoint then? I daresay a lot have tried it, but doing an ascent that conforms to valley ethics is a fair bit tougher.

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#20 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 08:36:59 pm
As JB said, a few more have probably tried - but not heard of any others actually freeing Freerider – even without worrying about strict ethics?  Suppose some folks may have just done it on the quiet though?

Account of Toby’s ascent is here:
http://www.planetfear.com/articles/Freerider_A_Yosemite_Legend__1031.html

Basically, they freed most of it but then aided up the Salathe headwall rather than taking the Freerider variation.  Then again, he may have been back since?
« Last Edit: October 21, 2011, 08:43:52 pm by Nemo »

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#21 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 21, 2011, 09:02:58 pm
It is surprising not many Brit's have free climbed El Cap and it makes Hazel's achievement all the more impressive.

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#22 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 23, 2011, 08:12:58 pm
Crackbook update from her blog says she did The Book of Hate (5.13d stemming nightmare) third try today, as did Caff.  :clap2:

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#23 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 25, 2011, 01:34:11 pm

Also on the El Cap front, just came across this copy of a Rock & Ice article by Leo on The Prophet – it’s a good read…
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1634712/Leo-Houlding-Jason-Pickles-on-The-Prophet

That's the first time I've seen that article. First class.

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#24 Re: Hazel Findlay climbs Golden Gate
October 25, 2011, 06:16:18 pm
best achievement by a British female? Does it top Lucy Creamer's 8b+?

 

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