Needs no introduction!
Quote from: Adam Lincoln on November 29, 2010, 09:43:30 amNeeds no introduction!Just like the English ski-slope?
The pic there of the Salathe headwall makes you wonder about the first ascent. I guess it was inspected from long range but going off route does happen. Pretty lucky that crack is there!
Must be pretty scary if you haven't got a lot of same size cams!
Will, Salathe was first climbed as an aid route in the sixties, and the first free ascent of the Salathe took 7 days after 30 days of effort, I gues they had a lot of time to figure out where the route should go! http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/Yosemite-Valley-El-Capitan-Salathe-Wall
It's not as easy to back-clean 3/4" angles as it is to take out a red alien and plug it in again a few feet higher.
complete with accidental trundle of an enormous boulder at the end.
I reckon the crux there is probably getting your hands on a red alien. Why oh why did they have to stop being made.....
That rock looks very cool. Is it quartzite or sandstone? What crag is it?