New Speed Record on The Naked Edge
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44 minutes bridge to bridge!!!! |
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WOW! scott and brad...that is so cool! great work!!! i'm completely inspired...thanks for that! |
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Bravo! |
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Wouldn't a soloist have the speed record? |
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Not a soloist K Weber. Presumably Scott Bennett and Brad Gobright (as stated above)... but I don't know that for sure. Good on ya boys, thoroughly impressive |
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Record ?? The Edge is releasing new stuff on vinyl ?? 44 min. bridge to bridge would be an epic album !! |
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I witnessed this from the top of the Bastille, very impressive. As our party of three watched I asked "I wonder if they're going for the speed record?" the whoops and hoots at the bridge and from the finish of the edge were answer enough. Very cool to see this done, and in January no less! And I think Scott was then part of a party that free soloed the Bastille in a mellow 7 minutes or so. |
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Update: |
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good vid and writeup here: billwright510climbing.blogs… |
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Amazing effort! Thanks for sharing. |
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Scott Bennett wrote:Update: Stefan Griebel and Jason Wells retook the record yesterday with an INSANE time of 35 minutes and 1 second, bridge-to-bridge. Mega!!!Holy jiminy crickets!!!! |
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I could only hope to have my systems dialed 1/100th of that ability. |
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Jason, Way to make the rest of us look slow and weak. Takes me that long to rack up and put my shoes on at the base of the thing. Nicely done! Steve Sangdahl |
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Strong work guys! |
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Jeez that's a lot of fixed gear... |
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Yeah, lots of fixed stuff at the moment. 3 fixed cams, 2 wires, a handful of pins, and one slung block. Not all of it's good, but it does certainly help in doing the route quickly. |
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Holy smokes, Scott and Brad absolutely crushed the record again tonight: 29m53s bridge-to-bridge!!! It officially goes faster than the 1st Flatiron. |
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Mike Grimm and I went up to do the Edge onsight in Summer 1992 and two young guys were already at the base of P1 getting ready to start and asked if we minded if they went ahead and climbed in front of us, adding "We'll hurry." We knew we'd probably take hours so we said sure, go ahead. They had a very light selected rack and a very long rope and the first guy ran it to the P2 belay in a few minutes then the second started moving up P1, also very fast. When he reached the P1 belay the leader started moving again and they simoed to the top of P3, reracked and traded the lead. Mike and me started up then, amazed. Plus, we knew everyone in the canyon was watching the Edge by now so we wanted to do a solid job. We flashed up P1 in pretty good time, and I remember looking up from the belay and seeing the second of the party ahead already disappearing from view above the last crux. A few minutes later a big wind blew up in advance of a thunderstorm and Mike and I got weathered off and took cover in the little cave but left our rope hanging just in case. The guys in front of us were already hooting and hollering on top. We didn't check the watch but I'd be surprised if they took more than 20-25 minutes to climb the entire route and they were laughing the whole way. I imagine the rain made it tough to break a bridge-to-bridge record but I never saw any team climb it faster. Anybody know how long it took Jimmy Collins free-solo? |
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Wow! That's insane. Nice work. |
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K Weber wrote:Wouldn't a soloist have the speed record? Who is it?Generally no, on harder climbs. On easier climbs, yes, but when the going gets thin and a mistake = death, you can move much faster simul than you can unroped... |
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Ran into brad at Movement about 2 weeks ago and asked him if they were gonna give another effort at the record... guess i have my answer now! Blazin! |